How A New Generation Of Gamers Is Pushing For Inclusivity Beyond The Table
How A New Generation Of Gamers Is Pushing For Inclusivity Beyond The Table
How A New Generation Of Gamers Is Pushing For Inclusivity Beyond The Table
By Christopher Thomas
January 2, 2023
Summary
Aabria Iyengar is something of a celebrity game master, or someone who facilitates TTRPG sessions for players at a table.
Recently, actual plays have been finding port with a new generation of gamers, many of whom come from more diverse backgrounds. Old School Renaissance, or OSR, is a gaming movement whose players claim they are "Against outside politics permeating their game space," said Dashiell.
OSR gamers are often seen as the old guard of tabletop gaming and tend to idealize the past, which "Defaults to a white, masculine worldview," Trammell said.
In the summer of 2020, amid a reckoning on race and inclusion throughout many industries, Wizards of the Coast released a statement outlining steps it was taking to help "Everyone to feel at home around the game table and to see positive reflections of themselves within our products."
Wizards of the Coast also recently presented a new vernacular for the upcoming rule changes to the game replacing instances of "Race" with "Species."
Coyote & Crow began as a reaction to seeing games featuring characters of different cultures without having the same representation behind the scenes building the game.
Reference
Thomas, C. (2023, January 2). How a new generation of gamers is pushing for inclusivity beyond the table. PBS. Retrieved January 25, 2023, from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/how-a-new-generation-of-gamers-is-pushing-for-inclusivity-beyond-the-table