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Added Orion's response to the OP. Not a great look by wizards to do the public apology before contacting the person you're apologizing to.

(My understanding only) tl;dr Orion felt they were brought on as part of a serious push to improve D&D's Diversity and Inclusion. Instead, Orion ran up against an insiders-only culture that Orion felt only brought them on to improve their image rather than make actual change. Furthermore...

For a high power company like WotC, that can afford cultural consultants, that's the solution - pull from RL cultures, but make sure people from them are happy with how it's done. Ideally you've got more than one, because any given person's perspective on their own culture is going to be a small...

While I agree generally, I will nitpick that there were in fact multiple versions of Potions of Healing due to the gold cost factor - WotC wanted the gold:healing:surges reasonable, so healing potions consumed a surge and healed a flat amount. If you made the action cost more reasonable and/or...

Might as well just tag @Morrus that there's news again

Two-tweet thread Orion has responded In a reply, they state WotC did not contact them before issuing this public apology

My 2 cp on the goblins issue is while there's many pieces of wildly popular media that encode them as Jewish (Harry Potter, World of Warcraft are the chief offenders), I just don't see it for D&D. There's no association with money, conspiracies, infiltrating society, or any of the other pieces...

I'm not totally sure if Daniel Kwan is the best person to handle that, even if he's the most visible - feels to me like there's some other Asian creators who could use the spotlight better. Honestly Dark Sun 4e basically stands as is - they did a lot of work with the edition update & handling...

Yeah with regards to fixing things this is a "Could you do Kara-Tur 5e, but respectful this time? Or should you just ditch Kara Tur for an asian-inspired MTG setting like Tarkir". (Can do the same for other "non-western" areas of FR) I've brought up Eberron a number times already for what can be...

I think we're getting off course for this thread - I think a more productive direction would be focusing figuring out which areas have problems but are salvageable vs. areas that should probably just be forgotten.

Literal neo nazis weaponize "ironic racism" and other "racism but I'm not serious about it so don't hold me responsible" as a recruiting tactic. That's the teaching you're talking about - create an environment where it's unclear if someone "really believes" in the racist thing they said, then...

So there's a few pieces of this for me To start, while TTRPGs are "art" and "entertainment", they function quite differently to other mediums - we're the ones creating the stories, the rules are just a framework for that. That means as a DM you're taking a much more active role in the...

I think the point is yes, people should feel bad about "preferring to play with 1e OA" these days. It's one thing to defend the piece as a product of its times as a reason to stay available for sale - I'm willing to accept that's a tricky line, especially since it's problematic to strictly tier...

And as I quoted, Keith is clearly on board with these ideas and may even get around to them this year. Not sure if you follow his blog, but he does a monthly deep dive on topics decided by his patreon. Sarlona 5e and Nobles of Khorvaire tied last month, but due to family issues the Sarlona post...

While Xen'drik has its curses that stop civilization, it's (intentionally!) coded as "The Darkest Continent". Xen'drik is the South America that Indiana Jones is exploring in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Xen'drik is the Africa of pulp comics from the 50's. The main inhabitants...

Edited into the OP Wizards response on Twitter, there's a full thread here

While I wish the market could decide, the reality is the RPG market isn't terribly competitive and the presence or lack of extremist ideologies isn't a deciding factor for the most part. With WotC owning the majority of the market and unlikely to be upset any time soon, RPG production is...

The specificity of the rules system matters here - for example, 3.5 had a ton of racial combat bonuses, like dwarves vs. giants and orcs or gnomes vs. kobolds. If you abstract your system away from those details you free up the constraints on the lore writing to feature specific race...

IMO you can go a lot farther in setting supplements than the PHB. As an example, "Dwarves and Elves hate each other" isn't something that should go in the base rules, but I would find perfectly acceptable in a setting supplement that has the space to give that conflict depth. The PHB just...

There's a huge gap between "The law shouldn't censor fascist creeds" - a point I agree with, publishers should feel within their rights to distribute Mein Kampf or enormously racist works like the Lovecraft Mythos. However, that doesn't mean Wizards of the Coast, the by-far leader in the RPG...