Re: [HOE] Gamers Beware! A word of warning!!!

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 12:55  AM, Kai Tave wrote:

> Why would the anti-RPG folks be waiting for Demon to get their groove 
> on?
> What, White Wolf's OTHER product lines aren't controversial enough?
> Be a vampire!  Drink the blood of others and be damned by God!  Be a 
> mage!
> Practice magic, consort with spirits, and defy God's will!  Hell, be a 
> Nova!
> Create your own universe and play God yourself!

There's also an important thing to consider: what DOESN'T get protested 
today? Halloween has, in the last decade or so, gone from a tradition 
for children (in the US and other areas, at least) to an event that is 
litigated over, argued about, and the subject of massive scrutiny. I'm 
pretty a-religious (my policy: your religion is generally none of my 
business as long as you aren't committing crimes like sacrificing 
people!) but I've heard of churches getting in trouble about 
fundraising events and similar. When I lived in Virginia a few years 
back, Disney got fought so hard on plans to build a new park in the 
Virginia area they abandoned (or relocated) the plan.

Nothing is immune from a group of protesters. Like pop-up ads on the 
web, no one really pays attention to them anymore, though.

> So, any protestors that Demon might drag out of the woodwork are 
> already
> about ten years or so behind the bandwagon.  I seriously doubt that 
> this is
> going to even show up on the radar, let alone be a significant blip.

Yup. However, if anyone knows that pro-RPG propaganda site a guy was 
runing, it'd be a good time to post the link.

Oh... and for the record, I think D:tF may end up being a flop (by 
WHite Wolf/WOD standards, which means the core sells quite well) simply 
because most of the WW fans I know have gotten burned by poorly 
supported game lines and regular product line churning.