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I agree with this. When I was a kid, the aesthetic of the action movie turned me in my fantasy life into what was essentially a walking genocide. By the time I was 15, however, I was a pacifist, a raging feminist and a vegetarian. Exposing children to context and critical thinking skills are far...

I wouldn't say that it's easy for me. I'm just starting, nothing is easy for me right now. It has more to do with the fact that at the largest scale the world is dominated by forces like climate and plate tectonics. Things that I have a pretty good grasp on the basics of, and that can be...

Well, I am more or less just following the World Builder's Guidebook and I have this odd compulsion to at least have a vague idea of how the world looks before I can start focusing on on progressively smaller areas with increasing levels of detail. My natural tendency is also to come up with...

I'm in more or less the same boat myself. I've never DM'd before, but some friends of mine who have never played before want me to run a game and I've been kicking around ideas for a world for months. Tonight I was finally going to start drawing up a world map, and I was thinking that it might...

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know about that one. And I guess that's what this is all about, racism and ethnic slurs seem to be a ubiquitous part of culture. Especially when a culture is what we would consider less "enlightened". So I can't really imagine a world based on medeival values...

Thanks for all of quick replies. It really helped me start thinking in the right direction. Although more is always appreciated... :D

I'm trying to design a dark, gritty kind of world where even the "civilized" races don't get along very well, and I was thinking that a few good disparaging slang words for the races would add a lot of flavor to the world and character interaction. Anyone have any good pejorative words or...