So THAT's why Regdar gets no love...

[Remathilis]

Monte Cook posted the ignoble creation of Regdar, the Iconic Human Male Fighter and talks a bit about gender and racial equality.

http://montecook.livejournal.com/150303.html

Might explain why he seems to die an awful lot in D&D artwork

 

[I'm A Banana]

Don'tcha just adore preconcieved notions?

As in, hate them?

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Heh, I wondered why there were two Fighters. Still, it kinda worries me how the people on that site talk gleefully about seeing Regdar maimed and dead in the artwork. Like violence is the solution to perceived...I'll stop there. Forum rules and all.

 

[pawsplay]

I think the crowning ignomy is that Regdar is The Fred. He has a 13 Charisma and is a leader type.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I always liked Regdar.
I guess that makes me racist/sexist.

Though now I see him as more of an iconic Warlord instead of a Fighter. That seems to have been his original intent, as the apparent leader of the iconics group.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Don'tcha just adore preconcieved notions?

As in, hate them?

Indeed.

I am a white male in a predominantly white country. But after watching Andromeda, cool warriors are black. So, I reject your stereotypes and substitute my own!

Marketing can be so incredibly ridiculously sexist and racist...

 

[Dragonbait]

Strangely enough, I never knew Regdar was supposed to be white until all these race threads started cropping up.

I figured that whenever he was clearly white, like his 1st mini or in the 4E book, people were confusing Jozan with him or they just made a mistake.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Geez, for once I'm on the side of the marketing weasels. I feel like I oughta go take a shower or something.

 

[CountPopeula]

I think, avoid race and gender because we've already been in that minefield recently, that the dead Redgars are a statement about marketing interfering with the creative vision.

I find it comparable to Battlestar Galactica, when marketing asked them to have "a birthday party or something" and they did the 1000th landing ceremony where like 7 people were killed. I think the dead Redgars are a message to marketing that says "If you force us to change our vision, we don't have a choice, but you're not going to like the end result."

 

[kenmarable]

I always liked Regdar.
I guess that makes me racist/sexist.

Liking Regdar doesn't make you racist/sexist by any means. Marketing people saying "we need a white male to be front and center" is racist and sexist. Very big difference there. Don't go looking for insults that aren't there. If you re-read it, Monte Cook never claims that fans who like the character are racist and sexist.

Individual fans making a choice to like a character is a far cry from marketing people presuming that ALL fans will ONLY like the character as long as he's a white male. Very different things. So feel free to gladly like Regdar without believing the Monte is condemning you.