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Dude why is everyone attacking Wickwire he is right if a company takes a stand on an issue there are going to people who disagree with what there during with. He's also right I don't think the majority of players want real world events spreading into there games.

I think, by most of the comments here that are in support, that you are clearly wrong about that. Anyway, there will be people that disagree, but I'm sure DDB was well aware of that before they did it. They made a choice. You can disagree with it if you want and buy your dice next week. 

Is there a way to purchase these dice while keeping my money of the hands of a political organization? It doesn't matter to me what the organization is.

Hey I got a plan that will clear up all this madness. Have DDB give the other half of the dice money to the police officers families who are hunted down by criminals of every background. That way everyone wins.

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Is there a way to purchase these dice while keeping my money of the hands of a political organization? It doesn't matter to me what the organization is.

 Buy them next week.

I think that this service/forum and the  D&D hobby should not be used as platform for pet ideologies, political grandstanding, virtue signally or anything other than the hobby of D&D.

Dipping into the race baiting politics of the tragic situation in America is frankly not the business of Dungeons and Dragons and can only be divisive to the player community. 

They are. Proceeds does not mean profits. The 50% is after costs.

Bottom line for me: I'm proud to be a supporter of D&D Beyond, and thank you for letting all players know you support them.

Hey I want to apologize. I didn't mean to start a war with you. I am sure you are a good person & I am not a bad person. There is just a lot of stuff going on now & it is what it is. Truce okay.

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Hey I want to apologize. I didn't mean to start a war with you. I am sure you are a good person & I am not a bad person. There is just a lot of stuff going on now & it is what it is. Truce okay.

Truce.

Diving into racial "politics" (although let's be honest, this isn't a political matter, it's a racism/human rights matter) is exactly what D&D Beyond should do. This is a game that we all love (otherwise why would we be here) seeped in American racial historical motifs. But that's besides the point. The point here is that a company in a position of power is taking a stance, and that's not a bad thing. They're not endorsing either "side" of a Republican/Democrat divide (unless you think human rights are an inherently anti-Republican thing) and they're not endorsing any sort of violence or extremism. If people with loud voices - companies, celebrities, etc - don't speak up, then ultimately those without a voice lose.

In short, complaining that the multinational company who publishes a game we play has an opinion on something you would rather ignore is an inherently privileged mindset.

I do admit they are some beautiful dice.

Not to detract from your intention here, but having my wife attacked by a BLM protester because she is white has definitely turned me away from this particular group. All lives matter no matter the color.

so good. You guys are doing really well

well done, team

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Not to detract from your intention here, but having my wife attacked by a BLM protester because she is white has definitely turned me away from this particular group. All lives matter no matter the color.

You know it wasn't Black Lives Matter that attacked your wife, right? It was an angry individual. I am 100% certain that the organization did not want to attack white people because they're white. 

I need to look at the dice some more - however....

 t would take me ten minutes in Unity and PhotoShop to modify my dice set to the "old school" skin.  And that's allowing a lot of extra time.  I could dang near calibrate the monitor and still deliver in that time.  The $15 set would take a bit longer, because there's more to do - but substance painter can do most of that effect.  And so I'm just thinking $15 might be... a bit high.

Now before you say "well we have to make money somehow," you sure do - and I already buy a subscription and have bought digital editions of a lot of stuff from you.  Take this, and generate an initiative order from it, and I'd pay you extra money every month for that.  Take this and let players roll dice, and let me see it - and I'll pay you extra for that as well.  But $7 for a flood fill of a layer in a PSD file seems a bit high.  Also, at least make this available everywhere on the site where I need to roll dice or - better still - just everywhere on the site.

Also, if dice are a core feature - then they're backlogged as a core feature, and you're delivering that feature regardless of whether anyone buys any of the dice sets at all.  And so costing should just be the artist's time, and not the coding and integration time for the dice themselves.  Ideally, you'd have a fixed asset security system already in place that you can leverage for this - and so you'd only be spending a couple tenths of a cent a month to host each new image.

And so a better strategy would be to make the dice feature handle a bit more mechanics - similar to the Discord bot, at a minimum - and then sell access to the feature, and if you're going to sell dice skins - sell those at say $1 or $2 as a bonus money.  I'll pay you extra every month for some combat automation and for improvements to the character generator - but the odds of convincing me to pop $15 on a dice set are very near to zero.  I can buy three to four actual dice sets for $15.

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Diving into racial "politics" (although let's be honest, this isn't a political matter, it's a racism/human rights matter) is exactly what D&D Beyond should do. This is a game that we all love (otherwise why would we be here) seeped in American racial historical motifs. But that's besides the point. The point here is that a company in a position of power is taking a stance, and that's not a bad thing. They're not endorsing either "side" of a Republican/Democrat divide (unless you think human rights are an inherently anti-Republican thing) and they're not endorsing any sort of violence or extremism. If people with loud voices - companies, celebrities, etc - don't speak up, then ultimately those without a voice lose.

In short, complaining that the multinational company who publishes a game we play has an opinion on something you would rather ignore is an inherently privileged mindset.

Except they are endorsing the Democratic party because BLM is not only a group that advocates for human rights. They are also an engine of political change that supports nearly all of the Democratic party's platform and condemns anyone who disagrees with them as racist. Slavery reparations, radical criminal justice reform, opposition to the state of Israel, and more are all Democratic party talking points. They may not be a Democratic organization by definition but they drip with Democratic party views. Conservatives aren't anti-black, but that's what a great deal of BLM supporters and organizers like to say.

Also, black Americans do have a voice. Its called a vote, my friend.

By supporting an organization based on getting rid of racial discrimination, that doesn't mean that they're supporting democrats. BLM is not a Democratic organization, even if their goals coincide. Stop bringing politics into this, it's not political. The fact of the matter is that in the past year, there have been a lot of racial discrimination against black people, and it needs to stop. 

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Dude why is everyone attacking Wickwire he is right if a company takes a stand on an issue there are going to people who disagree with what there during with. He's also right I don't think the majority of players want real world events spreading into there games.

Because this reads like racist rhetoric that has constantly been used to talk about us minorities without actually saying the words black, Latino, or anything relating to race. "Get tough on crime", "leave politics out of it", "I don't see color", it's all racism. They could've said nothing and waited a week to buy them but in my mind, this is nothing more than rhetoric that I'm so used to hearing in my life.

DDB is actually giving their profits for these dice to BLM. Not merely paying lip service, that's admirable and I wish other companies would do the same. 

These are awesome. Mostly purchasing them to support both D&D Beyond and BLM.

Actually I am not racist. I just knew that THIS would happen. We are dividing. We are arguing. I didn't want that. I do admit in my posts It was heated. That was wrong of me & I'm sorry. But this is what I was trying to warn about. When you take sides, you always cross the other side. And in this heated environment our country is in its just going to cause more arguing. But hey if you believe its a good cause, buy the dice now. I don't want to support it. So if I buy it will be later. But please people, gamers, we need to remember we are all humans...except for you elves, gnomes, halflings, dwarves, well you get the picture. Have fun storming the castle.