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.
In addition to the SJW part, I am also alarmed by the price of the board game.
$175 for a board game?! Even a decent Magic the gathering deck isn't that expensive. That's about 9 times the price of a higher end $20 classic board game that seems to be the standard nowadays. Heck, if you're creative, inventive, and clever, you could make a real good board game with salvaged pieces from what you could find at the Goodwill's used board games section plus a few something's from Dollar Tree.
What about this board game that is driving up the price so much? I almost think that this is a front for something much more sinister.
You are paying for paintable action figures for a lot of these games. There is a level where it's nice to have premium components and tokens to help you get immersed in a game but a lot of these Kickstarter are over-the-top. Someone found the formula of 2 - 4 player dungeon crawler with 250 miniatures that range up to two ft tall and people will pay a couple hundred bucks for it.
Gloomhaven came out and it sold well so it proved that there is a market for expensive games that play without a DM. Board game companies decided it sold well because it was expensive rather then despite of it. So now a ton of companies are making overpriced games that go in to the hundreds of dollars. I honestly have no idea why but I am never going to pay this ridiculous amount of money on a game.
So you get average games but with better miniatures, if you look at kickstarters they focus on the quality of the miniatures more then gameplay. Look at this angel hero and how cool it looks or this female pirate (all pirates are female now in all games). I for one do not care much about the miniature, if it somewhat resembling the monster we are fighting I'm ok.