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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8896651" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Spelljammer is a great product that you dislike. That’s fine, but don’t try to act like your preferences are objective valuations of quality. They’re preferences, just like my preference for the format used and for the light and broad strokes lore, not to mention the art and general graphic design. I don’t try to act like my opinion is obviously true, though, because I know damn well it’s a result of biases, especially aesthetic preference based biases.  Wotc leadership are being gigantic buffoonish…jerks, on the order of Biff from Back to The Future. Chris Cocks is a bad leader for Hasbro, and the trio of Microsoft alumns are bad for D&D specifically. And I like most 5e official products. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Nine times! No, none times, iPhone, not nine. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" title="Face with tears of joy    :joy:" data-shortname=":joy:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />But come on, you really don’t see the influence of bias here? You really think only those who disagree with you are biased? I couldn’t care less about the economic viability of a publicly traded company, nor do I ever have brand loyalty, as I don’t believe that anything other than individual people are relevant to the concept of loyalty. I just like the products that wotc has made for D&D , and prefer the latter half of 5e’s catalogue to the former half, roughly speaking. You say there are many “better” products out there. I buy a decent number of them. They are, for my tastes, at best about on par. Kobold Press is a great example of a publisher that I’ve purchased from even though I generally feel like I have to modify half of the product to make it work how I want 5e compatible options to work. They have cool ideas, and I like the style and concepts they throw out, so I support them. I never purchased Volos or MToF, because I despised the lore in them, and the thick layer of racial essentialism contained therein, but I picked up MMoTM immediately once it was available by itself, because it’s a high quality product full of stuff I like. Finally, I have said repeatedly that I won’t be supporting wotc unless they do a couple very specific things wrt the OGL. My statements here are about the product, and the license, not any sort of brand loyalty (again, a concept I am contemptuous of) or corporate apologism (I am literally an anti-corporatist socialist).</blockquote>

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