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Dungeons & Dragons Asks Fans To Help Shape The Future Of Their Products, Especially Want Feedback “From Fans Who May Have Been Underrepresented Historically”

August 12, 2020

Dungeons & Dragons recently called on fans to take a survey to help them shape their future products. They also stated they wanted to especially "hear from fans who may have been underrepresented historical...

Dungeons & Dragons Adds Trigger Warnings For Old Products

John F. Trent

July 9, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

Dungeons & Dragons announced they have added trigger warnings to a number of their old products. This new announcement comes after their "Diversity and Dungeons & Dragons" announcement that revealed ...

Former Dungeons & Dragons Freelancer Orion Black Accuses Wizards of The Coast Of Exploiting Black People

John F. Trent

July 9, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

Former Dungeons & Dragons freelancer Orion D. Black posted an open letter accusing Dungeons & Dragons' parent company Wizards of the Coast of exploiting black people. Not only does Black accuse the c...

Wizards of the Coast Removes Lizbeth Eden from Magic Creator Program for “Photos Featuring Nudity and Sexualized Posing”

Spencer Baculi

July 3, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

Wizards of the Coast has removed Magic: The Gathering content creator Lizbeth Eden from the game’s creator program, accusing her of “distributing Magic content that is against our Code of Conduct.” Eden anno...

Dungeons & Dragons Confirms “Sensitivity Readers” and Announces They Will Change The Nature Of Race Mechanics Moving Forward

Jorge Arenas

June 24, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

Wizards of the Coast and their Dungeons & Dragons team confirmed they have used "sensitivity readers" in their latest campaign books and announced they will be changing the nature of race mechanics moving f...

Wizards of the Coast Confirms They’ve Ended Their Relationship With Magic: The Gathering Artist Terese Nielsen

Spencer Baculi

June 23, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

Wizards of the Coast has confirmed that the company has ended their working relationship with Terese Nielsen following last year’s backlash towards the veteran Magic: The Gathering artist’s conservative politic...

Dungeons & Dragons Principal Rules Designer Jeremy Crawford Confirms Game’s Progressive Direction Towards Race Mechanics

Spencer Baculi

June 16, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

In response to fan complaints about Dungeons & Dragons’ racial mechanics, Principle Rules Designer Jeremy Crawford has indicated that the game’s design team will be moving towards providing certain races wi...

Wizards of the Coast Removes Several Cards From Magic: The Gathering Calling Them “Racist or Culturally Offensive”

Spencer Baculi

June 12, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

In the wake of the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, Wizards of the Coast has announced that they will be “removing a number of images from our database that are racist or culturally offensive” fr...

Magic: The Gathering Appears To Add Autumn Burchett, Known for Defacing Cards With Anti-TERF Messages, To Official Lore in New Ikoria Set

Spencer Baculi

April 3, 2020

Tabletop Games & RPGs

Autumn Burchett, a professional Magic: The Gathering player who previously garnered attention for attempting to play in an official tournament using cards defaced with anti-TERF messages, appears to have been o...

Magic The Gathering’s War of the Spark: Forsaken Novel Confirms Chandra Nalaar “Had Never Been Into Girls”

Spencer Baculi

November 16, 2019

Books

Magic: Gathering's recent War of the Spark: Forsaken novel by Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, Star Wars Rebels, Young Justice) confirms that Chandra Nalaar, "had never been into girls." Some fans of the extended Ma...

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