Reply To: D&D officially turning Forgotten Realms sights away from Euro inspired campaigns

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@horati0nosebl0wer by all means rant away.  I don’t think adding Shaar (Africa), Zakhara (Arabia) or Kara-Tur (Far East) makes the game any more inclusive.  It doesn’t even necessarily make the world any more diverse – people can and do play arabian and far eastern characters in the game right now and they have featured in several of the video game adaptations.  It makes the environs in which you could play more diverse, which for an RPG is a good thing.  But of the intention of this is to make d&d players more diverse or inclusive (and honestly I don’t think it is) then it will probably fail.  The game is still only going to be as diverse and inclusive as the people who play it and honestly I don’t think lack of either of these two settings has been keeping people away from playing d&d.  If the intention is simply to open the game up to a wider audience by offer a wider range of game types then it will probably succeed.