Okay, folks, I am going to be travelling for most of today so won't be around and need your help to self-moderate.
I'm a bit worried about some of the heated language in this thread already, and by a comment that implied the original video shared might be coming from a political angle that wouldn't be appropriate here. I don't have time to watch it myself right now, but can I ask people not to share videos here if all their content wouldn't be something we should be saying ourselves on these forums?
Similarly, I don't want to log in later and find out that this debate has been unnecessarily politicised. If you don't accept that WotC are simply (even if in some cases misguidedly) trying to increase flexibility and choice for players, and must attribute the changes to them (possibly misguidedly again) looking to decrease stereotyping and increase diversity and representation in the game, please bear in mind there will be plenty of people here who are in favour of diversity and representation and against stereotyping (even if they don't think that what WotC are doing is related to that or helps with it) and refrain from being dismissive. Personally, I'd recommend just sticking to the pros and cons of the changes and leave theories about WotC's reasons for them to one side, but if the latter are discussed respectfully, civilly and calmly then that would be fine.
And the standard reminder to recognise when you've made your position clear and not to keep repeating it, and when it is time to agree to disagree.
And my apologies for the perhaps premature moderation here, as we don't seem to have fallen off the rails yet, and I hope you can understand that it's only because I don't want things to kick off while I'm unavailable!
