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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8489073" data-attributes="member: 18">LOL.Pretty much every single change WotC have made makes D&amp;D a &quot;broader church&quot; and it's literally not even possible to rationally argue that most of them do not. Removing stuff that was insensitive or potentially so never, ever makes D&amp;D &quot;less broad&quot; as a church.The issue is that some people turn their nose up at this broadening. But WotC have done literally nothing that stops them playing, nor anything which criticizes them. Claiming WotC is &quot;looking to narrow&quot; the player-base and being &quot;less inclusive&quot; when they're literally going out of their way to improve inclusiveness is 1984-style doublethink, frankly. It's like &quot;Oh they took out stuff that might offend someone who wasn't me but didn't offend me, so even though it has absolutely on my game, I'm going to quit!&quot;.If WotC wanted to &quot;narrow the audience&quot; in the way you're describing it would be extremely easy to do so, and they'd have gone a lot harder than they have.Let's be clear, objectively, in a fact-based sense, D&amp;D now is a broader church than D&amp;D in 2014/15. That's not &quot;merely an opinion&quot;. Literally removing stuff which is offensive to some people, but meaningless to others is never &quot;narrowing the church&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8489073, member: 18"] LOL. Pretty much every single change WotC have made makes D&D a "broader church" and it's literally not even possible to rationally argue that most of them do not. Removing stuff that was insensitive or potentially so never, ever makes D&D "less broad" as a church. The issue is that some people turn their nose up at this broadening. But WotC have done literally nothing that stops them playing, nor anything which criticizes them. Claiming WotC is "looking to narrow" the player-base and being "less inclusive" when they're literally going out of their way to improve inclusiveness is 1984-style doublethink, frankly. It's like "Oh they took out stuff that might offend someone who wasn't me but didn't offend me, so even though it has absolutely on my game, I'm going to quit!". If WotC wanted to "narrow the audience" in the way you're describing it would be extremely easy to do so, and they'd have gone a lot harder than they have. Let's be clear, objectively, in a fact-based sense, D&D now is a broader church than D&D in 2014/15. That's not "merely an opinion". Literally removing stuff which is offensive to some people, but meaningless to others is never "narrowing the church". [/QUOTE]

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