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But on the other hand, PbtA has become the shitty, SJW OGL of gaming. Every single game you find is generally the same premise, with the descriptions changed 'When you want to go aggro' becomes 'When you want to do a cringeworthy assault that leaves your enemies in the dust...') but is also picked up by the mainstream Twitter circle jerks for self-promotion. I've seen OSR making little footnotes, but even then, the few I see which really get pushed are immensely ruleslite (Mork Borg) which are picked up by mainstream media because 'Swedish roleplaying game'.

Even the games which are pretty good (Blades in the Dark, Apocalypse World I'm not a fan of, but it's kinda' cute design-wise) are not the issue themselves, but these major OGLs are now the gatekeepers to gaming. Blades in the Dark never touched the 'muh gender' stuff directly, or ever mentioned it, but you won't find a single Forged in the Dark game (Scum and Villainy, which I'm pretty sure is written by a troon), Girl by Moonlight (multiple games about being magical girls. Based around 'who you are, what you believe and the power of relationships and community against an oppress society) which doesn't contain this stuff to the hilt.

Twitter is how these things are going to advertise. These are then picked up by CritRoles, which have to toe the line to not get removed, which then become the advertisement, while other indie games will get left in the dirt. Writing a Kickstarter game about troons in PbtA fighting penguins will not only be signal boosted within the community (as they all fund each other), but if you're lucky, picked up by Twitter and pushed further and with the low effort artwork needed? All you need is some basic writing, some rules made by copy-pasting OGL and you're sorted.

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