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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…?

Sure, fine, but compared to smart glass? Absolutely not. The environmental cost of extracting and processing those minerals is significantly worse. Everything not made from animals or plants was mined from the ground. All production and all consumption carries environmental costs. If one...

Both of which are explicitly discussed in the opening post. And you’re claiming smart glass is better for the environment? Pull the other one.

Is that a thing people do anywhere…?

Huh? Every post in the thread has been directly related to the topic in the opening post… Why wouldn’t paper be legal and why would Meta glasses be better…?

It’s all nonsense. Define “true neutral” in whatever way makes sense to you for your games and there shouldn’t be any problem.

Absolutely. I wish more of the people who call themselves allies shared that outlook. The number of people I considered friends who still bought the stupid video game was truly depressing. And then to add insult to injury they all ended up complaining the game was bad like a week later.

I chose the phrase foreseeable future intentionally. It still could happen some day, but it isn’t currently on the horizon. Nor am I, but I would boycott M:tG or D&D if WotC did a Harry Potter tie-in for either product.

Totally reasonable, and like I said, I support that decision. I was just trying to see if there was something else more specific I had missed. Anyway, I appreciate your commitment.

Sure, and if it was just about potential sales, that would make a Harry Potter set seem pretty likely. But they would also have to rebuild the staff who make the cash cow. And, again, they said they wouldn’t in response to this announcement. Like, if you want to argue that a possible future...

A Harry Potter M:tG set is absolutely not happening in the foreseeable future, and I would put real money on that. First of all WotC tweeted shortly after this announcement that M:tG already has a magic school setting and they currently have no plans of releasing any sets tied to another. If...

I support this decision, but I’m unaware of what relationship D&D Beyond has with her? I know Hazbro included Harry Potter in a list of upcoming partnerships, which I suppose might be reason enough not to want to support Wizards of the Coast. But is there any specific information connecting this...