This week there's been a series of scandals that has seen ttrpg SJWs vigorously cancelling their own. So why is Jessica Price untouchable in spite of having sold out to Wizards of the Coast?
I think that there are actually 2 questions in this situation:
1: Why haven’t the SJW’s turned on her?
2: Why The Fuck did WOTC hire Her?
I think Charon has hit the nail on the end here for question #1:
In the far lefty opinion, she isn't working for WoTC, she infiltrated it. …
This!
As much as the SJW’s do not like D&D – they cannot fully destroy D&D until
they are in charge of it.
Miss Price’s hiring is a signal to the SJW cognoscenti that they are starting to exert more control over the game.
So, yay Miss Price! You go girl!
Now we get to:
Why The Fuck did WOTC hire Her?
I mean honestly! Her online shenanigans and public meltdowns should not be obscure to anyone that is paying attention.
One of her first posts about her Raveloft gig was basically slagging off Mike Mearls.
And nothing happened…
So only one conclusion can be reached: The people running D&D absolutely know.
I posit that Ray Winninger, Chris Perkins, and Jeremy Crawford not only know; They are down with Jessica Price.
Why? Because I think that they really don’t like Mike Mearls either…
WARNING! WARNING!*Serious Tinfoil-Hat wearing territory here…*5e was largely Mike Mearl’s baby. He ran the show, not them. Perkins, and Crawford were there, but all content was filtered through Mearls.
Perkins, Crawford, and Winninger are far more liberal than Mearls. I would bet big money that they would have done several things in 5e very differently to Mearls if they were in charge.
They certainly would have never hired a consultant like Pundit - Perkins, and Crawford are the kind of gamers he had been mocking for years before 5e was even in development. And they had to know that Mearls was talking to him.
It seems that until recently they were “locked in” to the plan that Mearls helped set for 5e in terms of content and release schedule. But that now seems to be loosening up…
So phasing out the old plan - Time for the new plan!
You now have a set of hardcore leftists at the helm. But to bring D&D to where they think that it should be;
they need to keep their jobs.But what they can do is set a new tone, and signal to their fellow travelers that things are starting to change.
Thus, Jessica Price was hired to work on Ravenloft.
A torch bearer who can say out loud what they can’t, and is ultimately expendable so that they are insulated from anything incendiary. So no matter Miss Price's ultimate fate, they can continue to slowly turn D&D into the game that they want it to be.
IMHO this is a sign that some kind of SJW 5.5 / 6e product or announcement is inevitable in 2024.