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With things as they are now, you gain a common language. If I describe a drow to my players, they know something about that being that relates to the mythology of the world. They may not know what an individual drow might do or think but they do know that there's a goddess that teaches that the...

But what do you gain by making them drow? Couldn't you get the same effect by just making them human? They would even be easier to run as humans because you wouldn't have to look up different stat blocks.

TLDR: the problem of racism in D&D has different aspects which will probably require different solutions. None of the following is a judgment for any side, it's only an observation of the state of public discourse. I think part of the problem is who are these solutions being addressed to? The...

Dragons have an interesting model that could be useful in creating another angle in understanding the problem with orcs. On reading this post, I wondered why dragons can't change their color. The answer, ofc, is that D&D is founded on nature over nurture and this notion is cemented in the...

Not to dog pile but that definition seems pretty anthropocentric. The qualities required to be considered a person are exactly the qualities that humans are evolved to possess. Imagine if instead of having some ape-like genetic ancestor, we had a tiger-like ancestor and we all preferred to be...

The more I read the criticisms against D&D, the more I'm becoming convinced that the game's lore can't really survive in this era. The weak point, imo, of the lore is the mythology of creator gods. I've leaned on this lore a lot to create adventures over the years but the fact that gods exist...

I've read through this thread and I still don't get what makes an orc an orc. The answer I see most often is that orcs are defined by their culture, which is kind of a non-answer as a DM would then have to ask what is the culture of orcs? Which is a pretty big question. The official solution...