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Why is it that Tabletop RPGs and Wargaming are dominated by the white demographic? Is it because of the Medieval European aesthetics that dominate fantasy?
Have you ever had a non-white group member in a campaign, what was it like?

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>Why is it that Tabletop RPGs and Wargaming are dominated by the white demographic?

We know how to read and do arithmetic.

Because it often requires literacy beyond the level of highschool dropout.

White people have the most disposable income, giving us time and resources to participate in these hobbies, and thus making us the primary group to market to.

This is a known economic reality that is slowly but surely changing as other groups gain more disposable income and become more valuable to market to.

>implying MTG, YGO don't

That hasn't stopped others video games though, a whole bunch of minorities play those

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But I always play as an Asian character...

Or maybe, just maybe, it might be because whites are a majority in most western countries?

Video games require less disposable income and free time to get into, generally.

Not for long, user, not for long.

>Have you ever had a non-white group member in a campaign, what was it like?
Yeah, my whole party are slavs, DMed by a jew.

Does he wear kippah for a session? He should.

go back to pol

No, he's an ethnic jew, not a religious one. It's a USSR thing.

There alot of overlap between games at my flgs but the 40k/war machine group is pretty mixed. The ones exclusively playing the also pretty mixed.
I'd say in order of most to least it goes
White
Black
Asians
Hispanic
Other

Fuck the OP, new topic:

What's your guy's encounter that you would really want to see happen in a session with you as the Player that hasn't happened yet?

He could wear it ironically.
C'mon user, get your GM a hat he deserves.

In Finland I play with snow Mongols.

In Japan I played with japs.

Had a few slavs in my games.

I think the location of my table has decided the demographic of the said table.

Give him a gold star for being such a good GM.

That's an excellent suggestion, give yourself pink triangle.

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>How come all my friends are like me? Is it the games fault? Are other races just less economically capable of being friends with me? What gives?

Perhaps this isn't a question you can answer with your current level of knowledge.

Because while white people are not a majority in the United States when measured by "whites vs non-whites" they are still a substantial lead when tallied against an individual ethnicity. Hispanics intermarry with whites more than any other matchup without a gender disparity like asian and white or black and white pairings. Their offspring are often considered "white" in terms of both culture and overall appearance.

Asians, who share a substantial overlap with whites in terms of both overall interests and disposable income, are a very small minority in the United States outside of certain communities.

The idea that every group should include someone who is white, yellow, brown and black is a misnomer from early 90s childrens television. When you break down the numbers as "this % of people also enjoy my hobby. this ethnicity makes up % of the population, assuming they have a similar demographic this % of this % of the population would be represented in my groups" the numbers pan out. If 2% of the total population actively enjoys your hobby and its distributed equally across all groups then it is a natural conclusion that a group who makes up 12% or less of the total population are relatively uncommon. To achieve a Magic School Bus / Power Rangers group demographic it would mean the average black person maintained a dozen time consuming hobbies at all times and any asian outside of Little Saigon literally never slept or worked and subsisted entirely on guest appearances at social events.

>Why is it that Tabletop RPGs and Wargaming are dominated by the white demographic?
because all other demographics couldn't be bothered back in the days. if anything, they'd mock and ridicule you for being such a nerd. now being a nerd is sexy and they want to get on in, asking such stupid questions as you do.

>Is it because of the Medieval European aesthetics that dominate fantasy?
that's part of it but it doesn't explain why women are underrepresented in gaming.

>White people have the most disposable income,
TTRPGs are literally the best value for money, so this is not an excuse.
t. coming from blue-collar worker background

>iving us time and resources to participate in these hobbies, and thus making us the primary group to market to.
the reconquista will be launched from eastern. people will get weapons and training there, it's just a matter of time.

Come on we all want a copypasta story of a nigger chimping out at the table give it to us

Something world- or significant region-threatening. Defeating it would surely leave his mark in history and prove that one jackass wrong...

>the reconquista will be launched from eastern. people will get weapons and training there, it's just a matter of time.

What?

If you mean Eastern United States then lol that is the opposite of the truth

If you mean Eastern Hemisphere even more lol they can't even train their own, actual, standing militaries worth a shit.

>Why is it?
Atheism and western liberal values
>Is it because of the Medieval European aesthetics that dominate fantasy?
No
>Have you ever had a non-white group member in a campaign, what was it like?
yes and basically the same, we're two whites, two Banglas and a Nigerian (all brought up in the UK)

tl;dr: more assimilation to Western culture>more racial diversity in tabletoppan

It's not merely a matter of disposable income. China and India's middle classes have boomed in recent decades, yet ttRPGs and wargames are extremely sparse there. Immigrants from other parts of the world come to the west with a constellation of interests and attitudes, to which western style Veeky Forums is quite foreign apart from 'classic' board games which are familiar in many places. Since ttRPGs and wargames typically require strong language skills and are a niche interest, immigrants are not going to flock to them.

Tabletop wargames and RPGs also spread and gain popularity through word of mouth and playing with friends.People do tend to stick to similar ethnicities as themselves in social settings. Doesn't have to be a race thing, it can be about ease of communication and shared experiences, similar to how social groups also stratify by age.

Because the brown races, with perhaps a few individual exceptions, fundamentally lack a sense of imagination. Hence why they rarely if ever invent anything.

Why is it Veeky Forums allows fucking posts like this when other boards delete them or send you fuckers back to /pol/?

They are very good when it comes to i terracial porn though aren't they. I wonder what it is about a big brown dick penetrating a white girl that's so popular.

I've heard that there's a sizable population of people that play table top RPG's in prison. I wonder if the demographic split is still predominantly white in that setting.

Art imitates life

We have an islander girl and an Indian dude in my reg group, they're just standard nerds like the rest of us.

Because our mods are poltards and not smar/tg/uys.

>Be me. Asian male
>Playing wargame
>half whites, half Asian
>guy brings his black friend
>AY YO, AY YO, WHATS UP MUH NUGGAS?
>seems pretty cool. Start playing game
>HOL UP HOL UP, SO YOUS SAYIN [insert rule here]
>Smacks his lips and sucks teeth when he doesn't understand the rules
>Suddenly starts dribbling basketball out of nowhere
>wherethefuckdidyougetthat.jpg
>keep playing game
>SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT when he dies
>Man, dis be some BULLshhhhhhhhheit
>Takes out his gat and starts shooting at the board
>go play videogames instead

was a good time.

Are you faggots literally retarded at this point that you can't stop calling pol everytime you don't like something? I mean, jesus talk about being a broken record.

I'm black myself

jokes on you trick ass nigga i found #Veeky Forums today

talk shit get hit, shoe fits wear it BITCH

Is this thread intentionally stupid, to reflect back at people how stupid they sound with the endless parade of threads about "OMG THERES A GIRL IN MY GROUP Veeky Forums WHAT DO?!!?!"

Because if it is I approve, but no one is self aware enough to get it i'm afraid

if not kill yourself.

>Video games require less disposable income and free time to get into, generally.

this is in fact why vidya is the leading hobby for low income households and the unemployed. And the media shrieking about millennials giving up on the game and just playing xbox is glorious

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Yes, currently have an Asian guy and a Hispanic guy in on of the group's I play in. And have had minorities in groups in the past. The dynamic of the group doesn't change much, except occasionally an autist will say some racist shit and get stared down.

>Person chooses to pick 6 white middle class males to talk about diversity in board games
>Turns to the crowd of mulattos and asks why they're so racist