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Now somebody, to escape from the conversation, will say you that you are free not to buy D&D products if you don't like the new age of politically correct fantasy.

Honestly, nobody asking me to do anything, except to bear your attitude without loose my courtesy. You are right, there is time to leave the new way of telling stories to those who deserve it. Farewell, sir.

There is only one species: HEROES

i vote species

Biological Species is an accepted and standard definition related to fecundity, but if you look closer even this definition has problems. natura non facit saltus

Robert E Howard was notoriously a white man with a strongly repressed homosexuality. All the fantasy history is rich of examples of this kind of latent racism even from Tolkien. It's a pulp literature written by white men for white men. It is normal that D&D has some of this topos in itself. And...

And now, the Grey Elves in Barovia?

Different historical periods. Mongols in Europe were a big nasty problem, guys. I remember their incursions, women and children crudely abused, young man killed, split apart by their horses. I myself almost died by their hands. Racist is not good, but the Mongols were really nasty.

There are too many biological differences to call them Cultures. But the fact that Orcs and Humans and elves can breed collide with the definition of Species.

Unfortunately, Species, from the biological point of view, describe people that are fecund and create individuals that are indefinitely fecund. So for this definition, an Orc and a Human or a Human and an Elf are of the same Species. Otherwise Race means a fenotypical group without biological...

I wonder what solution could be the best, or the worse. I agree with your analysis but: 1. start to paint them white? LOL 2. retcon with the fact that there are also good dark elves communities? difficult without making material aimed at that 3. give a great and memorable example of their not...

What are you saying doesn't contradict in any part the theory in wich there was a struggle for resource between Neanderthal and Sapiens. But this is not the point. The point is that the ORC is the enemy, Neanderthal, Sapiens or from another tribe is not important. What is important is the...

And is very offensive toward Italian people because Mario and Luigi (clearly italians by the name) are two plumbers: a typical humble job... oh f..k, I have to retcon my message cause I'm just offending plumbers... :D

This kind of post is not so constructive. All you are saying has an answer in italian language that is "grazie al cazzo" and it sound like "thank to the d..k". I know it is not elegant, but means that you are saying something very obvious only to cut down the dialogue and hide the fact that you...

I don't want to negate the influence of subconscious in writing stories or creating worlds. If you want, you can see discrimination and racism in everything. We can analyze with tranquillity every written fiction and decide without problems to correct this and that if we sincerely find it...

Yes. Thank you for coming in my aid.

But if you create an human hero, nothing prevent you to do it black. And Orcs... I remember they were green/brown. And goblin in the MM are yellowish but I remember also green. Maybe I'm wrong but I remember only drow to be black and in that case their somatic traits are far from afroamerican...

Why remove -2INT from Orc race? Because it is not correct, in general terms, to describe a race as genetically less intelligent than other? In this case, it is not correct to describe a race as genetically different than others. It would be absurd. Want WoTC abandon the concept of race itself...

In this case I'm sorry but you need to put your monster manual to the garbage. Aside from jokes, I like very much the way the witcher solves the problem. The author telling us that it is impossible for the witcher to kill intelligent beings, despite their looking or their behaviour against...

Sad about that. Maybe I don't know how to express my ideas in English very well.