WotC WotC's Chris Perkins On D&D's Inclusivity Processes Going Forward

Over on D&D Beyond, WotC's Chris Perkins has written a blog entry about how the company's processes have been changed to improve the way the D&D studio deals with harmful content and inclusivity. This follows recent issues with racist content in Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, and involves working with external cultural consultants.

The studio’s new process mandates that every word, illustration, and map must be reviewed by multiple outside cultural consultants prior to publication.

Leveling Up Our Creative Process: Learnings From Spelljammer

In this blog post, I'll talk about how we in the D&D Studio are changing our review process following the problematic content that appeared in Spell...

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[GMforPowergamers]

Liefeld made the same boring killer 'hero' he always does only with an uncharacteristically for him cool costume. Nothing else of Deadpool was his creation.

again that is the debate I was thinking about right there...

 

[MGibster]

"Shadow" reads a little different once you know that HPL wrote it in response to his shock and horror at discovering that one of his ancestors... was Welsh!

Buwch sanctaidd! Nid oes unrhyw ffordd yn wir!

 

[Vaalingrade]

That wasn't Claremont either.

Never said it was. X-men has many parents for what it became.

Even people who then went and blew it up, like Grant Morrison, who built the mutant subcultural concepts... then killed 16 million mutants and said it was half the species, and also every homosapiens is host to sapient yeast that is a racist.

 

[Umbran]

"Shadow" reads a little different once you know that HPL wrote it in response to his shock and horror at discovering that one of his ancestors... was Welsh!

I think considering this work as a specific statement against his Welsh ancestry, or Catholicism, is missing the larger issue for the specific - issues with miscegenation are all over the thing.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Also, most people hate Innmouth people purely for how they look and that's depicted as right and just and natural.

 

[Umbran]

I've often wondered why people point to Lovecraft as being particularly racist even for the era, but he really wasn't.

Because we still read Lovecraft, but don't otherwise read history. So we see Lovecraft's problems, and have to deal with them. Other problems of the day are much less visible, and so easy to dismiss. This allows us to keep up an idea of exceptionalism, by positioning the problems we see as isolated, extreme, and unusual.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Anti inclusion speech? This site is a joke. Ban me please. Here’s the majority of people on this site - “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”

WATCH OUT FOR THE DOO….




Ouch. That’s gonna leave a mark.

 

[Faolyn]

I'm a fan of drawing inspiration from RL cultures, religion and history - but I also do not believe that every culture who is not of European descent deserves greater treatment than those of European descent.

Wouldn't it be better, though, if every culture, including European ones, got treated better?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

again that is the debate I was thinking about right there...

Thinking ..... NEEDZ MOAR POUCHEZ!

Still, probably the best feet he's ever drawn.

 

[Vaalingrade]

And the best gun! No cracks in the casing at all!