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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8412198" data-attributes="member: 6803643">I’m sorry if I gave that impression with my comments above. Male-identifying authors can write female characters, and vice versa. LGBTQ authors can write straight cisgendered characters. Japanese authors can write European ones and White-Americans can write Subsaharan African mythological tales, too.There are many examples of sensitive nuanced stories written by people without personal experience of the subject matter. And Fantasy itself is a genre that embraces this because much of the subject matter is inherently unknowable.But there’s also a LOT of insensitive stories written from outsider perspectives, and they often dominate perceptions of their subject matter in the eyes of the target audience, especially when these stories are written by people with cultural, racial, gender, sexual, or economic privilege within the society of the target audience.D&D has long occupied the latter in what material is published officially by WotC, by virtue of the brand originating at tables of white male American gamers. That doesn’t mean they haven’t made strives to be more inclusive and celebratory! 5e is the most inclusive and celebratory edition yet. But the work never ends. There’s always more we can do.I started this subthread because I believe that a revision of 5e in 2024 is an optimal chance to bring the values now espoused in books like Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything into the core rulebooks. WotC have said as much that that’s what they want to do. I also think they have a chance to go a step farther. By the time we get to 2024, it’ll have been more than 4 years since writing on Tasha and Curse of Strahd Revamped completed. A lot can happen in those years. A lot has happened, already.I suggested that “Samurai” could become a core rules option but under a new name, to both allow continuity of character concept and tweaking of the Fighter to be more like what the designers have said they wish it was in hindsight. I recognise that the republishing of Xanathar’s Guide in next year’s gift set makes that less likely, but I still think it’s worthwhile.</blockquote>

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