A Rallying Cry of Envious Cowards

Really quick: if you want something similar to Dungeons & Dragons, but which focuses on fun, usability, and quality—yet isn't grossly overpriced—as opposed to social justice progressive politics, propaganda, and irrational, obsessive hatred over mere disagreements and arbitrary thought crime violations, check out Dungeons & Delvers.

Someone posted this image over on a rare D&D-oriented Facebook group that isn't run by power-hungry, intellectually bankrupt woke-folk, meaning that they won't silence you for mere disagreement:

Good thing, because it looks like the team behind Dark Sun 2: Defiler Bugaloo caved to NPCs, and greatly pruned the half-giant description. I wasn't planning on backing it, not that much of a Dark Sun fan (and I have the classic campaign setting somewhere if I really wanted to play it), but it's still a bit disappointing.

It's also a bad move, because once SJWs smell blood they double down. They are only satisfied with your complete subservience, or getting you "canceled". Now, getting canceled can mean you're removed from one, more, or all platforms, but the ideal end result is getting you to, well, end yourself.

They're still glad Burning Star Games acquiesced to their absurd demands, not because imaginary races being slaves in a game is an actual issue at any level beyond the context of the game's imagined world. No, it was merely a stepping stone, a way for them to test the waters, to see if Burning Star Games would stand or kneel.

They chose the latter, so now the NPCs are going to push harder, make even more, increasingly insane demands. They'll dig around, looking for any and all ammunition they can use, with the ultimate goal being for the Red Dawn Kickstarter campaign to be canceled—one way or another—and for everyone at Burning Star Games to just give up, and walk away from the hobby entirely.

And if they can get someone at Burning Star Games to kill themselves? Well, that'll be a feather in their fedora.

So, what should Burning Star Games have done? For starters, ignore them. NPCs have short attention spans. They also need attention, almost as much as they need chicken tendies, hand delivered by disappointed parents. Ignore them, they whine, lie, scream into the abyssal echo-chambers they deserve to wallow in, but eventually begin the hunt anew, hopefully stumbling across a more responsive target.

Now, if you want to hit back, actually work to solve the issue? Mock them. It's not hard, they have the thinnest skin you could possibly imagine, and there's so much to work with: make fun of their pronouns, gender identity, appearance. If they create anything that could generously be described as content? Mock that, too. It's always lazy, derivative trash, with the lowest quality Tumblr-grade art (when they bother to include art at all).

Case in point, whoever queried the "have we" question is an attention-starved coward without any individuality. You know, the perfect NPC. Too craven to act on his own, he wants to know: is it "okay" to go after these guys? Has anyone already did it?

Mind you, he's more than happy to arbitrarily hurl neutered -ists and -isms. After all, it's what he's programmed to do, but he wants to know if he's got backup. Or, if there's already a mob he can attach himself to, a group he can observe, see how it's going before he jumps in.

This is also why he has that virtue-signaling portrait flair, broadcasting that he got an untested, rushed, experimental gene therapy shot. He's a good person, right? He went along and got an injection with unknown efficacy—which is increasingly dwindling, surprise surprise; better get those definitely useful and safe boosters—or long-term side effects. 

It's not about doing or standing up for what you believe in. NPCs don't possess anything resembling, among many other things, integrity and moral character. It's about seeing which way the political wind is blowing, what they believe will garner them the most attention and praise, however fleeting and worthless, for the least amount of effort.

They're opportunistic grifters bereft of responsibility and purpose. They are everything they pretend to hate. Burning Star Games should apologize to the fans, the customers, and go with their original text. And, if anything really emphasize the slavery angle. It's just a game, after all. No one is harmed. Plus, racist NPCs aren't going to buy what they are selling. Hell, I'm not going to, but Dark Sun fans might, and that setting had slavery.

So, don't water it down, especially not for those just looking for any and every excuse to hate you. Embrace it, and tell them to fuck off. You'll get way more fans that way, if for no other reason than you actually stood up against pathetic internet bullies. Not a high or meaningful hurdle to overcome, I know, but it's more than most companies and individuals are doing.

Though Dungeons & Delvers doesn't feature slavery by default, we did get criticism for having too many attractive women in the art (which is to say, any at all). So, of course, the only logical course of action was to double-down and keep running with it. Even went out of our way to sexualize some of the monsters.