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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 8032652" data-attributes="member: 59554">why do we have to take the whole world into the equation? yes, the RPG community is small compared to the rest of the world, vastly so. but in that community there's still minorities in it who still want to feel welcome, and can bring up real world problems. also the community can grow, but think about it: if someone who is Asian wanted to get into D&D but saw people going to great lengths to defend a D&D book called "Oriental Adventures" do you really think they'd feel welcome? certainly some of them might not care, but others would have to begrudgingly accept that this is a thing (like me!), or just drop their interest entirely.in a similar scenario, (and I can't remember the exact story) six months ago the guild centered around romance novels nearly collapsed because of controversies involved in its board of directors and their attitudes against BIPOC and LGBT writers. now we could just write this off as not being important, romance novels are just a small part of literature, they're all trash, compared to the rest of the world they're small, etc. but it started coming out how hard it was for writers of color to write stories about minority characters or to have LGBT themed romance novels, and this sort of thing had been going on for decades.we shouldn't dismiss something like this because we're a small community. I'm Asian and this fact doesn't change in the context of RPGs.</blockquote>

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