WotC is openly Anti-Miscegenation But I'm the racist for thinking that marrying outside your race is perfectly fine...

https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/04/04/dungeons-dragons-to-remove-half-species-from-players-handbook-claims-entire-the-entire-idea-is-inherently-racist/

Quote"So we're focused on what damage should this creature do. That's why everything goes through inclusion review now so everything in our game brings out delight. Even reprints are going through inclusion review. That's why some older books are changing, too."

Get your hardcopies before they get Stalinized.

I honestly don't know who they think their customers are.

Makes me glad I stopped spending money on their products.

Now when I can get everything converted to OSR games and sell my WOTC books, I will be much happier.

Quote from: David Johansen on April 04, 2023, 11:58:37 PM
I honestly don't know who they think their customers are.

Their customers are brand loyalist who buy it because it says "D&D" on the cover. Who their consumers are, as in who actually uses their shit is beyond me.

Imagine you were a super-racist person who hated minorities but you lived in a tolerant world that would be horrified if you told them what you thought. What would you do differently than what these woke leftists do? I can't think of a single thing.

Quote from: Doctor Jest on April 05, 2023, 12:38:43 AM
Imagine you were a super-racist person who hated minorities but you lived in a tolerant world that would be horrified if you told them what you thought. What would you do differently than what these woke leftists do? I can't think of a single thing.

I would make a good game, instead of shitting on the work of other, better and more creative people.

Quote from: Zelen on April 05, 2023, 12:51:10 AM

Quote from: Doctor Jest on April 05, 2023, 12:38:43 AM
Imagine you were a super-racist person who hated minorities but you lived in a tolerant world that would be horrified if you told them what you thought. What would you do differently than what these woke leftists do? I can't think of a single thing.

I would make a good game, instead of shitting on the work of other, better and more creative people.

I should have specified that you are a subversive commie as well.

What this thread really needs is a half-Korean guy to show up and explain to us why we're wrong and this is actually a good idea.

Quote from: I on April 05, 2023, 01:13:48 AM
What this thread really needs is a half-Korean guy to show up and explain to us why we're wrong and this is actually a good idea.

But it's totally gonna lead to Civil War.

Quote from: Grognard GM on April 05, 2023, 01:23:15 AM

Quote from: I on April 05, 2023, 01:13:48 AM
What this thread really needs is a half-Korean guy to show up and explain to us why we're wrong and this is actually a good idea.

But it's totally gonna lead to Civil War.

Between the Halfs and Half-Nots?

D&D has just solved waaacisim in one move. Yaay! Let's all bake cup cakes together.

Well, if they are going to neuter all the races by making them the same, that does make the half-races rather redundant.  What's missing is the next logical step, of just removing all races altogether. It's all going to be humans cosplaying different shades of cultures while totally not culturally appropriating anything--unless you are deemed a white male*, in which case you should just kill yourself so that everyone else can game secure in the fact that you won't be around. 

You can be any "race" you want, any "culture" you want, any "gender" you want--as long as you do so in an approved manner for 21st century Seattle.  Yay diversity!  And I thought all the non-conformists in the '60s and '70s that all dressed alike, thought alike, and so on where notable for their cognitive dissonance.  Complete pikers compared to what we have now.

This is all coming from someone that doesn't really like half races.  WotC has this amazing ability to even when they do something that on the surface goes in the direction I'd like, still manage to completely screw it up.  They are worse than the proverbial blind squirrels and the stopped clock.  When they find a nut in spite of themselves, it's got a bacterial infection.  When they have the correct time, it's attached to a bomb.

* Not valid for certain approved cultures which are only deemed white when engaged in activities counter to the enterprise but are allowed when temporarily allied to the effort.

Is WOTC trying to see just how dumb they can get? Or are they trying to tank the new version of D&D?

I have a theory that a lot of the "people of color" among the high society woke are actually the biracial children of activists from a previous generation.

Put in D&D terms, they are half-elves who are terrified that their human heritage might mean they have "human privilege". Raised by their human mother, they are entirely human in every way that matters culturally, but they have enough superficial elven features to qualify for all of the special equity programs designed to give elves an advantage in human society. They don't want to be challenged on their human ancestry when they attempt to claim these special legal advantages, and so they insist that they, too, are full elves.