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So since there's been broader adoption of many of the ideas put forward by protest movements it follows they're selling something most people are buying into in the marketplace, no?

You could build the character as a warforged envoy or skirmisher to reflect the character being less bulky.

I guess I'm unclear on your point here. Why did public intolerance only became a problem in the last 10 years?

Still, it seems a bit defeatist to throw up your hands and say nothing can be done when witnessing suffering in the world.

Gonna have to disagree with you on that. Bigotry doesn't have to lead to outright physical violence to inflict harm. It doesn't take that many bigots to get a platform and cause material harm to the people they are against or even the people they claim to be for. Redlining, disparities in...

I understood Cadence was saying it would be better to replace inspirational with by a more apt word like influential or foundational to avoid the potential confusion Cadence mentioned.

Sure, I'm not literally saying hand the reigns of product development over to the fandom. I think that's a bad idea, but the premise of this thread is feedback and suggestion from those of us who aren't decision makers. Hence why the organization of the physical product in the DMG was something...

Reviewing my Dungeon Master's Guide one thing glaringly jumps out at me that can and should be improved on for any new edition—this whole thing is out of order! It reads more like a how-to-manual for designing a setting rather than a run-through of how to actually DM the game. Running the Game...

Yeah, perhaps calling his work "foundational" or "influential" rather than "inspirational" clarifies things on Lovecraft and his influence.

As someone who once inadvertently revealed Santa wasn't real to a few Christian friends in elementary school I appreciate this analogy.

Once people agree on first principles deciding on how to implement a solution becomes the next hurdle. No less because WotC needs to anticipate what the world might look like when 6E gets released.

Swap Lovecraft as an inspirational work with a work that engages with the subtext of cosmic horror in a way that doesn't endorse his views and calls them out for all to see. Misha Green is adapting Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff into a television series on HBO which is getting rave reviews. It...

Eh, nah it makes him an anti-Semite and racial essentialist whose work is in the public domain. Also, to put it out there, I don't think his writing was very good overall and haven't touched his stories since I was in high school. Lovecraft's influence in modern day fantasy and horror is so...

The map isn't literal—it's a depiction from someone on the Material Plane flattening the cosmology together with some resulting distortions. That doesn't mean Lamannia or Dolurrh are the only planes that can connect to the Ethereal Plane. To quote Monty Python, "It's only a model." The planes...

Eberron doesn't have Elemental/Inner Planes. What you see on the map is all they got.

Doesn't the issue then become simply hiring a sensitivity reader to launder ableist mechanics into less obviously ableist language? Putting people in a position to call out bad things without explicitly empowering them to change those things is not going to help WotC meaningfully alleviate...

Well, it's no High Anxiety that's for sure!

Yugoloths are still fine however.

For the record, I really don't think there's much daylight between our positions. I was elaborating on how I imagine a candidate who has experienced discrimination in their personal life might bring that into an interview (or even include it as part of a cover letter), and not arguing that WotC...

Because you responded without acknowledging that I already included that in the example, and then cited several things as not important that are specifically called out in the job listing as part of the desired qualifications and expectations for the role. It's very easy to draw connections...