doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I have, and I don’t buy it.Have you seen the hadozee image directly compared to old minstrel images? It's so close you have to wonder if the artist intentionally copied it! Character pose and everything, it's not just a simian-person with a lute. I don't think the artist did this intentionally, but oof.
The artwork IS problematic on its own, but combined with the missteps in the lore, it's a perfect storm of a blunder. WotC is right to change the lore and remove the image.
But again, it doesn’t have to make sense to me. I don’t have to agree that the similarity is actually strong. It hurts people, so it goes.
Any smiling, dancing, musician, would have gotten the same reaction, because it is a simian character, IMO, and that is…a bummer. Simian people are cool.