D&D General The New York Times on D&D

[talien]

An editor who doesn't know anything about D&D but does know who Elon Musk is wanted to know what the heck Musk's problem this time was. It's a slow news period at the end of the year and the reporter didn't have anything they could say was occupying all their time, so they were ordered to write it.

There's no agenda behind most news stories beyond "answer this (sometimes dumb) question" and "we have a news hole to fill."

Publishing this story at this time of the year is basically the same as burying it. People here clicking on the link are probably a fairly significant number of its overall readership.

squints You've worked in corporate PR haven't you? 'Cause I know this, and the reason I know what you know, is from experience with being harangued by journalists with very short deadlines for articles that seem to have been written before the reporter even spoke to us.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

squints You've worked in corporate PR haven't you?

 

[Divine2021]

And I would have been subjected to those race laws (they would have classified me as a mischling). One side of my family came to the US fleeing that sort of persecution. But I can also understand D&D is talking about races the way lots of fantasy or science fiction does, not about human racial groups (i.e. an alien race of beings from the planet Neptari). One of the good things about D&D is it treats humans as all belonging to the same race. Agreed though this is not a topic to get into

I’m Black, and a lot of people on message boards have opinions on how I should feel about this topic.

I frankly find replacing “race” with “species” to be deeply problematic and troubling. But to point this out makes people feel uncomfortable.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I’m Black, and a lot of people on message boards have opinions on how I should feel about this topic.

I frankly find replacing “race” with “species” to be deeply problematic and troubling. But to point this out makes people feel uncomfortable.

Back when this was being debated on the forums when the to change race to something else was first floated I felt that terms like species, ancestry, etc was getting into more troubled territory than just going with race (especially when you consider the original meaning of the term race when applied to humans)

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Man, they want an E war so bad, but they are only getting an E wimper.

Why would they want an Ecstacy war? Drug wars get people hurt.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

And I would have been subjected to those race laws (they would have classified me as a mischling). One side of my family came to the US fleeing that sort of persecution. But I can also understand D&D is talking about races the way lots of fantasy or science fiction does, not about human racial groups (i.e. an alien race of beings from the planet Neptari). One of the good things about D&D is it treats humans as all belonging to the same race. Agreed though this is not a topic to get into

I never thought of that point before and I love it .

You won the thread as far as I'm concern, I can't see anyone beating the D&D treated Humanity as one race argument .

I'm now solidly on team race instead of team Origin (which I liked better then Species because Warforged & Autognomes & Shardminds).

But one human race is an ideal that will happen some day in the real world because of interracial reproduction. Children will have ancestors m from all over the world. No more racism.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Publishing this story at this time of the year is basically the same as burying it. People here clicking on the link are probably a fairly significant number of its overall readership.

I read the NYTimes (online) every day, even multiple times a day, and somehow missed this article.

 

[payn]

Why would they want an Ecstacy war? Drug wars get people hurt.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I’m Black

Why would that matter? The change wasn't made because of anyone's skin tone, it was made to replace discredited science with something that reflects a more modern understanding. Of course there will always be people who are offended when they are told that their understanding of the world is no longer current. And other people who are offended by bad science.

 

[Remathilis]

I’m Black, and a lot of people on message boards have opinions on how I should feel about this topic.

I frankly find replacing “race” with “species” to be deeply problematic and troubling. But to point this out makes people feel uncomfortable.

Do you prefer Ancestry (Pathfinder), Heritage (Level Up) or Lineage (Tales of the Valiant)?