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The original was posted on /r/hobbydrama by /u/SAlolzorz on 2025-07-24 21:26:11+00:00.
TW: SA, SUICIDE
See Part 1 here.
I’m gonna jump ahead here. I had originally intended to cover John Tarnowski/RPGPundit’s many inconsistent statements regarding his income and financial status in Part 2. But while I have some of those screenshots on my main drive, I have many more on one of my old Linux drives, which I’m not gonna get to til this weekend. I don’t wanna half-@$$ it. The full width and breadth of this guy claiming to be rich, while using alts (mostly related to his “Swami” grift) to e-beg for things like eyeglasses and home repairs, is something.
Lemme be clear: I’m not making fun of Tarno for not having money. I been there. Hell, I don’t even know whether he’s lying about being rich to impress the OSR folks, or lying about being poor to milk his “spiritual enlightenment” followers. But I do know that he cannot be simultaneously rich and poor. Schrodinger’s wallet, lol.
It’s comin’ though, bear with me.
Today, we will instead be looking at one of the defining controversies of the RPGPundit’s career. Namely, the time he called neo-nazis “heroes.”
I posted about this previously, in an OSR thread a year or so ago. Rather than just linking to that post, I’m gonna copy it here, and make some edits for clarity.
Bonus content: this post I made previously also covers the time Pundit urged game designer Cam Banks to commit suicide, and the time he mocked a victim of sexual assault.
First, off, let’s start with his calling nazis, “heroes.” That all stems from a blog post he wrote about a 2017 protest at Berkely that turned violent. A woman was punched in the face by a neo-nazi. And while Pundit didn’t know, or pretended not to know (since many had already claimed that the man was a nazi, and they’d be proven right), who the man was, he called him, and his comrades, “heroes.”
https://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-real-story-of-battle-of-berkeley.html?m=1
Once the man was identified as a neo-nazi, and not just any neo-nazi but Nathan Damigo, a violent white supremacist with a record of hate crimes, and the leader of Identity Evropa, Pundit stated that he stood by his statements.
Pundit’s weak rebuttal is that he didn’t call Nathan Damigo a hero BECAUSE Damigo is a nazi. He called him a hero for “standing up for free speech.” But that’s exactly the point. No one ever claimed that Pundit praised the man’s views. Only that he called him a hero, even after finding out he was a nazi. This is all true, and it’s plainly shown in the blog entry. Pundit has said several times since that he would stand with anyone, even nazis, if they stood for free speech. But most of us wouldn’t stand with nazis no matter what, even if, like a broken clock, they were right twice a day.
What’s more, Pundit claimed that the woman whose assault he gleefully celebrated was a “violent would-be murderer,” because she quoted Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds,” and said she wanted “100 nazi scalps.” However, he is called out in the comments by Anon Adderlan, a Pundit supporter, and member of Pundit’s own forum, for showing things out of context. Anon Adderlan posts a video that shows clearly that Damigo was preparing to punch the woman BEFORE she tried to punch him. The full video can be seen here:
Relevant part starts at 0:31.
In the original blog entry, Pundit says: “I have no idea if the guy who Hm hit her was a ‘white supremacist’ or not, but I know that in that one moment, he, and everyone who fought FOR free speech instead of for leftist totaliarian censorship and terrorism at Berkely, is A MOTHERFUCKING HERO.”
Here, he was clearly leaving open the possibility that the man was a “hero,” even if he was (as it would unquestionably turn out) a nazi.
After Damigo was identified, Pundit added the following to his post: “I still absolutely endorse my position in this blog entry.”
In typical Pundit fashion, he lies, refuses to admit when he’s shown to be wrong, and takes then woman’s quote of Tarantino films as a serious and credible death threat [around 15:11 in this video].
But when Pundit encourages self-harm or violence, he labels it “Swiftian satire.” As he did when he told game designer Cam Banks to commit suicide.
https://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2017/01/cam-banks-stop-pussyfooting-and.html?m=1
Banks had posted a blog entry about wanting to hire POC and marginalized people, to which Pundit replied that Banks should exit the industry if he felt it had too many white men in it. Pundit finished the post with this gem:
“if you REALLY REALLY believe in the claims of the ctrl-left version of ‘social justice’, go ahead and likewise resign from being alive. You know, because “straight white men are a huge problem” and they need to go and all that.”
In a video intended as a rebuttal to these and other claims, Pundit straight up lies about telling Banks to kill himself [around 15:29 in the “rebuttal” vid]. “I didn’t tell him anything he wasn’t already saying.” When he clearly did. But, again, RPGPundit is a liar and a fraud.
Finally, and worst of all, Pundit is so frequently and gleefully cruel that he doesn’t even remember mocking a victim of sexual assault {also covered in the “rebuttal” video]. For many of us, this would be something we’d never forget, and would even be ashamed of. For Pundit, it’s just another day at the office.
https://therpgpundit.blogspot.com/2016/04/tabletop-gaming-has-pseudo-activist.html?m=1
A woman wrote an article about her experiences. Pundit called her a liar, without a shred of proof, mind you. Here is a direct quote from his blog:
“Go, laugh at this stupid lying sack of shit. Because really, there’s only two adequate answers to this kind of total bullshit: MOCKERY, and DISGUST. I recommend both.”
This wasn’t, as Pundit falsely claims [15:57 in the rebuttal video], a case where he innocently mocked someone who, whoopsie, turned out to be a rape victim. He is mocking her BECAUSE she is a victim, and encouraging others to do the same.
What makes it so insane that Pundit doesn’t remember this (or at least claims not to, he is a liar, after all), is that, along with his glazing of nazis, it was a HUGE deal around that time. He was roundly criticized by many other bloggers in the RPG and OSR spheres, and many members of his forum left en masse, to get away from Pundit’s odious views.
So, that’s it for now. While a lot of Pundit’s behavior is downright laughable, there’s nothing funny about what I’ve covered today.
See ya soon.