This is just… too accurate. He’s exactly the kind of guy that would literally buy them to just do that.
But he wouldn’t just do that once because the idea is funny (like I would), but really insist on it and use it every round, every game, even when everyone is annoyed, and say that this is fair play because the rules say so
Legit. My dm in middle school let me make a character with a custom species, and it was more than a little unbalanced (because I was in middle school and thought victory was the only thing you played for). After two sessions we gave the character an ignominious death and I brought in something out of an official sourcebook.
Half of the fun in TTRPGs is fucking up and having to figure out a way around it. Take all of the risk out of the die roll and you might as well not roll at all. Use a different system.
Hey man, making up rules to put the elite at a massive advantage over a completely unsuspecting people is a tradition as old as European colonization. Can't stop now.
You know, I think he says a lot of the stupid shit he does, just so his name is constantly in the news cycle. Just like the old 1980s game "A rockstar ate my hamster" the phrase "Any publicity is good publicity" must be his mantra.
Anyway, I agree. I'm sick of hearing about his latest antics.
When we say billionaires are evil, this is mostly what we mean. Inaction is just as bad as bad action, if you have the means.
There have been a handful people (ex-billionaires) who apparently got the message and decided that a few hundred million was more than enough for them and gave the rest away (and actually did it right away instead of in a "pledge" when they die so their children can curate the non-profits that will inherit their billions). Mckenzie Scott is one.
I think there's also a component of if you have earned enough money to be a billionaire you have to have been doing some level of exploitation since a billion is such an unfathomably big number. You're either like Bezos where you exploit your workers to make big profits or you're like Musk where you exploit the government for subsidies and contracts.
So one of my group had us fight a Garbage Mound which was a custom shambling mound. To hit it, players had to roll under its AC. Thankfully our friend Kevin rolled 1,2,5,1 and soloed it.
Lkke Kleenex and Xeroxes for tissues and photocopies, DnD is now the generic term for tabletop analog RPGs. All the wizards of the coastal AND land-locked regions can suck on that fact.