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by rayiner 533 days ago
> Largely the same, I acknowledge it's not being done for me and definitely doesn't impact me. Shrug (or eyeroll if so inclined) and move on

Who is it being done “for” if not for the people who play this game? Don’t you have the same stake in changes to the game as anyone else?
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bluefirebrand 533 days ago
> Who is it being done “for” if not for the people who play this game?

Many changes to media franchises and games are being made in an effort to attract a new audience, or with the belief that it increases appeal to the "modern audience". Emphasis because this is the buzzword phrase that gets used quite a lot to justify changes that are generating some amount of controversy or negative attention. The problem is that "modern audiences" may not actually exist

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techwizrd 533 days ago
Not all changes are for the players. The changes to remove perceived racial biases may improve inclusion for some minority of players. It may be a serious issue for those players, the game designers, or some executive. Just like real world changes to improve inclusivity, most are unaffected and simply move on.

For the changes people care about, Wizards of the Coast (WotC) publishes "Unearthed Arcana" or pre-release versions of content (e.g., bastions, the Monk class, a new Druid subclass). People will playtest the new content and WotC surveys players to get feedback. Based on the feedback, they may make additional changes or even scrap some things entirely.

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Jensson 533 days ago
> The changes to remove perceived racial biases may improve inclusion for some minority of players

Everyone is represented by the same race by the rules, just like the left wants, humans are just one race all with the same abilities. Even all genders have the same stats, so dungeons and dragons was the progressive utopia from the start where every human has no biological differences stat wise.

The only ones who see an issue are those who thinks that black people are orcs, but black people aren't orcs black people are humans just like white people.

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tptacek 533 days ago
Do you play D&D? Have you ever? What was your experience of this like when you did?
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