Diversity hiring is a great practice and a step in the right direction for the #TTRPG industry.

But things won't get substantially better unless it's accompanied by *diversity promoting*.

Would Ezmerelda in Curse of Strahd been written as being ashamed of her prosthetic if a couple of the writers or editors were disabled folks?

Would the Vistani be written in the problematic and racist way they are in they'd thought to hire a Romani consultant or had one on their team?

Perkins admitted that not one black writer or consultant worked on Tomb of Annihilation, which is set in a black-majority region. Why?

Would a woman have been so quick to dismiss allegations against ZS or, (WTH!), send him a list of the names of his accusers?!

And would *any* PoC have written the half-orcs in the PHB and the orc playable race in VGtM as a grab bag of all of the racist tropes whites have inflicted on PoC since at least the colonial era?

WotC and other TTRPG companies need to hire and promote fewer people like me. We need more diversity at *every* level of these organizations.