ENNIE award-winning tabletop RPG developer and horror author. Scottish trans punk fae. Gundam Builder.
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This is what I talk about when I say that there is a division in the TTRPG hobby, because 5e players HAVE experienced their own distinct worlds - it's just that the worlds they've experienced are made by podcasters and actual plays, not the games themselves.
I'm not an artistic person, but I've been doodling of a goth-punk raven girl in the last few months, so I decided to try learning (which involves tracing from actual comic book artists!) But I've been able to get a series of her as various Vampire the Masquerade clans. This is her as a Tzimisce.
Oh gosh I wonder why that would be.....
My generation loved Ravenloft and Krynn, they grew up with Critical Role and League of Legends. Our worlds were custom designed for the games to be played in, theirs were designed for other sources of media and then imported.
Was our generations, therefore, 'better' or superior in some way?
Yes.
I mean, imagine you're Billie now.
You were approached last year to do a quick cameo. You agree.
Now your face is plastered all over the internet inseparably connected to RTD's dishonesty and lack of transparency. You're the face of that.
That's a fucking horrible thing he did to her.
I mean... it just goes to show that Christopher Eccleston was right about everything he has ever said, ever.
Should there be penalties for creatives whose work causes demonstrable harm to a brand?
Discuss.
So a lot of the Twitter type of people tend to rant about the writers of this-and-that show 'not respecting the viewers' and it's a load of nonsense - but when the lead writer of a show outright tells people that he'd just been outright lying to them, you really have to wonder what that says....
Not only is it not - this is. And isn't that tragic.
But really, I just feel so sorry for Billie Piper. It's her face that's going to become synonymous with all of this weird fucked-up attempt from RTD to say "Keep me on the show or I'll leave THIS for the next showrunner to clean up."
And I'll go one further.
Billie was used, like an object - a bargaining chip. RTD was saying "You keep me on the show, or the next person either has to resolve THIS, or go complete ground-up reboot, and you know how the fans will treat that."
Men using women as objects and tools for themselves.
