It’s finally happened… Dungeons & Dragons has become co-opted by identity politics, and now those of you who thought tabletop gaming and miniature collectibles were safe from the toxic AOE rhetoric of Social Justice Necromancers are now being poised to face off against the same kind of soy-powered sophism that gamers in the interactive entertainment realm have been battling against since 2014, when #GamerGate got underway.

DnD content creator Kasimir Urbanski – who runs a small YouTube channel RPGPundit – recently posted up a video detailing how he’s come under fire by Social Justice Warriors who claim that he’s trying to gatekeep the Dungeons and Dragons community by preventing minorities and women from joining. The 15 minute video below covers the basic gist of what Urbanski has been going through and some of the charges laid against him by the clerical clique of the Intersectional Inquisition.

If you managed to trudge through all 15 minutes and presume that it’s all FUD, you presumed wrong.

If you check the actual DNDGate hashtag, you’ll find that everything Urbanski mentioned in the video is true, right down to various members of the Rainbow Reich Coalition giving alms through virtue signaling like a pious prefect for the Church of SocJus.

This is sadly not all that surprising. The RPG scene has some great folks, but has been slow to reckon with the undercurrents of (for example) sexism and racism in the community.

— 𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔢 (@olde_fortran) June 19, 2018

So this is your wake-up call. Don’t let this shit get a toe-hold. Our hobby is better when everyone has a place at the table and we promote more voices in design and play.

— 𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔢 (@olde_fortran) June 19, 2018

What can I do?

Help out marginalized folks in our hobby. Listen to them. Make space for them. Use what privelege you have for good.

Watch out for people pitching tribal bullshit as the gateway to this.

— 𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔢 (@olde_fortran) June 19, 2018

Wow, there are morons trying to start a “DNDgate” thing. With complaints about “attempted SJW entryism of non-gamers into positions of influence over the hobby”. What year is this? How long have I been in this industry…working alongside women, POC, trans…? Oh yeah 30+ years.

— Comrade Nephew, First Minister of the Cyber (@JohnNephew) June 19, 2018

It’s heartening seeing #DNDgate get the scorn it deserves, but if you’re someone (esp. a dude) who has dismissed the notion of this happening as “hilarious”, I’m going to need you to STOP because that is not a good look. (THREAD)

— Resting Witch Face (@wundergeek) June 20, 2018

but his #dndgate hashtag is entirely composed of people mocking or denouncing him so RPGPundit can go smoke a cat turd about it

— Jay Allen (@a_man_in_black) June 20, 2018

It’s not just the altar boys and acolytes dog whistling on behalf of the Aristocracy of Appropriation, there’s also the usual suspects in the form of actual writers and game designers joining in to condemn and castigate their own audience for participating in #DNDGate. This includes male feminist and game designer Brian Engard, along with writer and game designer Gareth M. Skarka.

DndGate? No. If you’re such a backward, mouth-breathing troglodyte that you cannot accept people unlike you in a hobby about playing people unlike you, then there’s the fucking door. You’ve misunderstood the point of your hobby so hard I’m not convinced you ever understood it.

— Brian Engard (@Zelgadas) June 19, 2018

The dudes who tried to get “dndgate” going are huge loser dorks and it’s good that the community is having none of it, but it’s also worth remembering that one of them got name-checked in the #dnd credits alongside a guy who runs a harassment group. There’s still work to do folks pic.twitter.com/2QN14LS5kL

— Bethesda Softboy (@Ettin64) June 21, 2018

Let’s get THIS trending for #DNDgate:#DNDgate is the pathetic cries of impotence from a never-was nobody, John Tarnowski, AKA Kasimir Urbanski, AKA RPGPundit. He hates when you use his real name. #DNDgate is nothing but Tarnowski’s tantrum that WotC didn’t hire him.

— Gareth M. Skarka 🌹 (@gmskarka) June 20, 2018

There’s also the typical mockery and goading by 30-something white males with unkempt beards, open-mouths and colorful rainbows located somewhere in their profile picture.

I’m going to be less polite. Fuck anyone who thinks that DnDgate should be a thing.

We will outlast your entitled white male fragility bullshit because we’re smarter than you, and we will be better without you. #dnd pic.twitter.com/8YoOEmMqqm

— Throck (@ThrockPlays) June 20, 2018

Did you know that hashtags can be trademarked? Because I just dropped $297 to trademark #DnDGate. Which means once I own it, every time that it’s used by a certain Uruguayan cretin for his propaganda, I can send him a bill for trademark infringement. pic.twitter.com/pJW4BTyFpF

— Daniel Fox (@ZweihanderRPG) June 21, 2018

Of course, all of this complaining and whining couldn’t go completely without some form of opposition. Anti-SJWs have been slowly creeping out of the woodwork to unleash the proverbial “BTFO” attack on SJWs using common sense and a hard dose of reality captured within the miniscule span of just 255 characters.

I guess #DNDgate is about people demanding inclusion by excluding anything that offends them. (usually how it goes)

but PTSD from a tabletop game?

Stop belittling people with actual PTSD pic.twitter.com/n8cAynpiqV

— Zepblackstar (@zepblackstar) June 22, 2018

And so it goes, the great culture war for Dungeons & Dragons has begun. MS Paint memes will clash against lenghty harangues, while arrow-like volleys of equivocation and deflection will rapidly blast across the embattled landscape of Twitter, Facebook, and occasionally YouTube.

There will be plenty of shrieking and crying to be had from people approaching middle-age whose most valuable possession in life are the thousands of bot followers they paid for to retweet and reblog their vapid self-congratulatory moral crusades in order to feel important about their digital-demonization of political adversaries, all as a means to sate their culturally-parasitic narcissism.

Rinse, repeat, and toss in a few Polygon and Mary Sue articles to yelp about straight, white males and toxicity, and you’ve got a repeat of #GamerGate all over again.

(Thanks for the news tip Tenebrae)