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Billyionaire
05/29/23 7:14:11 PM
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https://kotaku.com/lord-of-the-rings-magic-the-gathering-card-game-wizards-1850485344

Next month sees the release of Magic: The Gatherings Universes Beyond expansion for Lord of the Rings. The Tales of Middle-Earth card game will, say creators Wizards of the Coast, introduce a diversity to the endlessly reworked franchise that hasnt been seen before.

Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth is to be revealed in full on May 30, when the mechanics of how the CCG will play are revealed. But ahead of this announcement has come the very welcome news that Wizards of the Coast (WotC) and Middle-earth Enterprises (MEE) plan to make the Third Age a far more representative time to live in.

Which is to say, not everyones white. And if youre feeling the need to start writing a comment about the ethnicity of the Scandinavian nations that inspired...just close the article down now and move on. Your blood pressure is bad enough.
Fortunately, for those whose imaginations can somehow cope with magic walking trees and actual dragons, but not different melanin content in characters skin, theres still plenty of blazing-white fantasy out there in which they can take solace. But for LotR: ToME (as it will surely be called), WotC are somewhat nervously explaining theres to be an exception.

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refmon
05/29/23 7:24:59 PM
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Billyionaire posted...
if youre feeling the need to start writing a comment about the ethnicity of the Scandinavian nations that inspired...just close the article down now and move on

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Anteaterking
05/29/23 7:25:54 PM
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It's not its own game.

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jumi
05/29/23 7:27:19 PM
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I saw people on Twitter complaining about black Aragorn.

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IShall_Run_Amok
05/29/23 7:28:12 PM
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Originality AND diversity?

They targeted gamers

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Medussa
05/29/23 7:30:45 PM
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the last LotR CCG died 15 years ago. this is just a weird magic expansion. you're fired, author who could do absolutely no research into the subject he's writing about.

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Klaus343
05/29/23 7:30:47 PM
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The biggest problem is that most of these companies consider "Diversity" to be "Originality".

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Funkydog
05/29/23 7:32:26 PM
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Oh, so this is why people were bitching about 'black Aragon'

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Billyionaire
05/29/23 7:33:29 PM
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jumi posted...
I saw people on Twitter complaining about black Aragorn

The only problem I have with it isn't that he's race swapped, but that the people of his kingdom now don't look like him which doesn't make sense because they're all of the Numenorian line. If Aragorn's black then all of the people descended of the line should be black too, necessarily. Just seems like an oversight by the devs

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andel
05/29/23 7:33:57 PM
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i feel bad for whoever will have to read all the death threats sent by lunatics

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