The Culture: This Greyhawk Thing Is Another WOTC PR Scam

At least some folks have sufficient self-respect to demand public acts of contrition before opening the coin purse.

This is all theater to bring back the clapping seals.

This apology — why are we hearing about it from Luke? Why wasn’t it made publicly?

Because the insults and dismissive remarks were public. The messages on old school rulebooks about their problematic content are still…

— OSRDwarf (@OSRDwarf) March 23, 2026

Not that Wizards of the Coast will give it. They know that the Soup Aisle will cave, again, and thus the cycle resets anew because the Network Effect has teeth and thus Fear of Missing Out is not a phantom threat with no substance.

They still have no capacity to stand on their own. They don't acquire prospects independent of WOTC. They don't have any value proposition, given their own presuppositions on what the hobby is and how it works, that makes defecting from WOTC worthwhile; there is no value to being king of an irrelevant backwater instead of a player in the big ocean of primary concern and action.

They still get easily rooked by Public Relations fakeouts like this. It's the same 'memberberries bullshit we've seen before; there's nothing substantive behind this- it's the sort of thing that usually gets done as a crowdfund campaign, makes a splash, and thus gets forgotten about because there's no follow-up and nothing done to incorporate it into the real business that WOTC runs. It's fake and gay.

Glad to see a few sus it out for what it is, but a few is not enough; all of you need to get on board, and all of you need to stop soyjakking when WOTC throws out the bait. They're using your idols to fuck with you, and too many of you are too addled to recognize when you're being scammed.