Shrine of the Nephilim

 Getting sick and tired of being called a 'groomer' or worse by the right, because we're pro-LGBT. Listen. It isn't about sex. Conservatives are the ones dragging sex into this. It was never about sex. It's about identity . A kid who's five years old decides they like girls. Is that about sex? No. It's about the idea that they like girls . That is all it is. When we were six? We had a crush on the Invisible Woman, Sue Storm. We saw her in a Spider-Man comic, and she seemed nice, and nurturing. She was shown to be a good and caring mother, and we decided at that point we "liked" her. We didn't have a fucking clue what sex was. Sex wasn't even in the picture. (By the by, before you start guessing our gender -- the answer is "yes". Our gender is "yes".) Being a lesbian doesn't have anything to do with sex when you're a kid. That isn't on the radar. It just means you "like" girls more than you "lik...

Everything is Political. Doubly so if you're writing an RPG set in modern times. We mean, if you're going to look at the international stage as part of the setting, how can you not get politics involved? Case in point. You're writing a superhero game. It's set in 2024. Superheroes are showing up now . And you want to address how this reshapes the world, how it impacts nations, how it changes the balance of power, how governments have to shift to adapt to this new reality. There's two major wars going on. You've got the Paris Olympics. And you've got this huge influx of people with supernatural powers. How do you not talk about the elephants in the room? "And this is how the nations of North America and the EU are affected." "How about Russia and Ukraine?" ".... so, Africa..." Of course, you could lay out a 2024 where nothing of import is happening, and the super beings that show up have little or no impact on national events (lo...

"And there I was..." Alright, we aim to offend. What's wrong with this picture?  Nothing.  That's what's wrong with it. But some people are having serious difficulty with this picture. "There's sushi!" "There's tacos!" "This doesn't inspire to adventure!" Know what that's called? A lack of imagination. You see... sushi was around during the Tokugawa Shogunate. Tacos are even older than that. Neither of these things are "modern". The complaint is that it's ethnic food. Oh, but hey, there's pumpkin there.  But that's Western food and that's okay, even though that's from the New World.  Bet they won't complain about corn or potatoes, either. Which is why we're calling Bullshit on this. They don't like it because it's not European / Western Fantasy. And the complaint that the picture doesn't inspire adventure? Listen, peeps. What do your characters do between adventures? Kn...