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<blockquote data-quote="AstroCat" data-source="post: 8931410" data-attributes="member: 6320">The older &quot;white dudes&quot; that mostly carried the hobby for the last 40+ years are for sure not the future market, but they are still part of it. The younger and that is very wide take, like 40 years of it varying a lot overall is still white males of all ages that spend the money.Now look, my family is mixed ethnicity and my son is not a &quot;white male&quot;, he is totally the just getting going growth generation that wotc says they want to get but he is still not representative of the vast majority of &quot;new potential players&quot;. And again to be clear hell yes I want him to be able to see himself represented in the art and stories of games he plays. So yes the some rationally proportionate &quot;diversifying&quot; of the art and characters is cool with me. I just see they way wotc is going about it is often more harmful and ham handed than positive and often straight up vindictive, spiteful, mean spirited and disingenuous.I want everyone to be welcome and represented, not one group at the expense of another. And it's interesting my son is actually under represented in D&amp;D right now, so it gets really messy when someone had to divvy up the representation priority list.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AstroCat, post: 8931410, member: 6320"] The older "white dudes" that mostly carried the hobby for the last 40+ years are for sure not the future market, but they are still part of it. The younger and that is very wide take, like 40 years of it varying a lot overall is still white males of all ages that spend the money. Now look, my family is mixed ethnicity and my son is not a "white male", he is totally the just getting going growth generation that wotc says they want to get but he is still not representative of the vast majority of "new potential players". And again to be clear hell yes I want him to be able to see himself represented in the art and stories of games he plays. So yes the some rationally proportionate "diversifying" of the art and characters is cool with me. I just see they way wotc is going about it is often more harmful and ham handed than positive and often straight up vindictive, spiteful, mean spirited and disingenuous. I want everyone to be welcome and represented, not one group at the expense of another. And it's interesting my son is actually under represented in D&D right now, so it gets really messy when someone had to divvy up the representation priority list. [/QUOTE]

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