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I feel this. We don’t use the term with my 6 year-old. We tell her she’s Japanese AND American. “Half” means she’s not fully either. I respect the perspective of those who have embraced the term, and identify with it. If my daughter embraces it as she gets older (I don’t think the Japanese word...

My take on this is that WotC is the wrong entity to go to for this kind of thing. When you’re a freelancer, companies like WotC aren’t your employer, they’re your client. Your irregular client is not the one you go to to get mental health support. What is needed is an independent association...

You know, I’ll admit that I didn’t give the 2000 D&D movie a fair shake because it was jokey and silly, when what I really wanted at that time was Lord of the Rings. (Although while I was unfair, I was ultimately right in not wasting my time.) But now, having gotten Lord of the Rings, I don’t...

"Good faith" in this context means to attend the summit, hear what WotC has to say, and then use their various media to honestly report and comment on it, be that good, bad, or indifferent. To address concerns tangential to the agenda of the summit at appropriate times and venues. Based on...

Heck, after the question about mental health support from WotC, the hijacking of the VTT presentation to talk about diversity and cultural sensitivity, the hijacking of the PHB presentation to talk about creator abuse, and now this tweet, I'm starting to think that many of the attendees are not...

I would not call a content creator who does occasional guest appearances for WotC a freelancer, no. I’m using freelancer in the sense of someone who is self-employed, earning income by providing a particular service to many various clients. But that’s beside the point. We can consider her a...

You know, I assumed the same, but looking at her bio, it appears she is actually a content creator/personality, not a freelance writer, designer, or artist. In which case, I throw up my hands, and am rapidly coming to the conclusion that Wizards should just wash theirs of the whole...

There’s some confusion here from the use of the word “creator.” Initially, it sounded like this was a request from a content creator, i.e., a YouTuber/streamer. From the Twitter thread, it seems this was actually regarding freelancers. As a freelancer in a different industry, my incredulity...

They seem to expect that WotC will look at the questions and say, “What a great question! We don’t have an answer for it right now, so let’s take time out of our schedules setting up this summit and designing our products so that we can put our heads together and work it out.” Rather than the...

Yes, I got that, too. And given the nature of the Internet and social media, mental well-being is an important consideration for anyone getting involved in content creation. My question is, when did that become WotC's responsibility for anyone who is not an employee? And just what do these...

Okay, and what does that have to do with creating YouTube content about Dungeons & Dragons?

That was shocking. That line of questioning made no sense to me.

All credit to the writers, directors, and Rege Jean Page for taking the most stick-in-the-mud Lawful Good stereotype, and somehow making it...endearing?

I did. I had a crap part-time job paying $5 an hour, but since my food, room, and board were already taken care of, all of it was disposable income.

The earliest projections I've been able to find are here, from March 3rd, which say $23M-$30M. Perhaps you are misremembering the total domestic projection, which had a low end of $52M? These projections were revised on March 24th to $27M-$36M, based on advanced ticket sales and positive...

Just a note about D&D in Japan. Both 3.x and 4e got full Japanese translations during their releases. 5e initially did not, as it seems WotC wanted to revisit their license agreements with all of their overseas partners. (They did allow the previous Japanese license holder, Hobby Japan, to...

It should have come at the end of the scene at Edgin’s house, but the scene cut off earlier. Also, Edgin never makes the comment about “sharper stairs somewhere else.”

Context matters. If Edgin went on this adventure with a party of all male adventurers, and the only other female characters, if any, were his damsel-in-distress daughter and a thinly motivated villain, then sure the movie could and should be called out for a lack of female characters with real...

I thought they paid it off beautifully and subtly. In his memory, Edgin remembers his wife saying, “You don’t have to capture it. Just let it go.” And when he sees it at the end, he realizes that he has to let her go, and save Holga.

I think this can be a bit overstated. Marvel didn’t invent the quip, and I don’t think the comedy relies very much on quippy humor. It often plays more broadly, like the Revel’s End escape, or the Edgin illusion. I’d say show her the Speak With Dead clip. If she likes it, there’s more where that...