To paraphrase the comedian Doug Stanhope: If you lose your job or your admission to college to someone who just moved here and for whom English is a second language, maybe you’re not the master race. Maybe you are just stupid, lazy, and looking for an excuse.

You are correct, that D&D can be about whatever you want it to be. There are also official stories (adventure paths) that you can purchase that take you through a guided story, from start to finish.

Bingo. There’s nothing that’s ever stopped a DM from doing this. All they’re doing is drawing more attention to the fact that the adventure books that some DM’s use as a crutch does it for them.

D&D’s always been inclusive, because there’s nothing in the rules that explicitly states the DM can’t have LGBTQ characters or NPCs. The freedom’s always been there, you just need a DM who’s creative enough to make use of more diversity.

This.

Because D&D has had marginalized groups in its DNA since the very beginning?

This seems more to just be about having gay nonplayer characters in the official campaigns, not encouraging players to make their characters gay. That said, a DM can make the NPCs whatever they want, regardless of what they are in the campaign by default.

Maybe I’m wrong with this but... Isnt D&D basically what ever the players want it to be? Or is this some unwritten rule that if you play official stories you have to follow it by the letter?

As a white guy, I only see one person at fault—the person who couldn’t figure out when to keep her mouth shut. By repeatedly and deliberately getting under his skin, and basically rubbing salt in a very deep wound, she got exactly what she was asking for. Can’t be bothered to extend the slightest bit of decency to a…

for real.. them damn white people.. they are the only ones on the whole earth who do that stuff lol.

I’m not here for the bullshit and false equivalences today. You will be dismissed.

We have Trump because America has a bunch of racist assholes who are willing to screw themselves over economically just to fuck over people of color? Yeah, that sounds right.

I know. I know it is only bad that Americans die as a result of decisions by Democrats. When they die as a result of decisions by Republicans it is honorable and the Republican leaders meant the only best and we live in the most perfect of all worlds because God ordained made it.

It’s nice to see your political views don’t prevent you being offended by the banal exploitation of the patriotic blood sacrifice of an American.

Having spent 7 years working in a steakhouse, I can attest that there are exactly two kinds of adults who eat steak like this:

Nasreddin’s complaint is yet another example of how people don’t understand what “free speech” means in the context of the First Amendment.

I still disagree that there’s an “outrage media” telling people they “don’t have a right to speak in this way.” There’s a media that reflects that outrageous behavior shouldn’t be part of our society. It seems a split hair, but a significant one.

“Instead of arguing, or discussing, or contradicting, or making a point within established political parameters, we told them people you can’t speak because you’re a racist.”

Now, let me take no joy in predicting how we’ll see exactly the same thing, but from the right, and with all the tools of Government.

Ha. Chomsky is the reason if I left journalism after having been through that exact process that you describe. I agree with a great deal of what you just stated.