Pundit is the Darkest Part of RPGs, Apparently

I'm sorry if this article has already gone through the mill, here - I couldn't find it searching for it. I don't know if I'm late to the party, as it's already a month old, but it just came up in my newsfeed:



http://ift.tt/1uQLCvN



It's an article denouncing...I don't know...Hasbro? For hiring Pundit and Zak S., and it wants them to apologise for doing so, if I'm reading it correctly.



I don't want to champion Pundit, here, but I also don't think it should be necessary. I don't care if Darth Vader himself was a creative consultant for Dungeons & Dragons, if he wrote a great game I would buy it. I'm pretty impressed with the new D&D, and in fact with all of Pundit's work. I don't know, and don't feel it necessary to like him as a person - I wouldn't have liked Earnest Hemmingway very much, either. We have nothing in common. But is it still okay to read his literary masterpieces? Not according to this author...who didn't sign his name, either, as far as I can find.



What the author of this article suggests is essentially to blacklist two people from the industry for their perceived politics and poor online behaviour. That's authoritarian, at best.



I believe this effort is a poor use of driving energy and focus.



//Panjumanju

Pundit is the Darkest Part of RPGs, Apparently