The Culture: When The Deep Lore Drops

Daddy Warpig passed on some Deep Lore yesterday.

Dragonlance: Great for fiction, terrible for TTRPG gaming.

But it COULD have been legit awesome.

Instead of a series of modules following the novels’ storyline, you could have used the classic AD&D rules to allow the DM’s to run their own campaigns in the War of the Lance.… https://t.co/FkjteoFYgI

— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) August 26, 2024

What Roger "Not The Bond Guy" Moore revealed is that even in the 1980s it was known that the majority of women (and feminized men, by extension) cannot handle the Real Hobby because it triggers fundamental psychological traits that short-circuit rational thought. Literally this meme:

Not that Roger talked about the books being the breakthrough.

What is the common reader pattern for female readers, such that "Harlequin Romance" is notorious for being MadLibs For Chicks? One Good Girl (for the reader to self-insert with, which is why she is barely defined and in the most generic terms possible) with either two men to choose from or one to fix (and in DL we get both) and one Bad Bitch (for contrast for the reader to see as Bad and comes to a Bad End).

Add in a child-like figure (fucking Kender) and you have Fantasy For Females For Dummies in the bag.

"But that's unfair!"

No, this is how it is and every fucking thing with significant female audiences has it.

This is incompatible with proper hobby play, women know it's not (Revealed Preferences Are Revealed), and that's why trying to go after populations that scream DO NOT WANT! is a waste of time at best and at worst deliberate sabotage.

If Ken St. Andre invented Conventional Play, then Moore (et. al.) are the folks who turned it into a Brand Cult to maximize Consumerism (itself a female-driven thing).

Both need to die for the hobby to survive, and both of them will- and are.