#maybe he'll just insist they replace baatezu with paperclip maximizers and stop there

[jennamoran]

In Fairness, "Why Did They Even Build That Plant?" is a Valid Concern

Technically there's no real interaction between what I write and D&D. LIke, they're recognizably in the same general hobby, and a lot of my audience is part of its audience too, but, like, my work isn't really in dialogue with D&D or anything. By the time I started writing, most of my gaming experience was World of Darkness, Amber, In Nomine, and most of all MU*s; arguably all of those were either in dialogue with D&D, or with other things in dialogue with D&D, etc., but, like, the connection grows thin?

Technically it isn't a problem for me or the indie scene as a whole if Musk buys Hasbro and messes around with D&D. He would not be the first terrible person to get involved with the hobby, nor are his ideas the worst ideas ever to be disseminated through the hobby. This hobby started with a bunch of really monstrous ideas baked deep down in, and most of them are still with us---in D&D, at least, but also sometimes through the gaming scene as a whole.

... it feels like it'd still really suck, though, at least emotionally and likely practically, somehow, as well, if the dominant and default game in the hobby I write for becomes a metaphorical Nazi bar.

It's like, if a hybrid molasses/sewage treatment plant five blocks away from me were to explode; like, there's no specific vector by which this would definitely be a problem for me, but it feels like I should perhaps be concerned?