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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3938379" data-attributes="member: 15538">The same thing as modeling a fictional character, very loosely, on actual cultural norms. There is a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it. Given it's a fantasy game that often harks back to pre-modern times, D&amp;D can get a pass on a lot of things, but there is a line that should be trod carefully. Making halflings into pint-size gypsies, in wagons, stealing stuff, using magic to steal others' misfortune, with a secret force of murderous enforcers who attack their enemies, and secretly worshipping a shadow cult of their ostensibly LG deity, and then using homages to Renaissance art of Romani bilking gorgios as their illustration, is way, way past that line.Imagine, if you will, that Races of Stone gave dwarves yamulkas, the beards, made them the world's premier moneylenders, assigned to them a fall from grace caused by participating in the murder of Pelor's avatar, and had them ruled by a secret order of mystics that sacrificed children in evil rituals. That ___ does not fly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 3938379, member: 15538"] The same thing as modeling a fictional character, very loosely, on actual cultural norms. There is a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it. Given it's a fantasy game that often harks back to pre-modern times, D&D can get a pass on a lot of things, but there is a line that should be trod carefully. Making halflings into pint-size gypsies, in wagons, stealing stuff, using magic to steal others' misfortune, with a secret force of murderous enforcers who attack their enemies, and secretly worshipping a shadow cult of their ostensibly LG deity, and then using homages to Renaissance art of Romani bilking gorgios as their illustration, is way, way past that line. Imagine, if you will, that Races of Stone gave dwarves yamulkas, the beards, made them the world's premier moneylenders, assigned to them a fall from grace caused by participating in the murder of Pelor's avatar, and had them ruled by a secret order of mystics that sacrificed children in evil rituals. That ___ does not fly. [/QUOTE]

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