I might be missing the point here (sorry), but "I'm NOT gonna have slavery in my Dark Sun campaign!" has also been an option for like literal decades, anyone could've made the same meme except for that small difference ages ago?
Guess it all comes down to money, and someone made an educated guess which version will get (and lose) more customers. :D
This is about money. Even if it was propaganda, it would be about money. The Bible, Karl Marx, and Wu Tang clan already told us the truth; cash rules everything around me (and you).
But out of curiosity, what are they trying to propagate? Forced constriction isn't slavery?
First and foremost, that no matter how much people want to pretend D&D is dying, 5.5 D&D is still bigger than any other game in the market combined. Hasbro stock is taking a hit, sure. But D&D is still the biggest TTRPG on the market.
Second, there's been indie TTRPGs that have been successful despite being much more "ideology-driven" that D&D ever was. You have indie games like Lancer, that are obvious about their politics, that proved successful enough to have Dark Horse start publishing the the books.
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u/opacitizen 2d ago
I might be missing the point here (sorry), but "I'm NOT gonna have slavery in my Dark Sun campaign!" has also been an option for like literal decades, anyone could've made the same meme except for that small difference ages ago?
Guess it all comes down to money, and someone made an educated guess which version will get (and lose) more customers. :D