Remathilis
Legend
Inclusion matters. Representation matters. Because people are actually dying out there. Dismissing their fear, and the importance of finding a places where they feel welcome, is more disturbing than I have adequate words to express.
That DnD is becoming more and more a place where everyone is explicitly welcome, and that wotc and other companies are working to make the community as safe and welcoming as possible for people who haven't felt safe or welcome here before, is a huge deal. Regardless of what it does or doesn't do to the sales figures.
Not to knock the struggle for equality or anything, but do you really think having a paragraph expressing that your PC can be non-binary is in ANY WAY equivalent to the real struggles of minorities fighting for Civil Rights?
[MENTION=10754]Evile[/MENTION]eyeore has a (rather poorly stated) point; the paragraph was a nice gesture to the LGBTQ community, but it hardly moved in the needle in terms of acceptance. The Baldur's Gate expansion NPC proved that. I seriously doubt anyone who was remotely interested in RPGs was ever stopped by the lack of such a statement, nor do I think anyone who was predisposed to hate such people found the Light after reading it. In essence, it was a nice sentiment but if anyone things it helped/harmed 5e's sales, they are seriously giving to much credit to gender politics and need to get out Tumblr/Twitter/YouTube echo chamber for a while...