There’s an evil twin to “has only ever played Dungeons & Dragons and thinks all tabletop RPGs are as complicated as Dungeons & Dragons” that lives somewhere in the vicinity of “went straight from Dungeons & Dragons to rules-light storygames and thinks Dungeons & Dragons represents the high end of tabletop RPG complexity”. Like, buddy, you have no idea.
Every time I make a joke about some unreasonably baroque bit of tabletop RPG rules tech and some chucklefuck in the notes is like “OP, you can just say D&D”, they should be legally required to conduct a cover-to-cover reading of Shadowrun 3rd Edition. There will be a test.
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” – G.M. Gilbert
You can also look up “Alan Wagner sign artist” and you’ll find LOTS of his art works of a similar vibe- and I haven’t confirmed but may have even made some, if not many of these. Like if you recognize this sign:
