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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8285694" data-attributes="member: 82524">Orcs aren't the biggest offender for D&D's tendency to value to color of a critter over the content of its character. Not even drow with their obvious Mark of Hamm deal compare to Dragons - a highly individualistic, hyper-sapient race of super-geniuses who nonetheless have  everything about their existence predestined by their color. They're portrayed as not so much different species as different cultures selected by hereditary skin color. Being red makes you a vain jerk with a god complex. Period. Being copper makes you an insufferable chatterbox. Even if a red somehow isn't evil, they're still the worst version of Booster Gold and coppers are incapable of being shy.Sure, there's at least a stab at xenofictioning them, which isn't done with humanoids, but it's one of the first things that I marked out as 'weird in an unfun way' about D&D.</blockquote>