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Lost a word there apparently. I meant to say "end of the third age". As in, Lord of the Rings being beginning of humanity ascending as...

I don't know that's what they feel they need. What I have seen stated is not that they need to have always-evil things to have...

More importantly though, it would be moot in our gaming context. Why? 1) That's the real world - we are speaking about fantasies. We...

I'm not sure I'd call humanity "ascendant" in the Third Age of Middle-Earth, primarily due to machinations of Sauron and his servants...

Even if we grant this, and there is ample reason to find it simplistic, it is a far cry from always evil species. Humans have free will...

To borrow a phrase… No, they weren’t. The 2014 PHB, page 49 states “a pact struck generations ago infused the essence of Asmodeus …...

It also dawns on me that other acceptable answers may include “Cow-otic Moo-tral” and “Cow-otic Beef-full.”

That isn’t what the article you linked says at all. It says genetics plays a role in a lot of human traits, and probably more of one...

Moo-tral Beef-full?

Tieflings have gone back to what they were before 4e, no default assumptions of being related to Asmodeus. 2024 PHB they've gone far...

I don't believe I opined on whether or not I liked humanocentric design or whether it is "desirable" - I merely called it out as a...

The much, much bigger prejudice is about religion. The Merchant of Venice isn't about ethnicity, it's about Judaism. It's the reason why...

I think that varies dramatically depending on the specific locations, history, politics and culture and those are seldom represented in...

Widespread racial prejudice is primarily an invention of the Renaissance or later, and it grew out of the extremely unfortunate...

There seems to have been no more malice between actually different species than between regional groups of "our" species. We have some...