“I love how @Wizards_DnD spread lies in their videos. Painting the 70-80-90 as D&D being played only by what they called "White Dudes". That is not the truth, D&D was ALWAYS open for anyone that wanted to join the group.
Anyone that wanted to join a hobby was welcomed and cherished, cause we wanted to have as many people as we could to play. Gender or Skin colour was not an issue.
Gatekeeping is a relatively new term, and it started popular when people from outside of hobby decide to step in, change it and not necessarily play it, it become a what it is not cause we did not want welcome new faces, but we don't want you to change what we love.
Also here are some pictures from 80 I found on Google. It definitely proves that the hobby was "White Dude Only" hobby.”
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“Have you excluded anyone from the D&D session or have you been excluded?
All comments share my sentiment, there was not a single post saying "I was excluded from the D&S group due to my race/religion/gender"
Keep in mind that D&D was played mainly by so-called Nerds, a group that was bullied and often treated as outcasts - you really think such kids would do to others what they hate the most?”
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I sat at a table in my local game store. The mf couple running it are lgbt. To my left were two boys in their early twenties cuddling, one identifies as female. To my right was a large man dressed in look-at-me-I’m-gay- clothes. Next to me was a heterosexual married man.
Behind me, refusing to sit next to the very-gay-man was a father of a son who was being ridiculed by everybody with the exception of myself and the heterosexual married man.
Their target was on the defensive to their onslaught. He was being derided for being a closet gay.
Despite his being clearly upset and lost for words having been pushed out of his comfort zone. He had given up assuring the community he is not closer gay despite their ‘heavy teasing’ which I learned has been ongoing for several weeks. He only wants to ttrpg.
Then:
The oh-so-gay-guy mentioned how on his way into the store he had seen (Anon) who was “lurking in the street corner talking to some guy.” Everyone fell silent. It transpired how (Anon) who is married to a woman had been their groups previous target, however, his reaction of defending himself from ongoing harassment alleging he is a closet gay, by accusing the store of enabling the lgbt community to bully heterosexual people out of the hobby, and his request they be told to stop doing so, had been sufficient to get him banned from the store.
This happened this year, this week, in Wales.
There are no non-white people actively buying products or hiring table space from the game store which has in effect been taken over by and is run by lgbt promoters, to the detriment of everyone else.
It’s fun for them though.