Role for Charity Bundle Supports the UK's NHS

EN Publishing, along with other UK-based tabletop roleplaying game publishers, is contributing to a charity bundle run by the Role Play Haven to support NHS Charities Together. The charity bundle is worth over £100, and includes material from Brittania Game Designs, EN Publishing, Handiwork Games, Magnum Opus Press, Modiphius Entertainment, Nightfall Games, Red Scar, and Son of Oak.

To support the campaign, simply purchase a Role for Charity t-shirt for £18; the game bundle comes free with that purchase. The campaign lasts two weeks.

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Tabletop Role-Playing Games Industry comes together to support NHS Charities Together in #RoleForCharity

The Role Play Haven has teamed up with a whole host of UK publishers to raise money for NHS Charities Together through a bespoke charity t-shirt fundraiser which launches on Wednesday 2nd February at 2:00pm.

The pressure on our National Health Service continues to be relentless, but NHS Charities Together help provide the extra support and services needed to care for staff, patients, and improve health in our communities. Working with a network of over 230 NHS Charities, they listen to teams on the ground and invest in projects that help the NHS go further than what would otherwise be possible through standard Government funding alone.

The Role Play Haven t-shirt campaign will help them to fund things like counselling and the creation of outdoor spaces to improve staff and patient wellbeing, new technology and specialist equipment to enhance patient care, the training and equipping of thousands of emergency response volunteers to help save lives in local communities and research into long-term health conditions – such as long-Covid and many other conditions.

The #RoleForCharity t-shirt features bespoke, never before seen, artwork which has been created exclusively for this campaign by the veteran TTRPG artist Jason Juta.

As part of the purchase, supporters will also receive a one-off gift from each of The Role Play Haven’s sponsors in the form of PDFs, discount coupons and physical books. They estimate this bundle value to be over £100 and sponsors include; Brittania Game, EN Publishing, Handiwork Games, Magnum Opus Press, Modiphius Entertainment, Nightfall Games, Red Scars and Son of Oak.

T-shirts can be purchased here from 02.02.2022 at 2pm for £18, with a minimum of £8 per t-shirt being donated to NHS Charities Together.

The campaign will be a two-week pre-order to maximise fundraising and fulfilment will be completed by GMS Hobby Game Logistics.

 

[Morrus]

Every NHS- supporting pressure group is strongly opposed to treating the NHS as a charity for the simple reason that it obfuscates government under-funding.
This is particularly the case at the moment when we have a government where corruption is so rife that £37 billion has been dodging spent on Test/Trace and around £9 billion has been wasted in contracts to government donors and cronies. Feel free to google the scandalous corruption of Owen Paterson, Matt Hancock and Randox as one of many examples.

This charity is absolutely done with the best of intentions and supported by good people, but the wider issues cannot be hidden. They are, often literally, of life importance.
When Nye Bevan (one of the architects of the NHS) stated, “I would rather be in contempt of the law, than in contempt of the poor,” he was talking far wider than a thread-ban on EN World, but the principle holds true.
I accept that I deserve a thread-ban and take it with no malice, and nothing but respect for Morrus and all the moderators, but can’t sit back politically from a thread that, by its nature, is accidentally political.

I asked you not to do that, and you ignored me. Do not post in this thread again, please. Because you specifically indicated that you were deliberately doing this knowing it would mean a thread ban, I'm going to be asking you to take a time out from the site for a while.

 

[Larnievc]

Wait! A charity event to fund a government organization of one of the richest countries that ever existed?
There's something really wrong here.

Political rant removed.

 

[Morrus]

You’re not wrong: both parties have a profit motive to run the NHS into the ground so that bits of it can be sold off to private providers.

In about 2008 some NHS services were opened up to tender to ‘any willing provider’. Which was essentially a race to the the bottom. Community Interest Company sprung up and devoured each other (some managers up and left en mass to go to other localities decimating that service’s ability to compete) and pay scales were decoupled from national pay scales.

Charity should never have to shore up government mismanagement but capitalism and here we are.

19 years in the NHS clinical and management.

Please don’t post in this thread again. Who’s next?

 

[antiwesley]

As I mentioned in my previous post, I think there is something to be discussed though. Not so much about the fundraiser itself or the why, but in publisher response.

Like I said, 3 out of 8 were actual product 'donations' and the rest were coupons.

This is akin to Halloween trick or treating, where you find the houses that have candy bars, and avoid the houses that hand out "50c hamburger" coupons.

I know that a lot of people who run these packs are appreciative of any support, but doesn't it seem a little backhanded to hand out coupons rather than PDF's of other material?

On one hand, it does provide publicity for both the charity and the company offering the discount, aka "Donate to this charity offering, and you can get an exclusive* coupon for Product X!" and that can be good for the charity. But at the same time, it makes Product X's contributor a little bit of a cheap skate. Rather than possibly offer a $5 PDF for free, we'll just sell you a product at a lower cost!

The other part of that is that if the product is not something the person is interested in, then the benefit to the person supporting the charity makes it even more worthless, and unless it's something that they feel strongly about, they might not donate at all.

In this particular example, t-shirt aside, for me personally, 5 out of 8 things are pretty much useless.
I don't play or use 5E or PF. the Modiphius offer is nice, but at the conversion rate, it's not much for Americans.
(One game politics note: for me personally, I wouldn't buy anything from Modiphius anyways, they hired Gareth Skarka as a writer for some product, and let him use an alias to hide his presence. While I didn't back 'Far West', I know people who have, and they felt this was a slap in the face to them. (Google Far West kickstarter or visit the Tavern for more info. The product is up there with anything Ken Whitman touches, NuTSR and even the Marmorial Tomb to a point.))

So I guess the question that can be discussed here, is what makes a charity offer worthwhile for you?
Is it the charity being supported? Is it what's being offered as a benefit?

 

[CleverNickName]

Aw. I wanted one of those tshirts.