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Post Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:25 am 
 

JasonZavoda wrote in LotFP:I don't think the Zak thing was political at all. My understanding was that it was a dangerous sexual lifestyle and direct accusations of abuse. I hadnt heard of any exoneration but I havent been following the story.


His lifestyle and past employment were common knowledge. He talked and posted about them openly on his blog, on YouTube and on other broadcast channels.
He was employed as a consultant by WoTC on the development of 5E, and he contributed widely to a number of publishers as both an artist and a writer.

But, it seems as though an allegation is made, with no evidence being offered, and no further investigation, and there are posts all over the RPG social media condemning him, and statements from major companies stating how they will not pay him any money, they will not sell any of his products, and they will never deal with products that even have him as a consultant. There is hysteria online about this evil influence on the community, and one troll, after ten years of campaigning against him, posted an silent public apology online as part of a plea agreement and settled with him out of court for this ongoing campaign of slander.

Yes, he went after one of the main antagonists of the cancel culture, but he will never publish again or be credited for his work in the RPG space, and it seems as though the one person who was willing to say, hang on, I'm not working with him, but this is getting way out of order, has also lost his publishing house.

That is leftist millennial politics in a nutshell. If it had been Cavanagh more sensible heads would have prevailed, but we don't all have the political backing to defend ourselves against the cancel culture mob. Where was the flurry of e-mails to RPGDriveTru complaining about their actions? Were were the rebuttals and statements of defence, or the requests for evidence to back up peoples' claims?

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All that aside, now that we know that the majority of this was a campaign of trolling and baseless lying by people online, why do we not see those affected by it back in the game space?

Is it because of the lack of trust or what?


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Post Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:35 am 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:New info on FFV....
On the ZakS thing. Am I right in understanding ZakS was accused, then the whole US Cancel Culture machine kicked in with companies running to hide just in case people thought they were promoting such things (including RPGDriveThru and LotFP), and then at some point JERIII said, 'Enough is enough, I won't work with him but I'm not going to exclude him on Facebook so long as he behaves and doesn't talk about it." That effectively being the death knell for LotFP because he wouldn't back the Cancel Culture Vultures. Was there ever a case? Was there ever any evidence? Or was this just left wing millennial snowflakes doing what left wing snowflakes do. Acting like ar$eholes. I've dug and I cannot find any evidence that any of this is anything other than mass hysteria and slander (and an admission of guilt and a payment appear to have been made to ZakS for just that.) Anyways, seems LotFP did not understand that when children (under 25s who have not grown up yet) say to hate you must hate or lose your livelihood. He did not understand fascism. I'm sure he does now.

It'll be interesting to see where JERIII resurfaces.


It appears LotFP is operating normally, his webstore looks to be up and running with no restrictions. So how exactly is he experiencing fascism? Losing customers as a result of your actions is not fascism. You are free to continue to support his business, or you are free to support other creators and publishers, as most have chosen to do.

  

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Post Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:41 pm 
 

I suppose the dramatic drop off in production could be explained as 'because Covid', and I suppose if you get on the wrong side of the mob, it's not like you didn't know what you were getting into to, and you only have yourself to blame. So companies were acting in their own best interests, lest they suffer at the hands of the mob too.

By that same logic though, a policeman who is hung out to dry knew what he was getting into in an arrest scenario, and a shop owner knows what he's getting into when he sets up a business. They are all notches on the same wedge of the mob deciding who should be punished based on their own judgement without evidence. If we sit back and accept the thin end of the wedge, it only then needs to be pushed and we can all live happily ever after in a socialist utopia where the people know best.


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Post Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:07 am 
 

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Post Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:19 am 
 

Well that tells me the PDF is not the same as the hardcopy. Different layout. So for PDF collectors, its a lot cheaper, but you may be missing stuff if you don't collect hardcopies (and also your PDFs don't go up in value. PDFs are consumables. Real products are collectables, especially when the print runs are small.


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Ok, i know this as one of the best "recent" products... But i remember going for 100-150 bucks in the recent past... Now? What has happened?


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Post Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:46 am 
 

No idea.
It's available PoD, so unless the two bookmarks denote the special super-duper kickstarter limited edition with the shit mapwork that no-one could use which was why they had to re-do the maps and republish, I have no idea. I'm guessing this is a genuine early car crash edition and not the generally available PoD version. As a piece of atmospheric gameplay, it is pretty well written IMO, and something I dip into from time to time.


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Post Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:18 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:I suppose the dramatic drop off in production could be explained as 'because Covid', and I suppose if you get on the wrong side of the mob, it's not like you didn't know what you were getting into to, and you only have yourself to blame. So companies were acting in their own best interests, lest they suffer at the hands of the mob too.

By that same logic though, a policeman who is hung out to dry knew what he was getting into in an arrest scenario, and a shop owner knows what he's getting into when he sets up a business. They are all notches on the same wedge of the mob deciding who should be punished based on their own judgement without evidence. If we sit back and accept the thin end of the wedge, it only then needs to be pushed and we can all live happily ever after in a socialist utopia where the people know best.


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Post Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:17 am 
 


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Ok, it is a nice module, worth to be owned and played... But is there any reason for this bid war? Afaik there is a limited edition with a variant cover and it is not this case...


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Post Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:16 am 
 

I don't see a ton of those pop up lately. It seems like it's getting harder to find. It had a decent size print run but rumor at the time was a lot of shops were either destroying them or hiding them behind the counter so who knows how many actually made it to circulation.

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Post Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 12:28 am 
 

Ok price is high but you do not see it that often and in good conditions as this one:


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Post Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 2:37 pm 
 

That seems to be the last in the series, but not on DrivethruRPG. Anyone know if LotFP are still selling hardcopies?


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Post Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 2:47 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:That seems to be the last in the series, but not on DrivethruRPG. Anyone know if LotFP are still selling hardcopies?


He's a guest at North Texas RPG Con set to happen in a few weeks, and I understand he'll have a booth (for sales).  I'm imagining hard copies, but I don't know what he's selling or if my memory is correct.  I was able to join one of his games, so hopefully I'll remember to inquire if a booth was only a figment of my imagination.   8)


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Post Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 4:20 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in LotFP:That seems to be the last in the series, but not on DrivethruRPG. Anyone know if LotFP are still selling hardcopies?

I know they were selling physical products at Gen Con last year (hard/softcovers).

They have their online stores too:

LotFP US Webstore

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Typically a purchase comes with a physical and PDF version.

  


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Post Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 4:10 pm 
 

benjoshua wrote in LotFP:
He's a guest at North Texas RPG Con set to happen in a few weeks, and I understand he'll have a booth (for sales).  I'm imagining hard copies, but I don't know what he's selling or if my memory is correct.  I was able to join one of his games, so hopefully I'll remember to inquire if a booth was only a figment of my imagination.   8)


This past Saturday at NTRPG benjoshua and I played in a LotFP game run by Raggi himself. He did have a dealer table full of printed modules and rulebooks in the main dealer area. This was my first time playing LotFP and I don't have much comment on the ruleset but Raggi ran a very creative and vividly described adventure for us. Unfortunately I had to miss the last 30 minutes as there was a slight overlap with the auction. I did stop by his table Sunday to apologize for having to leave early and I picked up the core rulebook from him, it was the last core rulebook he had brought for sale (9th printing/3000 copies print run if anybody is curious about where he is at) and the stacks of his adventures books seemed pretty depleted from when I had walked by earlier in the Con.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:34 am 
 

I also had a great time in his game.   I was able to pick up some of his products for sale. Not included in this photo is an additional copy of Scenic Dunnsmouth that I bought for my son Joshua.

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