You got duped lol

Shhh, don’t ask questions about game practicality, player dynamics or group synergy. They just need to be more inclusive.

They should only focus on Anglo-saxon game settings, replace Matt as the DM so they can visit 1 other type of imaginary place (because a Latino DM inventing a place which loosely takes inspiration…

Two groups? How would that even work?

Uhh... you’ve clearly never played D&D if you think they can just add more people to a game that already has eight main members.

Diversify the cast. Why should people of color be only guest players or consultants?

I don’t think there’s anyway our viewpoints are gonna align on this.

If I spent hundreds if not thousands of hours working on something with my friends, and that something became successful and beloved, and I was then randomly kicked off and replaced to make the IP appear more culturally sensitive, I’d be pissed and I…

Was Aabria just a ‘guest’ when she DM’ed the entire Exandria Unlimited mini-campaign? Is Robbie not *non-white enough* to count, despite being a new permanent cast member? How many of the main cast need to change, exactly?

“You can just, you know... Expand your cast? Bring in multiple guests who exist within these worlds and you make sure the story telling centers them as autonomous entities at least most of the time.”

They’ve literally being doing this since season one. The precursor to the current campaign was run by Aabria Iyengar,…

So people should only roleplay in settings that match their culture and characters of their own race. Got it. Cool, cool, cool, excellent.

You’re one of two people in this entire comment section that is blatantly okay with this horseshit “article”. Maybe step back and realize if you and one or two other people are trying to “call out” an entire comment section, maybe you’re the one with the bad take? This isn’t appropriation, this is major league, cringe…

Should a campaign predominantly made up of white cast members only focus on “white” settings then? That seems like white-washing of a different, more exclusionary, and problematic kind.

I actually try to have difficult conversations regarding race and appropriation with anyone I can (I’m a white DM who wanted to run a…

okay, well what about me then? Because that was my reaction as well, and I’ve sure as shit made more than three comments.

This is getting absolutely absurd. I’m a diehard leftist, and every single of these knee jerk reactionary articles makes us all look bad. This is exactly what the right wingers in our country think…

I’ve been expecting an article like this since the campaign setting was announced. It is, for better or worse, where we are today.

Yeah, the use of the word “objective” is really sloppy here. There really shouldn’t be a question about the ability to understand objective truths, since something objective is not influenced by personal feelings or opinions. I can, for example, understand that China has a population of 1.402 billion people, despite…

“One of the core concepts of Orientalism as a field of study is that even the most well-meaning scholars from the Western world are unable to present objective truths about the Orient. The Western view of the Orient is forever tarnished by the legacy of colonialism and fictionalized history.”

A bunch of white people start streaming their home game 5 years ago, become wildly popular, and now they’re not allowed to do anything that anyone else playing D&D are allowed to do ever again.

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”

You said it yourself - this might be a cynical, bad faith interpretation. That right there is an admission that you know there’s probably a perfectly reasonable counter-argument that you conveniently omitted from your article in an effort to steer the narrative one way: the click generating, socially inflaming way.

This crap makes me wish D&D would go back to being something we all just kinda did in secret with our friends and the greater population shunned it.

THANKYOU.GIF