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This is way to regimented and metagamey. The DM should not have to tell their players they need to kill 50 more orcs before you can build an extension on their house.

It's kind of hard for LaNasa to spin this one as a win. I won, the judge won't grant my opponents the preliminary injunction they wanted. (Because I already agreed to everything WotC asked for.) Surrendering before a fight starts is not winning.

Given his amazing record of consistently make the worst choice possible at every opportunity, it would not surprise me if he decides the best time to actually start releasing products is during a major lawsuit, just after promising the judge he won't. It actually kind of seems on brand for...

I'm sorry. That came across a lot meaner than i intended. I can get snarky, sloppy, and hyperbolic when discussing heated topics. I never meant to call anyone racist just because they like a certain type of game. Just because I called certain games or troupes racist, I never meant that...

Sorry I was trying to agree with you. I need to stop trying to be so clever and snarky when discussing serious issues. It is to easy for tone to be misinterpreted when writing. You can still tell all the same type of stories and explore the same troupes without the baggage of colonial era...

When you get down to it, when you have a authoritarian, totalitarian country ruled by an incredibility powerful immortal god-king do you really need slavery?

For decades over multiple editions numerous "races" allowed as player characters that were explicitly expected to face hated, mistrust, and bigotry because of their "race" and innate negative traits that automatically applied to all members of a "race" (except PCs). I don't know how much more...

I haven't had a change yet to see the new Black Panther yet, but the lack of racism in the first movie was a breath of fresh air. It was nice just to have a fantasy story about black people without having to wallow around examining racism. It really gets exhausting sometimes.

I understand the impulse to want a nice clean, compartmentalized world. Where everything fits neatly into the compartments of good guy or bad guy. A world where you never need to make any difficult moral decisions. A world where you are free to loot and murder your way across the world without...

I think overall 5E did a pretty good job, and I believe the designers actually care about not being racist and are trying, but nobody is perfect. There have been a few issues, but they are attempting to correct them when pointed out. The new policy on cultural consultants in a really good...

A wandering forum discussion is a horrible place to discuss complicated topics, writing can be sloppy and confusing. I think you may be reading to much into what people are saying here. I know that's not what I was trying to say, and I don't think that is what anyone else has been saying. If...

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You can call it what every demeaning term you want. I want a game I can give to my 13 year old nephew to play with his friends without havening to worry the books are full of racist crap. The game should be the equivalent of a P-13 movie. I thinks that is what the designers want as well. If...

Discussing racism in the game is an important issue that needs to be discussed, and I am not going to derail this thread with what-aboutism. If you really want to talk about violence in D&D start a new thread. I will say though that racism is not the same as violence. There are plenty of...

The thing you are missing is that you don't need to make All of a species a certain way. Especially if you say all of a species is a certain way except for the PCs.

Exploring the theme of "What if the the world was full of racists?", isn't exactly a strange, magical, fantasy realm, it's the real world. It's a world where lots of people spend the vast majority of their time struggling with the ramifications of it. D&D is a family friendly game. People...

The trope of a "Race" being cursed by god to be evil doesn't always equate to racism, but a lot of the time it DOES! Players should never even be put in the spot where they have to question if this is racist of not. People are dealing with a lot of crap in the world right now, they shouldn't...

It's less being "humanoid", and more being a PC.

The problem is the "Cursed by God to be Evil" is how lots of racists in history have described minority groups in real life, and it is used as justification for their murder, genocide, and enslavement. The thing is, D&D, or any other game for that matter, doesn't deserve the benefit of the...

I am not avoiding the question. I said evil monsters are ok. You CAN have gods or magic make evil species. (As I said in my previous post Fiends and Undead are EVIL, and I think they are fine. What I have a problem with is claiming that an entire species is EVIL, and is ok to kill on sight...