GaryCon banned RPG designer Venger Satanis for one year after he handed out flyers promoting his own convention, VengerCon, at the event. Venger is calling the ban politically motivated — not a neutral enforcement of convention rules, but cancel culture targeting a designer who doesn’t fit the mainstream gaming scene’s politics. This is the same pattern we’ve seen in sci-fi publishing and fantasy fandom: use a minor rules infraction as the excuse, but the real target is someone the gatekeepers don’t like. We break down what happened and what it means for independent RPG creators.
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