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While we are grateful to Wizards of the Coast for making this decision the road to it was fraught with anxiety and corporate greed. We continue to stand with the #OpenDnD movement and the newly announced Open RPG Creative License (ORC). We look forward to expanding our TTRPG horizons and sharing our stories in fresh, unique, and fun ways. We have many more stories to tell, stick with us.
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So much of D&D and all TTRPGs is the use of our imagination to step into the experience of someone other than yourself. We believe that our local community of Nashville where we live and the online D&D Community where we play are made stronger by diversity, equity, and representation.
The Rowdy Boys of ChasmQuest are anti-racist. Which means: we are constantly checking ourselves and our communities for any participation in white supremacy overtly or covertly. This entails educating ourselves and those around us, and listening to black and brown voices, while also making space for black and brown participation at our gaming table. We also search for racism within our groups of family and friends, systems of employment, and our local governments. When we find it we are both vocal and practical about change. This shouldn’t be a task that pops up every time there is an act of anti-black violence presented in the media; we want to be very clear that black lives matter, have mattered, and will continue to matter. We have not used CQ as a platform before to this extent but find it to be necessary now. We will use our communal grief and frustration to energize our anti-racist actions.
The demonization of the ‘other’ is common both in the ChasmQuest narratives, and unfortunately in our own world. In the show we fight to end cycles of oppression, and continue to do so out of game in our own communities.
Below are resources we’d like to share to keep us and our listeners educated and active:
diverse Voices in ttrpgs:
Islands of Sina Una - a campaign setting for D&D 5e written and created by an all Filipino Team
Organizations:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
american friends service COMMITTEE - Abolish Ice
Human Rights Campaign - lgbtq+ Rights