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No, they represent the oppression of black people, and have therefore become a symbol of our treatment by whites. Removing it from the PHB is like saying the oppression never happened my man.

In the black community the gnome represents the oppression of our people. This comes out of the fact that garden gnomes are almost uniformly white and tended to be placed in suburban neighborhoods. For black people like me who are political aware, the removal of the gnome race from the PHB was a...

Just replace the word "Gnome" with the word "Black" and I think you have your answer.

5 Party Members: fighter, Paladin, Wizards, Rogue and Warlock. I don't have the monster manual but we fought some bandit skirmishers and a warlock last game. 3-4 hours.

Our first few combats have each taken almost an entire session to run. Largely because monsters appear to have so many damn hit points.

That is a little harsh I think.

The wizard boards are down again.

I hope 4E fails, so I can laugh at all the fanboys on wizards.

My point is if they want to reach out to blacks, rather than talk about how great they are because they fought the marketing department to keep too many white faces on the cover, it would be more productive to do something where the racial disparity is real: wealth. Everyone has a different...

Diversity in the US? Where are you living. I live in a city where all the people are ethnic. Next door is a suburb full of white people. Every well-to do place I have been is full of white folks. Talking in the classroom about how great diversity is campus, how there should be more equal...

Personally I don't feel like the game plays like D&D at all. I think it has the simplicity and narrow range of earlier editions (and I don't mean that in a bad way-- I liked the range of 2E), but that it plays more like a video game than an RPG (at least that is how the powers make it feel for...

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.

As a non-white guy, I think there is nothing more pathetic and sad than self loathing white folk trying to impress minorities.

I don't think I lack perspective. We just might differ on this highly subjective subject. I do think it ironic that more old school gamers are coming back to the game as a result of 4E. I started on 1E, and actually like 2E best out of all the editions (just a quirky preference I guess). But I...

That is the problem with 90s racial thinking. It assumes marketing departments dictate race relations in the US. This is why white suburban people think racial tension is dissapating, but people like me who live in ethnically diverse neighborhoods know that is not the case. Hauling around your...

I think this time there is big difference. All other editions of the game, even though the transitions generated some controversy, were somwhat similar (with 3E probably being the most radical break prior to 4E). 4th edition is a completely different game. It is a well put together game, but it...

I usually like Cook, but this is just cynical 90s nonsense. An attack on all things white and vaguely European. Diversity is great. Not being racist is great. But artificially engineered diversity is worse. Boo Monte Cook.

I can still log in, just can't get into any forums.

I don't think anyone is angry at you personally (unless maybe you banned them at some point). From what I can tell you are interested in keeping people informed about what is going on, and you have been very open. But people are frustrated with wizards and the way they handle these sorts of...

Mark my words, in six months 4E (and DDI) will be hailed as a monumental failure. Not in terms of design (it is a very elegant system), but in terms of failing to meet its markets' expectations.