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An employee union needs to be started immediately. A group with heft, probably the CWA. Provisions for protecting employee speech and certain actions are pretty important here, as well as a grievance process for workplace harassment and poor working conditions.

Is there anything that customers can do to help staff through the unionization process? I'm trying to remember if I've seen crowdfunded strike-funds or something like it before.

It's clearly a rant, and I would take everything in it with a grain of salt.

That said, it seems pretty clear with what Jessica, Crystal, and Diego have said, that some pretty toxic management is happening. I've been a Paizo customer for over a decade. I recently started subscribing because I want to demonstrate long-term support for the Workers who are making stuff I love. I hate the idea that they'd have to work in a toxic and abusive environment just to be able to create the things they want to create.

I know I'll be following the conversation here, on Twitter, and on discord, looking for any kind of organized ideas for how customers can help. Just cancelling orders doesn't seem particularly effective. I'm guessing that 95% of Paizo's customers don't follow any of this. But there has to be some way for a company's most dedicated fans to apply pressure on behalf of the workers.

I'm talking with my players about opening up the Free Archetype. It seems clear that everyone should have access to either Arcane or Primal casting, but past that I don't see why it should be so restrictive.

Here's the two options we're looking at:

1. If you have Arcane or Primal casting from your base class, take whatever you want for your FA. Otherwise you must take a FA which grants Arcane or Primal (Druid, Sorc, Witch, Wizard)

2. You must have access to an Arcane or Primal Cantrip by Level 2, and I don't care where it's from (innate Ancestry, base class, feat, or FA). Take whatever you want for FA.

We've been playing together for a long time, so I'm not worried about power-creep. Can anyone see any problems with this? Is there some special thing about Druid and Wizard Archetypes that I'm missing?