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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8746533" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I absolutely hate it. On my pizza.You can do what you want to your pizza, of course.The problems are that I find the sweetness to be too strong and the acidity of the tomato and the pineapple is just too much for me and I get bad heartburn. My food should not digest -me-.They also fundamentally ignore two incredibly salient points:Most people don't play D&D, regardless of race.There are way more white people than members of any minority group.Assuming 75% of all D&D players (50,000,000) live in the US we'd get 37.5 million D&D players in the US. Applying US racial demographics, you get around 5.25 million black players. About 1 in every 7 players. Not even getting into population differences, assuming every table has 5 players (DM + 4 Player Party) and all other things being equal you'd expect to see one black player on every other table.But all things aren't equal. Population differences based on area means a lot of tables in rural states are gonna be mostly or entirely white. And it means there's gonna be tables in densely populated cosmopolitan areas with all black folks, or one or two white people and then each other seat taken by a member of a minority.And then you take into account actual real-world friend-groups and you'll find a lot of tables where there are no white people at all for obvious reasons. Of course that sort of goes out the window a -bit- as lots of people play at multiple tables.But just based on the demographics of the US it's a hell of a lot harder to find black D&D players because there's just not many of them before any social or economic factors.Do you have any idea how hard it would be for me to find an entire table of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the area that I live in? Sure, there's LGBTQIA+ people who play D&D, and there's LGBTQIA+ people in my area, but the overlap of those two demographics isn't nearly 100%.When you're looking for a minority of a minority you're not gonna find many. Especially since they're going to be scattered across the entire populace, not all in one spot. Though I suspect I'd have an easier time getting an LGBTQIA+ table together in New York City or Los Angeles than some small town in Wisconsin just because of population density.How many factors play a part in keeping black players from playing D&D? Several. But these two facts are way overlooked and go a long way to explain why there aren't many members of any given minority bellying up to the table.</blockquote>

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