@yochaigal the list of blog posts I’m following has this disclaimer at the top:
some of these bloggers (especially early on) have shown themselves to be hurtful people, at least insofar as they are vocally sexist, racist, homophobic, and/or transphobic. I have included blog posts by these individuals to provide an accurate view of the play style’s historical development, but I disavow any harmful or destructive views expressed elsewhere by those individuals, speaking as a queer woman and a communist. So, you know. Caveat emptor
I know who some of those people are but clearly not all, given our interaction over on the latest post.
Can you suggest a way I can proceed with this project without causing problems for the RPG cauldron?
I’m not a fan of public lists. They only lead to problems. My suggestion is to just move on when someone points out a particular author is bad. It isn’t a big deal, I just assume everyone knows.
If I were that blogger I simply wouldn’t include them.
So would you suggest we stop the current discussion about Melan diagrams and move on to the next blog post? I would like to keep taking about dungeon design if possible.
The problem I have is that I wasn’t involved with the OSR blogosphere then and I have no idea who among the bloggers turned out to be problematic. I’d greatly appreciate it if somebody would clue me in, as I’d rather not spend time or money on people I can’t in good conscience support.
I think you can substitute the Alexandrians’ Jaquaysing the Dungeon (or whatever bullshit he decided to call it now) posts for the discussion of Melan’s diagrams without any loss of content.
I will keep this list of blog club posts up to date as the weeks pass. Yochai has kindly given me forum permissions to keep editing this post beyond the usual deadline.
