Ruin Explorer
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Nowadays it's very risky to be this level of racist, because you're going to get in a lot of hot water.Have times changed, or have they stayed the same?
But people still do come out with products which are pretty damn racist, and it happened quite a lot up even past 2010, though it's usually some random wildly racist element in an otherwise-sane setting.
Thankfully consistent opposition to this kind of stuff is making it rarer. But even with 5E there are serious mistakes from time to time. For example, with Orcs, the very negative description of them in Volo's unfortunately basically exactly matched how some ultra-racist pre-1960s textbooks described Black people. Was it conscious or intentional? Almost certainly not. Was the result of people growing up in racist culture and internalizing certain stuff unconsciously? Yeah quite likely. So it still happens a bit.