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have been playing D&D since edition 2. i did try first edition with a few friends, and it was OK but a bit cumbersome compared to edition 2 which I played the most. i totally skipped editions 3 and 4. and i recently bought edition 5. and i really, really love it. i bought those before they started their woke bullshit about orcs (they see racism where there is NONE and want to show signals they are woke - fuck WoC). i bought the first edition printed of those 5th edition rules, and their PDFs. and seeing how WoC is going woke, thus broke soon, i don't care anymore about future editions. i will keep 5th and never move from it, and watch WoC burn and die from their woke stance.

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All other opinions aside I object to the label "woke" applied to WotC, this term is thrown around without regard and it seems it's come to mean nothing at all.

WotC employed Pinkertons to confiscate cards from a person, they are not "woke" to anyone who earnestly uses that word.

I expect your comment to be deleted anyway, since it seems to me like an off-topic soap box on a non-issue, but still feel that you should get a reply before that happens.

So I ask you this: Do you really expect WotC to burn because their new stance is: "orcs and drow are just as morally and culturally complex as other peoples."? This seems a bit extreme, does it not?

Maybe because I'm coming from the dark eye, "the German DnD", which has always been a bit different for historical reasons, but I'm not sure why you are so offended. I'm genuinely curious in your viewpoint here, since it is so foreign to me.

D&D is an extensive and beloved cultural tradition, and WotC is trying to engineer changes to it. What if the publishers of The Lord of the Rings started selling a version that had been revised for political correctness. Tolkien fans would be upset. If that reaction would be confusing to you, I don't think any explanation could bridge the difference in perspective.

> D&D is an extensive and beloved cultural tradition, and WotC is trying to engineer changes to it

I am sure many Tolkien purists do hate Peter Jackson and/or Amazon.

Personally I'm kind of happy whenever we get to visit Middle Earth.

Why keep using 5th edition rather than 2nd edition?

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