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<blockquote data-quote="Dualazi" data-source="post: 6940076" data-attributes="member: 6855537"><p>First off, I would love to hear exactly which races are analogues for real world ethnicities, because I deeply suspect that any examples you might give will be quite the stretch. </p><p></p><p>Secondly, with all the races and creatures present in D&D, I think you would be hard pressed to make the argument that straight white men are over-represented as opposed to other categories, especially one as broad as ‘female’. Even if you were to do so, it <em>still</em> would not matter, because perfect parity in representation is a joke of a goal. What </p><p>matters is that in most published settings (FR definitely so) women are explicitly stated to be as competent as any man and have (and continue to hold) the highest offices in the land.</p><p></p><p>Third, you can 100% escape the implicit biases, choices, and interactions in a made up fantasy game. That’s the whole point! You can imagine cultures and histories untouched by our own assumptions and experiences. If you’re afraid of making your villain homosexual or your savage races dark-skinned out of some need to avoid even tenuous real-world implications, then in my opinion you’ve already lost from a creative standpoint.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It’s not inherently bad, but it also adds little of value. D&D should never be a ‘safe space’, at least by default, because the very concept is intellectual poison. And ‘challenging’ these issues sounds like a masturbatory fantasy of bringing down strawmen to pat yourself on the back for how progressive you are. That’s not intended as a personal attack, I just remain remarkably unconvinced that D&D is the proper venue for this.</p><p></p><p>Although it does remind me of a humorous play report I read about a group who found out gay marriage didn’t exist in the fantasy (not)Europe they were playing in, and got so sidetracked trying to overthrow the government to implement it that a lich completed his evil plan and overran everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dualazi, post: 6940076, member: 6855537"] First off, I would love to hear exactly which races are analogues for real world ethnicities, because I deeply suspect that any examples you might give will be quite the stretch. Secondly, with all the races and creatures present in D&D, I think you would be hard pressed to make the argument that straight white men are over-represented as opposed to other categories, especially one as broad as ‘female’. Even if you were to do so, it [I]still[/I] would not matter, because perfect parity in representation is a joke of a goal. What matters is that in most published settings (FR definitely so) women are explicitly stated to be as competent as any man and have (and continue to hold) the highest offices in the land. Third, you can 100% escape the implicit biases, choices, and interactions in a made up fantasy game. That’s the whole point! You can imagine cultures and histories untouched by our own assumptions and experiences. If you’re afraid of making your villain homosexual or your savage races dark-skinned out of some need to avoid even tenuous real-world implications, then in my opinion you’ve already lost from a creative standpoint. It’s not inherently bad, but it also adds little of value. D&D should never be a ‘safe space’, at least by default, because the very concept is intellectual poison. And ‘challenging’ these issues sounds like a masturbatory fantasy of bringing down strawmen to pat yourself on the back for how progressive you are. That’s not intended as a personal attack, I just remain remarkably unconvinced that D&D is the proper venue for this. Although it does remind me of a humorous play report I read about a group who found out gay marriage didn’t exist in the fantasy (not)Europe they were playing in, and got so sidetracked trying to overthrow the government to implement it that a lich completed his evil plan and overran everything. [/QUOTE]
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