There's recently been a "buzz" about D&D players creating a petition to have Hasbro, makers of the very popular Dungeons & Dragons game create a metric version of the Dungeonmaster guides.
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbr.com%2Fdnd-metric-system-petition%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C55aebcce3b6c43e2b99108d98eb43acd%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637697728218383636%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=mbul9k4hdrPZlgoCaVay6LvlTwqaFC%2BESOHa0MZHbR0%3D&reserved=0 <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbr.com%2Fdnd-metric-system-petition%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C55aebcce3b6c43e2b99108d98eb43acd%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637697728218383636%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=mbul9k4hdrPZlgoCaVay6LvlTwqaFC%2BESOHa0MZHbR0%3D&reserved=0> I emailed Hasbro at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> expressing my opinion that not only should they produce their books using metric units but NOT to include a "special needs nation" version at all. This is ridiculous, people. This is only one minuscule example of how one nation can wreak unnecessary havoc for no justifiable reason whatsoever other than because we CAN. Here's the body of my email: (I wrote it quickly so it's not my best work but maybe you can garner some inspiration anyway) As a red-blooded American who also games, I would like to add my support and strongly suggest not only that you use International metric units in the DM guides for D&D, but do not include an "American" version using quaint, antiquated and otherwise obsolete units that the rest of the world is trying to distance themselves from. Isn't that costing you a lot of extra money and time? You are not only dismissing 95.5% of your potential customer base by writing DM guides in units of measure they cannot comprehend, you're doing nothing to further Americans familiarization and acclimation to a system of measure we should have transitioned over to decades ago. We failed as a country to go metric. -YOU- can make a difference and it would be greatly appreciated. Go metric, America! What are you afraid of?
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