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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geoff Thirlwell" data-source="post: 8480558" data-attributes="member: 6949569">I’m probably tread on thin ice but I think that if inclusivity becomes too much of a focus it can seem forced or disproportionate and instead of promoting inclusivity it can actually provoke a negative reaction. The game should be something everyone feels comfortable playing without feeling excluded but I think something is going very wrong when the rules are being distorted unnecessarily in an attempt to ensure that even the most creative person cannot read some sort of offence into the text. Just to be completely clear, I believe that inclusivity is a good thing but it is a delicate balance and can be mismanaged. I enjoy the Dragon Talk podcast but it went for a very long period (possibly 20 episode) where every single guest was either black and talked about their colour or was non-heterosexual and talked about that.  I have absolutely no issues with people from either of these groups and enjoyed their interviews as much as any other guest but it was an extremely disproportionate representation of the majority of the fan  base. The guests race or sexuality seemed to be the main reason they were chosen for the show. They have a random character generator segment where probably only a quarter of the characters gender is male or female. The host for some reason decided to refer to Raistlin from Dragonlance as “they” on several occasion when the character is clearly defined as male. It all just seemed so false and I couldn’t help but think “oh no, not this again”. To me, this forced inclusivity is off putting and I don’t want to feel that way about something that should be a positive thing.</blockquote>

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