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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8491352" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Agreed.No. You're wrong. Or, at least you're speaking from a false authority. What, are you the corporate seer of Wizards of the Coast? Why are you magically proclaiming that there are literally only two possible courses of action?Yet I appreciate that you propose here another option: of putting more specific warnings on some product labels. That's quite boring, but it would be slightly more than the present-day boilerplate.Why are you hellbent on presenting only two boring options?Let me tell you, being tapped by Wizards to speak for an article, and being paid a bit for the time, is great personal publicity. Of course, the amendatory interviews would be done very skillfully, with beautiful editing. Do you really think that R.A. Salvatore just woke up one day and randomly "chose to step forward" and make <a href="http://Unfortunately, no time was left at all to try out RPG optional developments. I had to shoot from the hip for much of this." target="_blank">amendatory comments on the drow for the Polygon article</a>? No. His comments were almost certainly coordinated and vetted by Wizards' own team.  And they did a good job. The designer amends interviews aren't there to ruffle even more feathers and open more wounds. They're there for authentic healing and teaching the D&D principle that "diversity is strength."Some other poster in this thread spoke as if I were a legal nincompoop for saying that Wizards is the legal successor of TSR. Sweet jeezus. Regardless of what the technical term is, it's a fact that Wizards owns TSR and all its assets. Which means that Wizards owns all of TSR "debits" and moral karma as well. When a company buys another company, they don't just buy the benefits! They also gain the karmic responsibilities.Well gee, should I just throw my hands up and say: "Darn, Faolyn says nothing can be done! I guess I'll just give up."Dude, processes can happen. There is such a thing as human discernment. Is any amends process absolutely perfect? Of course not. Would some individuals think Wizards went too far, or not far enough? Of course! But that doesn't mean that a living process cannot happen.What I laid out is actually pretty simple. As with anything in life, you just have to bring in the people who seem the best qualified for the task at hand, and empower them with a mandate to do their thing. The Romani consultant has the skills to come to some sort of objective conclusion when it comes to Romani-inspired motifs. The Humanist consultant does too, about her/his field of expertise. The Feminism consultant too. The Lakota consultant too. Ya gotta trust people to fulfill the role they are expertly trained to do.And there'd of course be an overarching "managing/editorial team" for the process, which would bring the various specific threads into a coherent whole, so that the findings can translated into a readable DRAGON+ amends article, and the appropriately specific charities can be tapped for automated donations.</blockquote>

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