They probably will sperg about it, while the model collectors and tournament whales will keep buying, the normies will get into it once the "problematic" aspects of the Imperium get purged, and the SJWs and intelligentsia will cheer on GW for scoring one for the progressive team.
Reminds me; you know what actually got me looking into the 40k rabbit hole way back in the long long ago? A kitbashed 2nd edition marines army called "The Sons of Elvis". It's exactly what it sounds like (with the exception of the Chaplain, which for some reason was modeled after Little Richard). I bought a copy of 1st Edition Space Hulk that very convention.
Exactly. People fell in love with the OG 40K because it was campy humor, not because of "MUH GRIMDARK ATMOSPHERE". The Starcraft marines are more in sync with the original Rogue Trader Space Marines than the Adeptus Astartes of the 3rd Edition-7th Edition.
Unlike video games and certain sections of the science fiction genre, D&D seems to have taken the same route as comics and opened the gates willingly to the SJWs. Probably because unlike sci-fi blockbusters and video games, D&D isn't for normies, but a small core of nerds who still play tabletop games. So there isn't really much pushback when SJW nerds push for inclusivity in the D&D space. At this point, they're probably just happy more people are coming in, queer or not.
As a group grows in number the number of numbers in said group will increase as well by the simple factor of math.
That's what I meant before when I said that fans of the older 40K editions and units can just play that shit with friends and let the normies wallow in the new editions. Problem is, as many people here pointed out, finding people who will play the older editions with you is the hard part, unless you have friends that do.
That's practically it. I even remember seeing someone playing the tabletop using Guilliman to crush a C'tan shard in combat. For all intents and purposes, that was the 40K version of Rey deflecting Palpatine's lighting back at him with two lightsabers when we just saw the latter fry a whole fleet with said lightning.
It's the same thing as peddling drugs for gangs; they make so much money, they can't resist doing it. Except with SJW/LGBT D&D, not only is it legal, but you will be lauded by society for it. Hence why they would go full-throttle with it, not only to get all that funding, but to also gain the support and acclaim of the media and SJWs everywhere.
Call it too optimistic, but RPG's have one advantage; you and your group don't have to abide. There is nothing stopping you using what system you want, making whatever table or etiquette rules you want from Woke to "Lol Fags and Troons not welcome".
As I said before, you can always play whatever edition of whatever game you feel is best. So long as you have friends who will join you, of course. Which isn't always the case, especially since most newbies will abide by the rules that the official game owners have.
Hardly anyone near me seems to be running anything that isn't 5e D&D - LGS always hosts D&D nights twice a week where most of the groups gather, and from what I've seen it's plagued with wokeness (which is to be expected when the majority of people there are university students), perhaps it could be worth looking online for a group to play some other system but nothing really compares to the feeling of being physically there in the company of other human beings.
They were wallowing in the muck from day 1 IMO. At least one of their writers trooned out to avoid scrutiny over his sexual history, and one of their sourcebooks contained a bestiality origin story courtesy of Phil "Satyros" Brucato.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. Find a system you like and run it, whether its capeshit, horror, fantasy, military, or sci-fi. You’ll eventually get people looking to join, and then you filter out the trannies, SJWs, edgelords, sex pests, and alright dudes with clashing personalities. That last one might seem benign, because they’re alright dudes, but those kinds of arguments can bomb a campaign after you get invested in the group, as opposed to the trannies and edgelords destroying the group before.
Setting up a system like that is the easy part. It's finding people who will play with you in person that's the challenge. But I suppose even among the normies who play D&D or Warhammer the normal way, you can find some people disappointed with the way things are running, and you can approach them and ask them if they'd want to play a different mode of play.
Ya gotta pound the pavement to find that group and it'll take some filtering. Lord knows, the group I have and treasure now didn't come about overnight. We've had to vett, expel, and kick out many souls who brought the table down. Once you find that group, hold on tight and treasure em like a lover, cuz you might never find another that good again.
Wait, which sourcebook was this?
Changing Breeds. One canon explanation for how a CB is born is humans fucking animals. Fans of WW always joked about the book and shapeshifters generally because of how they seemed designed to attract animal-fuckers and otherkin.
If it's the book I'm thinking (New World, right?), I must have missed that part. Now I'm morbidly curious.
