I can think of at least one time they encountered a human within the show, when their rivals the Sour Grapes Gang sent some creepy little dancer girl to deliver a message.

Course: reverse racism II, electric boogaloo

Wait, I think I just discovered the first case of reverse, reverse racism? I’m pretty sure they have to name something after me for this.

Shuri was shouting internet memes though. Wakanda didn’t let the outside world know much about it but it sent War Dogs around the world learning about the world, and has presumably done so for centuries. Wakanda imports culture, it just doesn’t export it. Well, it didn’t.

“Wakanda should belong to all of Africa”

The problem with making up a new culture for whole cloth would be that it would no longer be an African Nation, but a nation that happened to be in Africa. You at least would need to be influenced by African things to say it was African.

Unless Wakanda was the mother culture of them all. Or cultural exchange. It is not clear, purposely so, how much contact Wakanda had with other cultures, and when they decided to isolate themselves.

Well to be fair, there were five tribes that settled around the vibranium meteor, and called it “Wakanda.” This was explained in the first two minutes of the movie. I’m not really sure why the preservation of separate and distinct tribal cultures in a fictional nation would be a problem, when it happens in real life…

I understand what your wife is coming from but I think they wanted to show representation of different parts of Africa. I don’t think they were trying to be ignorant. I know I saw it with a girl from Ghana and she was excited to see an Ashanti mask and kente cloth in the movie. If you focus on one region others feel…

They follow a gorilla god. I don’t know if that one has any actual connection to ancient African religions...especially since none of this is real and it doesn’t have to.

I would say the big difference was that it was representing a super technological fictional African super power. How could you restrict that to just one culture at random and make in theirs? Wakanda should belong to all of Africa.

I didn’t notice any Hindu gods, only African gods like Bast. And since Wakanda is a fictional country, there is no way to use real Wakandan culture, now is there?

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?