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Jeez, I thought this was finally an announcement of the next official campaign and that it was going to be a new one tied into the radiant citadel. 😖

I actually wouldn’t lay out the terms in the beginning. That makes it more of a formal contract. I prefer the warlock/patron relationship to be more informal, like art patronage. There aren’t specific terms, just a gentleman’s agreement of quid-pro-quo. Indeed, I would have the patron start out...

I agree with Battlemaster, but I think taking Fighter to 7 for an extra superiority die and two more maneuvers, which still gives you 5 levels of Rogue for Cunning Strike and the same number of Sneak Attack Dice as you’d have at Rogue 6 is the better way to go given your cap of 12th level. I’d...

I mean, it sounds like two slightly different versions of the same story. WotC wanted to make a 50th anniversary adventure that featured lots of callbacks and cameos to previous adventures. Perkins wanted to do this by paying off the Netherese obelisks he had been seeding across various...

I find it helps to think of Warlock patrons as, well, patrons. You know, wealthy nobles who would pay artists to fund their art. It’s not really a business relationship - the patron doesn’t technically have any say over what the artist makes, they’re just kind of donating to enable the artist to...

Again, all production and all consumption has environmental impact. Period. Anything not made from animal or plant matter is made from minerals mined out of the ground. And animals and plants reproduce, by definition, while minerals are finite resources. Granted, the scale at which we use animal...

Barbarian - Promarily red, secondarily green. They use their emotions to tap into primal powers. Bard - blue, red, and green They are scholars of a kind, but they study the lore of nature, and perform magic through, well, performance and affecting the emotions of those who hear them. Cleric -...

I just think if one finds one’s self defending parties who are actively harming marginalized groups in order to defend one’s self from perceived implications that one is a bad person, merely because others are choosing not to support said parties financially… one probably ought to reflect on...

Where are you getting that statistic from?

Yes, there are examples of that happening. That doesn’t make it the case that boycotts are generally ineffective, as you claimed.

This take is entirely vibes-based, and not consistent with actual evidence.

Boycotts are highly effective when they’re organized. That should be pretty evident to D&D fans given the results of the mass D&D Beyond cancellations in the wake of the OGL-pocalypse. “Boycotts aren’t effective” is what people tell themselves to justify their own unwillingness to participate in...

Yes, that is true. And, it is also true that geek culture has always been shareholder value. The world is complex and multiple things can be true simultaneously.

Nobody said anyone was a bad person.

That is true, and certainly to disengage with a brand/product/franchise/etc completely is a more effective form of protest than simply not buying it. But, a boycott is about cutting off the money flow, and that’s easier to get more people onboard for if you don’t also demand that they get rid of...

That’s not just geek culture, that’s all of late-stage capitalism. Our entire society is based around making the line go up, and you can only make the line go up by either reaching more people with your product, or once you’ve achieved peak market saturation, charging the people who are already...

That’s the thing about models. All models are wrong; good models are still useful.

Yeah, same. Generally, if players in my games want to choose an alignment and write it on their character sheet they are more than welcome to, but I don’t require it and I don’t put any more importance on it than hair color, eye color, height, weight, etc. Maybe a useful roleplaying tool for...

Well yeah. The point of a boycott is “stop giving them money,” not “your possessions are tainted.”

Also, why exactly are we sealioning in JK Rowling’s defense here…?