angelfromanotherpin wrote:I considered nominating Apocalypse World, because while all the games presented have toxic content, Apocalypse World actively encourages toxic and abusive behavior between the GM and the players.
But *World can't be the worst RPG, because it is not a G at all.
See, unlike say, Fiasco, *World totally IS an RPG. It's just actively fucking terrible.
It's offensive on a different level than the FATAL level (weird, gross, racist, and sexist) or the RAHOWA level (super grossly racist, good catch on whoever caught those hilarious implications about the fact that the "perfidious kikes" or whatever can roflstomp PCs by RAW), it's offensive on the "really really really really fucking bad but even more popular than it is bad level" where it spins off dozens and dozens of terrible copies.
Dungeon World
Monster Hearts
Urban Shadows
Epyllion
Masks
Every other pile of shit made by the actual (figurative) retards (no offense to actual actual retards or to anyone who is developmentally disabled to to anyone whose loved ones might be developmentally disabled, etcetera) at Magpie Games. Because every single one of their highly profitable Dickfarters is "powered by the apocalypse".
Everytime one of these shitsmears makes a game that is "Powered by Quantum Bears" I feel like the little baby jesus cries, someone murders a kitten, etcetera, because here is an opportunity for somebody to actually attempt game design and fucking learn from it, even if the initial result is just a crappy forgettable "whatever heartbreaker", like, at least you ATTEMPTED to design your own game dude, good for you, you probably learned something.
But everyone decides--not unwisely, don't get me wrong-- to suckle from the geyser of cash flowing freely out of D. Vincent Baker's butthole instead. Then you have people like silva who genuinely unironically believe that "*World" is the "greatest roleplaying game" ever made who I almost think need to be like...reeducated,
Clockwork Orange style. For the record, I am not saying that.
*World is the goddamned
Twilight of goddamned games. The PbtA--which, ironically, phonetically sounds like a raspberry you would blow at someone like me who was already obviously furious to make them even more furious--bubble cannot fucking pop soon enough.
And so on:
Like
Twilight, as I already mentioned.
Or
50 Shades of Grey.
Or I'm going to go there and say it despite its ubiquitous belovement by nerds of all ages, because it's the trope originator for "objective badness exceeded only by its enormous popularity"--and yes it's gonna alienate a lot of people--and for the record I actually really like Stephen King and think he's a very good writer so the fact that he really likes this dismays me:
Or
Harry Potter.
*retreats for a while*
