Dungeons & Dragons faces criticism for changes to its rulebook aimed at making the game more inclusive by removing harmful stereotypes associated with fantasy races. While some celebrate the move, others argue that the changes will detract from the game's traditional appeal.
“My first Dungeon Master was an anti-racist skinhead,” Jeremy Cobb says of his introduction to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
“For me, overall, from the creative side, the game is doing better than ever,” says Cobb, who started playing in 2018 and is now a professional Dungeon Master . “But from the business side, fan relationship side and culture war side? No, not really.” Writing in Wargamer – a site dedicated to tabletop games and wargaming – the writer Timothy Linward conceded that D&D’s earliest version of orcs as “a simple violent threat to civilisation that needed to be pacified by brave adventurers” had “unfortunately echoed stereotypes used against tribal and indigenous subcultures”, but argued that the game’s “core fantasy relies on the existence of uncomplicated baddies”.
He sees two issues in the background of D&D’s “culture war” – an old guard of players unsettled by a more diverse wave of fans attracted by the boom in online content and D&D featuring in, and lingering tensions between the game’s publishers and fans over previous, unconnected attempts to maximise profits from the game.
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