Wednesday, May 6, 2026

WotC Workers Try to Unionize

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/wizards-of-the-coast-and-hasbro-miss-deadline-to-voluntarily-recognise-workers-union

I will always support a union.

However, I will find it hard to support the workers in Wizards who, for years, have insulted old-school players and blamed them for every perceived problem with the hobby. This group is more on the card-game side, but you know if push comes to shove, they will all stand together. I wish them well.

There is a difference here.

Unions are good.

But this current crop of Wizards creatives, I do not care for at all. They were certainly happy to blame us and put warning stickers on our childhoods, as if we were playing with damaged goods.

THAC0 the clown?

We're not clowns, and THAC0 is still better than bounded accuracy and the current mess you have in 5E.

The old school crowd is the first people kicked out the door when the game gets popular, and the first crowd they come crawling back to when times are hard. I have better in the OSR these days. Sorry, I moved on with my life and found another game.

"D uhn D" means nothing to me now. It's a sound associated with people who don't like my generation or the games we played. It embraces outrage for social media clicks. It is a live service model.

Good luck trying to tilt at the windmills of Wall Street, people. I hope you get your union. But you won't win. You will be fired en masse and replaced by contract workers running A-I. Welcome to 2026.

I don't understand how people still play those games.

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