Sixteen current and former workers across TTRPG publishers spoke with WIRED to say that, in the industry of fantasy games, signing your contract might be where the fantasy ends. (From 2021)
to the game’s “descriptions that are painfully reminiscent of how real-world ethnic groups have been and continue to be denigrated.” Paizo employs several LGBTQ staffers and proudly puts out RPG books including nonwhite, nonmale characters, settings, and story lines. “We haveon fantasy Africa. One of our recent books has a trans woman paladin on the cover.
Sources say Paizo has proportionally more woman, nonbinary, and LGBTQ employees than other publishers. At the same time, former Paizo employees say they too felt tokenized when they didn’t fit into traditional concepts for who plays these tabletop role-playing games. “There was just some kind of explicit ‘Oh, we need to have a woman on our team for this charity event’ or ‘We need to have a woman on the stream, this panel, for optics reasons,’” says one former employee.
Workers organizing the Paizo union say it doesn’t have to be like this. “There’s a general feeling that ‘getting’ to work in gaming is supposed to be part of its own reward, so we should put up with getting paid less than other industries pay for the same jobs,” says a current Paizo employee. “I think people also accept this because there’s a general understanding that TTRPGs are kind of a niche industry with pretty small profit margins, so maybe the company can’t actually afford to pay more.
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