{"id":1041,"date":"2014-07-10T17:17:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:18:05","slug":"new-dd-rules-more-gender-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1041","title":{"rendered":"New D&#038;D Rules More Gender-Inclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, July 8th, Wizards of the Coast released the free basic rules for the fifth edition of the long-running RPG\u00a0<em>Dungeons and Dragons.\u00a0<\/em>For the first time, the rule set contained a section on sex. Here is the full text on that section (<a href=\"http:\/\/gaygamer.net\/2014\/07\/dds-bumpy-road-to-inclusion\/\">Images via GayGamer.net<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion1.png\" alt=\"dnd5inclusion1\" width=\"327\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion1.png 327w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion1-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion1-315x147.png 315w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion1-200x93.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0While the language is admittedly clunky and won&#8217;t enter the annals of LGBT history as one of the best written inclusion statements ever, it is a step forward when you consider that it is progress for the largest and most often played RPG in the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, some of the people involved in the development of the new rules have been noted for their discriminatory and harassing actions in the past. So, while this is a good step for gaming space in general to become more inclusive, there is still a lot that must be done to making these spaces truly open to everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1043\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion2.png\" alt=\"dnd5inclusion2\" width=\"327\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion2.png 327w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion2-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion2-315x139.png 315w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dnd5inclusion2-200x88.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, July 8th, Wizards of the Coast released the free basic rules for the fifth edition of the long-running RPG\u00a0Dungeons and Dragons.\u00a0For the first time, the rule set contained a section on sex. Here is the full text on that section (Images via GayGamer.net). \u00a0While the language is admittedly clunky and won&#8217;t enter the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}