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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8905052" data-attributes="member: 14159">Given the sweeping claims some people have made in the name of fighting bigotry, I also absolutely do NOT trust WotC like that.Like this editorial in The Guardian from two years ago arguing the entire fantasy genre as we know it is inherently racist (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/nov/03/racism-fantasy-fiction-role-playing-games" target="_blank">It’s time for fantasy fiction and role-playing games to shed their racist history</a>).  Making just about anything you'd recognize as a D&D adventure or campaign setting would fall under things this editorial calls "racism".There's the nonsense with WotC even removing the term "race" for the game when referring to character races.They'll find SOMETHING to complain about for any work they want to ban, saying it's some kind of bigotry.  Is your big bad villain a woman?  Then your setting is misogynistic.  Are the villains men instead?  Then you're sexist for not being inclusive of women.  Do your dungeons have stairs and ladders instead of ramps?  Then you're being ableist by not accomodating wheelchair-bound adventurers.  Do you not include any LBGT characters in your setting or adventures?  Then you're transphobic or homophobic.  If your LBGT character is a villain or has an evil alignment, then you're being transphobic or homophobic for depicting a trans person as a bad person.  They can cook up any excuse they want, in bad faith, to come up with the excuse to call virtually any content bigoted if they want.  I absolutely would never trust them with any kind of content-approval clause.  It's just a blanket veto power under a fig leaf of diversity.</blockquote>

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