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

[Ruin Explorer]

The content guys are the ones that broke 'The Understanding' by intentionally tweaking the composition of the iconics to fit their pre-conceived notions of egalitarianism and what should appeal to gamers. They peed in Marketing's cornflakes, not the other way around.

Because Jozan and Hennet weren't enough white human dudes? What you even talking about? Kerwyn too. Jesus, how many white human men do we need exactly before it's not "peeing in marketing cornflakes"? I guess "more than three!". Seems like your position is untenable to me.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

My fiancee actually graduated college with an art degree... Granted, she hasn't done any work in the field, but I just found that funny.

Have you tried crossing her, art-wise or dictating what EXACTLY she should be drawing/painting? Because I'm going to advise you right now against doing that

I think what you need to get, and you half-get already, is that a lot of bloody loathed Regdar regardless of his ethnicity or gender, so crying about how it's "KILL THE WHITE MAN! BOOYAKASHA!"-type stuff seems bogus to the max to me. It's just Yet Another Reason To Hate Regdar.

For the record, I'd also have been happy to see Mialee, Lidda (yes that little twonk Lidda), Nebin, Tordek (like we'd even know that extra-generic dwarf was Tordek) and/or Gimble dead on the floor. Maybe I just hate short people or something though.

 

[hamishspence]

dragon magazine Birth of the Dead article

Thats one example of gleefully killing off Regdar.

That said, wasn't especially interested in the iconic characters.

 

[buzz]

Kudos to Monte for posting that, and kudos to the various artists who have kicked Regdar's ass over the years.

 

[Terwox]

Yes, it is racist, and sexist, that Regdar is a white male human fighter in the center of the art. Yep.

What it isn't is evil, or even necessarily wrong. Racism and sexism are very loaded terms.

Catering to an audience does not make you evil. More poignantly, it isn't even necessarily misguided...

I do disagree with their marketing decision, but at the same time, I think 4E was a good move forward, although it was certainly less than perfect.

 

[Cadfan]

I used to hate the iconics, until I started watching the Dungeon and Dragons PSAs. Now I think they're awesome. Including Regdar.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I used to hate the iconics, until I started watching the Dungeon and Dragons PSAs. Now I think they're awesome. Including Regdar.

What are these Dungeon and Dragon PSAs you speak of? I really really hate the iconics, so I am particularly interested to know.

 

[Voadam]

I used to hate the iconics, until I started watching the Dungeon and Dragons PSAs. Now I think they're awesome. Including Regdar.

D&D PSAs?

 

[frankthedm]

Starting out with a blatant falsehood and sweeping generalization is not the best way to make a point about diversity.

but the powers that be believed that our audience was entirely white males and they needed someone that they could identify with on the cover.

Implying everyone who called the shots thought only white makes played the game is quite different from the powers that be recognizing that the ‘white male’ was a large portion of the market share.

As for the notion that Redgar getting slain repeatedly was racially motivated, those whose job it is to be on the front line, do die a lot.

Also, it generally is safer to depict a male being killed than a female, from a marketing perspective. Depicting a kill on a female runs the risk of someone claiming the art is advocating violence against women. Kerwin got a good amount of abuse too.

 

[danbuter1]

I'm just glad to see that the DnD developers didn't want any white males in their game. Nothing like reverse racism.