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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8491309" data-attributes="member: 6688049">Well, maybe. That's what a team of rational, intelligent, experienced cultural consultants are there for. To make nuanced, human judgement calls.Even though I'm not exactly an atheist, I feel ya there...I always thought that Wall of the Faithless was lame, for the very reasons you stated. Maybe the cultural amends team would bring in a Humanist/Secular consultant for that issue, and gain an objective perspective about the magnitude of the prejudice against nontheism. And Wizards would make commensurate amends.Having deeply and experientially studied the false dichotomy between "faith-based worldviews" and "secular worldviews", I know there are perennial human commonalities that are insensitively trampled on by TSR/Wizards' hamhandedly theistic Wall of the Faithless. I agree with you. And a team of cultural consultants worth their salt would be able to sift through these concerns, and discern their magnitude.So yeah, there very well could be a DRAGON+ amends article about the problematic aspects of the Wall of the Faithless and of the Athar Faction. And it would be perpetually linked to all the product pages which feature the Wall and the Athar. And there'd be a Humanist charity which is supported by those products.A professional Romani cultural consultant is objective enough to find every little piece of text or imagery which shows Romani-based prejudice. Their eyes will see things that laymen won't. They are qualified to objectively weigh the magnitude of those prejudices relative to other Romani-related prejudices they've encountered in their work in many contexts. That's why they're Romani cultural sensitivity consultants.Of course, they would not be brought in to read any work that does not remotely have Romani-based content. For example, in my readthrough of GAZ10, I didn't notice any Romani motifs whatsoever. (thankfully!)Wizards knows how to find specialized cultural consultants. There are persons who are able to intelligently and objectively provide consultation for each of the nine cultures I identified in GAZ10.Even a non-specialized member of the Wizards cultural amends team could put sticky notes on the various issues which may be of concern, and discern which specialists do or don't need to be called to comb through the text. This process would be aided by crowdsourced flagging.Note: I'm guessing that gender representation may be one of the most common prejudices in the legacy products. So the feminist/gender cultural consultant would probably be present for most of the amends discussions.</blockquote>

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