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Do you think that the aim of what I'm writing is to "propagate negative stereotypes"? Wow!

Harry Potters goblins... There is a convergence of two common stereotypes of a rw group toward one fictional race. Your accusation is a little bit more strong than in Kender issue, and it worth some further invetigation... Let me see: China is not capitalist and is ideologically against western...

I'm absolutely overwhelmed by your wit :p

You are shifting the topic. But ok, trying to respond to your question: absolutely yes: until the negative trait is the only thing in common between fictional and rw people no legitim identification can be performed. If you do identify kender with romani you are assuming bad faith of the writer...

Logic have rules. Sorry. Jump to Romani from Kender is wrong. It is not an opinion, is a fact. I'm not interested in arguing with you about this point as I'm not interested in demonstrate that the Earth is a sphere. Really sorry but I have better things to do.

The page you link is a good example of identification between REAL and FICTIONAL. The fact that Gipsies are identified with thieves could be considered a REAL ISSUE. Viceversa the fact that Gipsy Bard have a particular trait in common with Kender is not sufficient to say that Kender are...

Agree with you. When in doubt, cut down. You have to sell to the max and this strategy is ok. But it is not free of backlashes. You can be more or less sensitive to the issue but this phenomenon is by matter of fact a self inflicted limitation of freedom of expression. It is irrelevant if you...

Maybe you miss that we are talking of the association of Kender with Romani. Not the association of Romani with Thievery. Who jumps from Kender to Romani do a false logic assumption. All Romani are thieves, Kender are all thieves, Kender are Romani? NO All Drow are black, all drow are evil...

Now do the same for all the message you wrote since the last 5 years. (I'm joking... just in case...) :) I think you avoid the problem I've posed to your attention, but don't want to force your answer. I'm simply sorry for that. This is not the first time this issues emerges in this forum...

Aggressive. One thing you miss: I don't want to be the arbiter. I'm telling you that the offended can't be the arbiter. If you believe something is offensive you can denounce and let a judge decide. The present situation is that to avoid POTENTIAL offenses, you cannot express your freedom of...

The problem is that and I find that argument convincing The world is full of people like you that find a simple similarity between a trope and a stereotype sufficient to be offended. Your argument is not convincing. But what happens here? Stay close because here's the real problem: Since is...

My argument rest on the fact that going fantasy from real is easy. Instead, going real from fantasy must be first contextualized and then proven to be offensive. The only point of connection between Romani and Kender is the klepto-think. For Romani (real people) is a stereotype. For Kender...

What makes me wonder is that yes, this stereotypes are present, but are translated to races in a fictional world. While starting from the Real world and going to a fictional world is possible and quite simple, it is not possible to take the trip in the opposite direction without expending energy...

Can you all elaborate about this Feywild thing? Which are the origins of this pervasive introduction of Feywild concept?

So if I say that your messages sounds like something awful to me, then you'll consider to remove it? Where is the threshold and who are eligible to set it?

40 years of playing and never ever think about kender as romani people. Same old problem: everything you say could be misinterpreted. Avoid misinterpretation must be limited by common sense. If not, the solution leads to intellectual paralysis.

To increase your knowledge of pulp fantasy literature. Joke aside, Dragonlance is a wonderful setting built around a specific narration, so it can be a little railroading as per Middle Earth. Is very schematic and full of dicotomies if you like the genre. A great setting to build epic good vs...

Satirical message.

Now available and already purchased. It seems 8/10 as Rashemen was.

Still unable to find it on DMSGUILD... news?