Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling

Re:Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling by Sander_Marechal on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:22AM (#38680615)

They will never release another Dark Sun. It is waaay to vile and racist. Personally I love the setting, but there is zero change they could publish it without some serious backlash from a lot of people ... for who that content is not intended. Let's put it that way.

If they ever release something with the name Dark Sun, it will be that in name only. Disconnected from the original. Even worse than Spelljammer.

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Re:Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling by red-iron-pine on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:03PM (#38687438)

racist? really? more than Tolken... or literally anything else D&D related?

sounds like another tumblr "anything I don't like is 'problematic'" take.

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Re:Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling by webmaven on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:05PM (#38691687)

Yes, more than Tolkien.

It isn't just racism and racist stereotypes (DS halflings as "jungle primitives" as one example), but a history of extensive genocides, widespread cannibalism, pervasive oppression and slavery, systematic forced breeding to create the Mul player race...

All wrapped up in a very violent grim-meathook-future milieu.

Any one of these could be fixed without neutering the setting, but probably not all (or even most) of them at once. Even with the most respectful approach to the material, by the time you were done fixing, it just wouldn't be Dark Sun.

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