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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

Orcs, elves and culture wars: how diversity in D&D met a rightwing backlash

Jeremy Cobb, Liv Kennedy and Jasper William Cartwright of the D&D and diversity podcast 3 Black Halflings
Jeremy Cobb, Liv Kennedy and Jasper William Cartwright of the D&D and diversity podcast 3 Black Halflings. Photograph: Handout

“My first Dungeon Master was an anti-racist skinhead,” Jeremy Cobb says of his introduction to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.

For Cobb, a 32-year-old actor, one of the joys of D&D is that it unites nonconformists – “the nerds who didn’t want to play sports”, as he puts it.

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