Saturday, August 10, 2024

Rant: Shadowdark Wins All the Ennies

I really didn't want to ever have to talk about this fucking game again, per my review.  Joke's on me that the incel simp ratio of the hobby hasn't decreased with the radical inclusion of normies since 2015.  If anything it's increased.  If this is what happens when someone with a vagina who is moderately fuckable produces something in this hobby, I'd perish to think what would happen if Scarlet Johansson created a RPG.  It probably would kill D&D overnight in spite of being similar half-baked trash.

Much like when Mork Borg took home Ennies, this really only reflects how bad the Ennies have become.  How an Ennie is attained is entirely political, just like Oscars.  What happens is, if you're a creator and want your product in contention, you have to send multiple copies of it to all the judges.  If you want it to win, you include greenback book marks within them.  Real small press can't actually afford this, so they never win.  Instead you get corporately backed Mork Bork and million dollar baby Dark Fark.  

So, new decree.  If you win Ennies, you're no longer in the OSR.  That means ShadowDark is double not in the OSR.  We don't want it, it's fucking stupid, the Ennie judges can fucking keep it.