WotC Some Rich Dude Calls for Wizards of the Coast to "Burn in Hell" and I Refuse to Care

[Staffan]

I had forgotten that you can be a dog and have 10.2 millions instagram followers (I actually googled the number). For the record, Gandhi, Mozart and Michelangelo had none.

Well yeah, but they're all dead now, so how did that work out for them?

 

[Dyson Logos]

That's too bad.

I do care. Because when he aims his troll armies at my friends, it can get ugly.

 

[Lanefan]

Just think of the stupendous flurry of lawsuits there'd have been, though, had it been the reverse: [a major gaming company] calls for [a rich dude] to burn in hell.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I hope WOTC and Gygax burn in hell together. When I arrive I will be guaranteed some good gaming when I descend.

 

[Voadam]

I hope WOTC and Gygax burn in hell together. When I arrive I will be guaranteed some good gaming when I descend.

I am not so sure that would be a guarantee you’d get to game.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I am not so sure that would be a guarantee you’d get to game.

Yeah there would be a table with minis and a great dm and dice…I would keep almost getting to play but I would get called into work, a kid would need something, my wife would object…

Wait I have already been through hell?!

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I hope WOTC and Gygax burn in hell together. When I arrive I will be guaranteed some good gaming when I descend.

You all will be condemned to play The Forest Oracle, again and again, for all eternity.

 

[MGibster]

Elon Musk isn't some rich dude. He's an individual who currently has the ear of president elect Donald J. Trump and will soon be tasked with leading efforts to dismantle the federal government. When we talk about Harry Potter, JK Rowling often comes up because of the immense harm she's done to transgender people. Musk is poised to do a lot of harm to the United States. He's already done a lot of harm by allowing Twitter to turn into a haven for bigots.

Why even open this thread? If you don't care what Musk has to say why create a thread about it? Why not just tell everyone in the other thread how much you don't care?

 

[Mistwell]

I like the tone of this thread more so thank you for this.

Reading the other thread felt like playing a game of The Floor is Lava.

 

[SlyFlourish]

I don't care about him or, really, what he posted. But I think there's a larger deeper train of thought we can follow on this topic.

• You can love D&D and RPGs and recognize its troubled past (even recent past).
• People you respect can say and do terrible things. One doesn't cancel out the other. You can (and should) acknowledge the bad while not necessarily letting it become the whole message about the good.
• People can say very harmful things and hang onto harmful opinions and still be nice people who love and support their family and friends. Both can be true.
• We each have to decide what we do with our own hold of problematic art and problematic artists. It's complicated and our views can change (mine have).
• We can listen to those affected and not use our privileged position (for those of us cis het white dudes) to discount their experiences.

Cory Doctorow wrote a really good essay about his complicated feelings on Harlan Ellison that I thought did a good job of navigating the topic and I think is relevant to the core of the topic today.