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Originally Posted by Bump2daWiza  The whole notion of Monte Cook telling us what a good guy he is because he was upset that Redgar, the white fighter, would be the figure head of the artwork, is frankly a little insulting to all the real injustices we have had to endure. Come one. It is art for a game that mostly white folks play. |
This isn't a vanity article on Cook's part. He wouldn't need one, people worship him anyway.
What this is, however, is Cook explaining that the marketing team forced the creative team to make the lead iconic a white male human, because they have this stupid idea that white males will be appealed by him more. Which seems silly to me, this
is a roleplaying game.
So someone tries to help diversity, even a little bit, and you accuse them of insulting the injustice your ethnic group has gone through? If you want to help improve race relations, Bump2daWiza, you'll get nowhere fast with that attitude.
In response to this thread in general, most of the gamers are white males. But what most of the gamers are
not is racist or sexist. They probably wouldn't mind having, for example, Ember as the iconic lead. The vast majority of them would just look at illustrations of her doing some badass things monks do and go "Ooooo! That feat looks cool! I should have my character take it!" There would be some people who would be turned off by D&D because of a different race or sex, but if I was
WotC, I'd not want their money. Marketing that takes into account intolerant attitudes does not help at all.
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