Nothing says “this is not vapid tokenism” like boiling down characters’ backgrounds into quantifiable numbers to determine if they meet a sufficient token threshold.
This is what happens when you ask engineers to do representation.
I absolutely love that they got some MIT weirdos to sit in a room and decide (as per the screenshot in the blog post) that the Egyptian ethnicity is a 7/10 on the diversity scale and the Arab race is also a 7/10.
turning a big dial taht says “Diversity” on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
in the new rpg i try to max out ethnicity as fast as possible but i prefer to keep body type as close to zero as possible, i don’t think the tradeoff from having 20+ points in body type is worth it
imo high gender builds are really slept on this patch… been having a lot of success beelining to 26 for spell access and twinking in early areas. “Forbidden Gender Triad” wrecks low level opponents
I know Torb is a dwarf I just never made the connection that he’s a dwarf because they were trying to include people with dwarfism. I thought it was just a Blizzard/WoW type thing where they’re staying in their wheelhouse. Rein has giant pauldrons and Moira looks like an Elf. I thought it was just them doing them.
Maybe I’m just stupid.
No, its just them backtracking and trying to retcon their own design into being diverse, he’s 100% just a fantasy dwarf but with technology, he speaks in the fantasy dwarf dialect with a slight tinge of Swedish in there, I’m pretty sure they felt the need to make a second Swedish character just because people pointed out how he’s literally just a dorf.
