Please choose a real-life role and do what you can to improve your community and the world in these dire times.

We’re going to step away again. If you feel inspired to, please share Survive the Tyrant! The upcoming Worldcon and MagicCon are great opportunities to get the word out.

Anyway, the entire RPG community is amazing, from the most famous streamer to the five-year-old who plays a goofy sidekick so they can sit in on their siblings’ game.

Special shout out to all the GMs/DMs. All us players owe you so much for creating the worlds and putting your hearts into it.

I’m not saying anything new and I don’t want to tell anyone how to make a living, but we do think in a few years everyone will be asking why, in 2025, everyone kept up their financial support of billionaire Trump allies who put us in this position.

Please consider leaving X and Twtich for good.

This week’s news that Bezos is trying to buy Condé Nast is terrifying. The little we about what Musk did at DOGE came from brave reporting by Wired.

That’s what streaming on Twitch supports—the continued capture of every independent news outlet by billionaires.

But as fans, it’s obvious that when you look back on 2025, you will ask why you didn’t leave the billionaire economy sooner.

Your archive is your legacy, and in the future when you watch videos from 2025 every passing mention of Twitch and X will make you wince.

Finally, a few words for streamers, from Critical Role and Dimension 20 to the smaller shows.

We see you promoting trans personalities and continuing to make story lines where capitalism is the enemy. That’s awesome, and needed now more than ever.

(By the way, as surveillance becomes an increasing problem, Discord voice channels, Roll20, and D&D Beyond (and Spelltable) may be excellent places to have dangerous conversations—obscured by the ordinary back-and-forth of the game.)

A play group is a natural resistance pod. You already have a good reason to be meeting and talking about intense things.

Consider asking your group to take 20 minutes of each session for real-world organizing. For ideas about how to help, look here:

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/goodtrouble/

If all I knew about someone was that they play RPGs, I would trust them a great deal just from that.

You’re good people.

We still believe RPG players are natural opponents to tyranny. The act of getting together in a small group to imagine a different world is inherently subversive. Thinking about right and wrong is part of the game. The moments when characters face a deep personal and ethical dilemma are the best.

The billionaires, led by Elon Musk, have operated more openly and obviously than we expected. The budget act signed on July 4, 2025 was a naked power and money grab that will kill or impoverish huge numbers of ordinary people.

Never forget that the billionaires declared war on us first.

Things are going faster than we expected. We wrote: “Since the regime does not allow free expression of negative information, the media will not provide a clear and accurate picture of current events.” But it has still been shocking to watch trusted media organizations race to capitulate.

Makes sense, and thank you anyway

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