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Oh boy. You think this description isn't racist? Whatever minority group is associating with orcs just got dehumanised (pig-faced) and compared to vermin. You realise both were used by racists to describe other minorities as lesser people, right? Even if not word for word, this verbiage is right...

You can't predict which monster someone attempts to identify with so your option is to remove negative connotations from every single monster manual entry in case someone finds it offensive. How exactly do you imagine writing up demons and devils without negative connotations when at their core...

His issue was that the males were monstrous.

Someone in another thread was complaining that it's sexist for female monsters to have sexy female features while male monsters on the same page were depicted as monstrous (only such groupings i could find was with demons where you have a marilith/succubus and other demons and erynies with devils).

It doesn't stop there though. People get offended over how demons and devils look even though these creatures are specifically made to represent vices and sins, some choose to identify with these portrayals and brand them as hateful agendas. The only way out is to remove anything even vaguely...

Which pretty much proves my point - something that wasn't problematic before is now problematic because it gained popularity. The only way to prevent this is to depict monsters in ways that keep them from becoming popular but I'm at a loss as to how that can be done because tastes differ 🤷‍♂️

Neither do kobolds. They started off as doglike in appearance then moved to their modern lizard/dragonlike appearance. The way a race looks seems to play no role at all. Someone will associate with it despite all intentions and then act upset over its portrayal.

There's some cognitive dissonance at work here. Race a is portrayed as monstrous so players have no qualms about exercising their heroism by killing its members. Someone then decides - hey wouldn't it be cool to play a member of the race but I'll be an outcast going against the trope. This then...

The overall consensus is that OA is a pastiche of East Asian cultures. The takes on what that means vary from outrage to a shrug. The best way forward would be to create new Asian/Mezoamerican/Arabic-Persian inspired settings (or rewrite Kara Tur, Maztica and Zakhara) that account for the...

https://gnomestew.com/what-games-with-asian-settings-get-wrong-and-why-theyre-important-anyway/ An interesting take on OA that echoes the issue of it being a mish mash of stereotypes but doesn't see as much of a problem in them. Coming from a Chinese (born though seemingly not raised) person no...

I mean, you don't have to go digging that deep. Calimshan rides on the same themes zakhara does and that is seen as problematic. Chult has already been identified as such seeing the errata entries (although frankly I don't get what is wrong with the term exotic - i have nothing but positive...

It was always going to be incredibly successful - gloomhaven stayed in top 10 hotness list pretty much since it first landed. The amount of hype that generated is incredible.

They do still flood game store shelves though. My FLGS has scores of RPG books that don't ever seem to move off the shelves. The other FLGS puts ttRPG books on sale on a regular basis just to shift them. It may not appear as prevalent, but in my perception the bubble is very much growing and...

Let's just say I'm not a fan of everything jumping on the 5e bandwagon. We had that bubble burst in the early to mid naughties with everybody and their cat switching to d20. Systems are best when they stand on their feet IMO. At some point the market will become over saturated again, with the...

Nah, they decided to run a 5e adaptation of the Numenera setting to jump in on the popularity of D&D since Cypher wasn't getting as much traction in the community.

The offer is open to everyone. Clegg either checked the guidelines and blatantly ignored them or he did not check the guidelines at all - in either case, he has himself to blame. You are defending someone who did not follow the rules and then threw a childish tantrum over being punished for not...

I literally pulled the quote from dmsguild format and content questions page. 🙄

No. It would be double standard if complete hag was allowed to exist without said warning, or if Clegg's product was still censored despite having a warning like that. Neither point is the case. "other obscene material without the express written permission of Wizards of the Coast in a...

He wasn't given the option but he could have asked about it. Complete Hag comes with such a disclaimer on the product page.

I am all for inclusion, the way I see it though - no particular human race is represented as evil or somehow worse. Some people choose to find representation in areas where none is intended. If you really want an Elf race that represents your ethnicity, make one or rewrite an existing one so...