Hi Folks,
Here's an article about this:
https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/23349686/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-vs-nutsr-tsr-justin-lanasa-racist-transphobic-star-frontiers IP theft aside, the quotes allegedly taken from the game do seem pretty damn racist, so Wizards of the Coast might be the proverbial stopped clock in this case--little of what the Woke Mob calls racist is actually racist, but this seems pretty much actual racism:
Now, I agree with them about BLM, and sickle cell "enemia" [sic], but the other crap? Damn.
I stress that this is the allegation--maybe those quotes about "Negro" and "Nordic" don't actually appear in TSR's material, but I think it would be dumb for WOTC to just make this up wholesale. Still, even if it's true, as abhorrent as it might be (and should earn TSR a bright red place on "The List"), there still is freedom of the press and they have every right to publish whatever they want. (Just don't expect me to buy that crap, though.) And I frankly don't care if WOTC thinks it "harms their brand"...they've done a pretty good job of that themselves without any help from others.
Of course, the question of IP theft is one that the courts must decide, and I'm neutral on that one--I don't have much info on that.
All this makes me sad, really. I would have loved to see a revived TSR to compete with WOTC...but why the explicit racism??