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It's kind of on them? (And by them I mean the misogynists?) I am all for polite discourse and engagement with a heavy dose of empathy. I fundamentally believe that all people have at least a spark of good and decency in them. Without going too far down a religious path, it is a fundamental...

Hmm, I don't know that I agree with this characterization. I think it's less about "are you or aren't you sexist" and more about "are you or aren't you willing to be confronted with that?" I consider myself a feminist. I work hard to not be sexist in my actions and choices. But I still do...

Seriously, all y'all, stop bringing this conversation back to variations of, "She does not have the experience for the job." Like, "Oh, so she was hired because of her inexperience." All accounts point to the fact that she does have the experience for the job. Starting with the fact that she...

If Affirmative Action made it so much easier for minorities to get jobs over white men, why are positions of power in almost all industries still dominated by white men? It's like all the other months getting to a leap year and complaining, "How come February gets all the extra days?"

Pretty sure sexist is generally used to refer to specific people or specific things. When just talking about men in general, the phrase is "men are the worst!" But even this is often directed more at some men than others.

I don't mind talking about my own race, gender, sexual orientation, religious identity, but, for some reason, I am uncomfortable making statements about those things for other people who have played at my table. Particularly because I don't always know and would hate to incorrectly identify...

Speaking about the United States here, but in the past, pretty much everything structurally excluded everyone but Mr. Whitey. There is a discussion elsewhere on this forum as to why the historic demographic of D&D skewed so hard to white males. As a white male myself, I don't want to speculate...

There is a difference between carefully selecting the people who participate in a private gaming group and excluding people through the overall structure of a hobby. Now, if I found that the criteria I was using to select gamers at my table led to certain demographics being turned away, I...

Totally. The tweet ends strong. I will just admit that, as I read it, I had more of a "huh" expression on my face. Maybe because he opens with rules complexity and then moves to lore density and then finally gets to the really good part about firing sexist :):):):):):):)s from D&D. And while I...

There is a difference between appealing to a demographic and discouraging or excluding a demographic. One can be welcoming to a broad range of demographics while still, ultimately, appealing to one demographic more than others. It's also clear that the makers of D&D want to appeal to as broad a...

It's generally expected that managers will stand up for people on their team. Considering that the person in question was being savaged not for something they had done, but simply because of who they are, makes Mearls's response seem pretty light. It is unfortunate that the language of his...

Here is the blurb I used on the Facebook page for our last open D&D session. The game is hosted at a local store, and that store helped by sending out blasts to the event. The date, time and location were up top via the Facebook interface. We got about 10 people, 2 of whom showed up late and...

Fist bump for peaking your head up. Well said.

White males dominate a lot of things, even things they didn't create. (See rock and roll and the blues.) D&D, and table-top roleplaying in general, originated in a time when the United States was even more segregated than it is now. The source material that inspired it, fantasy fiction, was also...

I don't disagree with your hypothesis. I disagree that this particular poll is a good way of collecting good numbers to back that hypothesis up. That said, I feel very strongly that we need to do everything we can to diversify the representation in all levels of the hobby. As players, as DMs...

I played with a group of new players yesterday, and that is basically how it went. I showed them the list of classes from the PHB, and when a player said, "I want to play somebody with magic," I broke down, in my mind, how the Wizard, Sorcerer and Warlock differentiate. Wizards also has these...

But I do have one package. It's called a Barbarian. I can then customize that package at the subclass level. For some classes, those distinctions can make a big difference in how I approach the character. (Think Thief vs Assassin vs Arcane Trickster.) For other classes, less so. (In my mind...

But at some point, doesn't creating lots of subclasses just overload the subclass design space instead of the class design space? We've reduced the options at character creation, but now a player has just as many options once they reach the subclass level. And do we now have subclasses of...

I know folks with genital ambiguity and they prefer "intersex" to hermaphrodite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex.

Yeah, sorry, the options are way too reductive for a meaningful demographic survey. Women are lumped into one group, but men are broken into "white" and "non-white"? It feels like a pyramid of other-ness. I'm curious to learn about the demographic breakdown of my community, but I just don't see...