Hey now, let's not reduce him to his being a self-proclaimed "biological determinist" on gender.
He also quoted/referenced racists for his stances. (E.g. "Nits make lice" from Chivington, who killed Cheyenne people indiscriminately, gygaxed as a justification for why its lawfully good to kill orc babies https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/dtpgim/gygax_on_lawful_good/ )
To be fair, 80% of the campaign consisted of the GM going "yeah, that sounds cool, let's go with it". When the players noticed, they took it to the extreme and described how they one-shotted the Borg Collective and insta-ported themselves back home. And got away with it.
Janeway keeping track of her torpedoes about as well as most tabletop players keep track of how many times I tell them to stay off their phones during the game...and to not metagame...
This is your periodic reminder that Gary Gygax was a sexist garbage fire of a man, even for the 1980s.
ha I went down the "did Gary Gygax play Neelix" path. No he's just in the first frame of this meme.
Lol thank you. I recognized the name, but in context i also wondered if he was Neelix
That e doing a lotta work I don't think you want it doingDamn you autocorrect! (For posterity, it said “sexiest”)
Hey now, let's not reduce him to his being a self-proclaimed "biological determinist" on gender.
He also quoted/referenced racists for his stances. (E.g. "Nits make lice" from Chivington, who killed Cheyenne people indiscriminately, gygaxed as a justification for why its lawfully good to kill orc babies https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/dtpgim/gygax_on_lawful_good/ )
It's fantasy ethics, you can make up whatever you w...
Except for that one
Link?
It’s not exactly a secret. The man was openly and proudly sexist until the day he died.
I’m sure you can figure it out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MenAndFemales/comments/11x0pj4/ladies_and_gentlemen_gary_gygax_cocreator_of/
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