Fantasy flight has released a new game and labeled it a Descent game.
They made a very expensive game, with horrible art. The hero selection has no male human/ dwarf fighter characters, no white human male characters at all. The only character that is manly is a black wizard dude that I admit is kind of cool. The male elf ranger character is the most pathetic looking character that they could have designed.
In previous games Fantasy Flight made it a thing to have both male and female represented in their games. The Descent Second Edition game had 1 male and 1 female of every class. You had male fighters and female fighters, male mages and female mages etc. Now in a game that is a freaking 175$ they decided to not include the most popular characters, male human fighters and male dwarf fighters. Their Descent player base is as you expect white and male but they decided to not include it at all in their game.
Sorry for the rant.
Had to make a small edit: One of the characters Vaerix, the Dragon-Hybrid Outcast has neutral pronouns. Cause of course they does.
Fuck it, hold them to their same bullshit standards about "representation".
If I, as a straight white male, don't see myself represented within the game world then I will take my money elsewhere.
This is an unbelievably petty attitude, but it'd be interesting to see their sales figures if white men were as sexist, racist and bigoted as the woke brigade.
This is the inevitable outcome. If they want racial identitarianism, they're going to get it.
Sadly I'm getting there. I see a game with black Vikings or black knights and I usually just pass. I never used to have that before.
Also have you noticed that black characters are the only ones that do not respect their historical settings. I'm following several boardgames on Kickstarter and I noticed that you get asian characters that tend to be asian themed like shaolin monks or samurais, you get aztec inspired characters, latino with a focus on religion inspired by Spanish culture etc but black characters are suddenly Vikings from the fjords and Greek warrior priestess.
It just dawned on me that the creators are just racist and ignorant that they do not know enough about Africans to make proper interesting characters.
That's because nothing about actual "black culture" is acceptable. Hardly anybody knows about real ancient African culture outside your usual aboriginal imagery, which is considered an offensive stereotype, and modern day gangbanger/rap culture isn't any better (and it's not suitable for children either). So they pretty much have to force blacks into other races' mythologies and claim "diversity!"
I do not understand why a powerful warrior from an african themed tribe is not acceptable but a barbarian is. There is no huge difference between them except maybe the weapon. The same can be said about an native shaman vs a tribal witch .
Also, blast them for appropriation of other cultures. Demand that they stay in their lane.