Paul Farquhar
Legend
That could easiliy be interpreted as promoting racism. WotC have to be very careful.
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That could easiliy be interpreted as promoting racism. WotC have to be very careful.
Zardnaar
Legend
I own it yes. I haven't really followed 2E GH a bit if 3E Paizo stuff.
The setting was humanocentric, Gary was very clear on that.
Whether you agree with that or not is up to you. I don't really regard what came latter as that relevent. What those authors did is on them/TSR.
Azzy
ᚳᚣᚾᛖᚹᚢᛚᚠ (He/Him)
You don't seem to know what the Great Kingdom is. You're just making superficial statements.
Zardnaar
Legend
Fantasy races that are descended from fiends?
Lol people will get upset over anything. Im not claim my Tiefling can't exist but they're better of suited to NPCs on GH, probably Ravenloft as well but I don't care to much about RL.
Same thing with Dragonborn they're completely fantastical.
Look at Ravnica for example that didn't include everyone race in it. Only had a few really plus some Ravnica ones.
Zardnaar
Legend
It's the area in the Eastern part of GH.
jgsugden
Legend
I find a lot of these discussions lack imagination. Hollywood is constantly finding aged sexist stories and retelling them as feminist legends. The settings written in the 1970s and 1980s are aged and show a set of predominant cultural norms that are now considered dated. That creates a lot of opportunity for you to tell avariety of stories.
Zardnaar
Legend
1.We're not talking about Hollywood.
2. No one's disputing you can't have female knights etc on GH.
3. We were talking about the more monstrous races added to the game later that have no relationship to real cultures.
Doc_Klueless
Doors and Corners
Oh, my gosh. It's so much more than that. And the whole orc/hobgoblin mercenary thing is tied into the Great Kingdom and its splintered off former colonies. It's a great Sorta Bad Guy Kingdom.
Zardnaar
Legend
Doesn't say much of that in the boxed set. Humanoids. Some. I assume they're not fine upstanding citizens.
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
We are talking about fantasy races. It isn't like to find anti-Spanish tropes in Castilla (7th Sea) or anticlerical elements in the last Robin Hood movie.
Those races were created to be antagonists, the enemies. Other thing is when later somebody would rather enemies with a piece of potential anti-villain. Other players would rather to play characters with cover of bad guys but with a hero heart.
The PC adventurer from a evil race is the exception, and you shouldn't find a evil-race humanoid in a town of honest people, but in the underground streets. Or maybe some demihuman populations are allowed to live among humanoids because they are now followers of a no-evil god (and feudal lords don't mind too much if they are taxpayers and don't cause troubles), or are under protection of a no-evil dragon or giant.
No-good races amon the human populations are possible in the same way when after the fall of the Roman empire the barbarian tribes travelled across all Europe and even to the north of Africa.
Those races were created to be antagonists, the enemies. Other thing is when later somebody would rather enemies with a piece of potential anti-villain. Other players would rather to play characters with cover of bad guys but with a hero heart.
The PC adventurer from a evil race is the exception, and you shouldn't find a evil-race humanoid in a town of honest people, but in the underground streets. Or maybe some demihuman populations are allowed to live among humanoids because they are now followers of a no-evil god (and feudal lords don't mind too much if they are taxpayers and don't cause troubles), or are under protection of a no-evil dragon or giant.
No-good races amon the human populations are possible in the same way when after the fall of the Roman empire the barbarian tribes travelled across all Europe and even to the north of Africa.
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