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WOTC Puts A Looney Tunes-Style Disclaimer On Old D&D Books

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Todd Doray

Published Jul 11, 2020

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Wizards of the Coast (WotC) scryed a problem with portrayals of people of color in past publications of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons material. Following examples previously employed by the likes of Disney and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warner Bros. (WB), WotC now adds a content warning to the descriptions of Dungeons & Dragons titles released before the current fifth edition (5e). Indeed the additional content advisory uses much of the same verbiage as the WB disclaimer added to their Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes shows back in 2014.

Originally published by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons grew into a monster sensation. Evolved from traditional adversarial wargame roots, Gygax and Arneson's tabletop roleplaying game defined a new genre – one made to bring friends together for cooperative, narrative, make-believe with rules. J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings 🦩books ♌provided much of the inspiration for the fantasy realms presented in early editions of the game.

Through the '80s and '90s those worlds grew to include many regions loosely based on real-world locales. Often the writers would take easily recognized stereotypes and put a fantasy spin on them as a creative shortcut. Although many of those books were popular and best-sellers, 2020 hindsight sees things very differently. Amidst calls for deeper introspection and progressiveness across all their products, including the immensely popular Magic: the Gathering game, WotC hopes to cast purificat💝ion on their image.

WotC announced the n🔯ew policy on Twitter to dꩲecidedly mixed response.

Seems that WotC decided the cut-off date for concern is September 2014. The advisory does not appear on any 5e titles, including those published prior ♔to the decision to modify legacy titles' descriptions. Filtering by edition on the Dungeon Masters Guild storefront reveals the disclaimer appears right at the top of search results for any edition 4e and older, but not 5e.

Fun fact: this is not the first time Dungeons & Dragons crossed paths with Looney Tunes. In 1981 a contributor to Dungeon Magazine (TSR) issue #48 created t💟hese "Saturday 𓂃Morning Monsters" write-up for some loony encounters: