Wizards of the coast issues

Hiring a single woman has absolutely no relevance to whether or not a company was racist.  Or more to the point, whether the material published by said company had issues with racist portrayals of individuals and ethnic groups.  It is, in fact, so far of topic that it raises the question of whether or not it's a deliberate attempt at distraction.

Quote from Portential >>

 You can't prove your position, I was there.  I gave you the name of person you could research very very very very easy.  Do a DuckDuckGo for "Darlene TSR".  Get back to me when you have started your basic education of TSR.  I'll continue with the history lesson.  What I don't like are people going full on racist accusations about a company and they don't know their hand from a potato in the ground on it.

Get back to me, when you have learned who Darlene was and what her contribution was to TSR.  She is beloved by very many people who know her work.

What position? I haven't taken one relevant to this. I've never claimed WotC or TSR had discriminatory hiring practices. I'm not sure I even understand what the relevance is. As I'm reading up on Darlene, I am still not seeing what argument you are making. I don't know that anyone was claiming that TSR or WotC were dens of absolute racism, sexism, ableism, misogyny such that no women, trans*, queer, black, indigenous and racialized people have been employed, under contract or other wise involved with these companies.

You say you will continue with the history lesson apparently against the narrative of racism within the company, but you haven't even started with that. You're just saying it's not true then providing the name of a woman who appears to be white from the Greyhawk/ TSR days, which is great, but doesn't impart a clear lesson. I am looking at some of her illustrations done for TSR and for Jasmine (which doesn't seem to be affiliated with TSR directly), but they aren't very clear in the images I have. I'm tying to find the comic strip version from Dragon Magazine, but it doesn't seem like something widely available. What little I am finding makes it seem like it wasn't well-received, but this happened slightly before I was born so I have little context to evaluate such claims.

You are acting like you are being attacked here. But I honestly can't make sense of the point you are trying to make and that's the extent of what I am saying here. It doesn't feel like this is going anywhere, so I'm bowing out. This feels like it's going to branch into the territory where threads get locked.

Quote from Wellofworlds >>

I am not liking what I see in the future.

1) Wizards of the coast is back stepping to fourth edition with the new monster/npc setup. Very Boring.

2) The woke  extremism that Hasbro has been pushing did not sound good.

3) UA is not even being used anymore, the survey are not open enough to allow everyone to give a opinion. 
     A) UA not being used on D&D beyond. 

4) To many races being created. I like a choice, but now it getting bad.

5) Last two book have been rehash of a different theme.

6) They are not even trying to put out decent story lines. Fey one just seems hacked with revisited themes. It looks boring.

I am not liking what I see. I been playing dungeon and dragons along time. I have played every edition, since first. 
i can honestly say, I feel disappointed. 

1. While I was not here for 4e, I fail to see any major changes to monsters in the "new" statblocks. I am going through monsters in FTOD and TWBTW, and they are practically the same as the old ones. The only difference I can spot is that they got "typically" added in front of alignments, but calling that "new" is extremely stretching it. I am not sure what you are looking at that gives you a different impression.

2. I do not think Wizards is woke. If anything, Wizards is pretty moderate. On the other hand, from what I have seen, some people have moved so far to the right that they fail to distinguish the difference between moderates and liberals.

3. UA are still being created by Wizards, and surveys were open though? If you are complaining about the short time period to give feedback, they have always been this way.
3A. I wish Beyond would do UA too, but they got priorities, and I think a staff member said they reached this decision with Wizards.

4. I do not see how this is even an issue. Just do not use them if you do not want them. Complaining about having more choices in a game that encourages GMs to homebrew and deviate from RAW is like complaining about being offered too much food at a buffet. If you do not stuff yourself at a buffet to the point of sending yourself to the hospital, you do not have to use nor allow every single official or homebrew content at your table either. This is like complaining for the sake of complaining.

5. FTOD is literally what most old and new players are asking for; they want more versions of Monster Manuals tailored towards a specific theme or type of monster. I remember there was even a thread a while back on this forum, and some people even had fun coming up with names for various potential Monster Manuals.

6. TWBTW is not my cup of tea in terms of overall plot and theme, but I love the fact that there is less focus on combat and more on social encounters. Practically everything is a rehash of something else, and whatever you find new and refreshing is old and stale to someone else. Alice in Wonderland with a coat of D&D paint is new and refreshing to me, even though I do not really care for the paint. I have been running D&D like its a chess game, and for me, that can get a little old, and I want to spice things up with obstacles that martial prowess cannot overcome. TWBTW does not really deliver on that fully, but it is a step in the right direction and it gives me something to work with and expand on.

This thread has deviated completely off anything related to D&D and so will be locked