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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8528986" data-attributes="member: 7032025">Yes, they are. I do believe that in a lot of countries, the motto "innocent until proven guilty", so you will have to prove that the words used in Tomb of Annihilation were used maliciously, and I'm pretty sure that you will have a very hard time doing that. Just because, at one time, Africa was described by some as a savage land, does it mean that all uses of the word "savage" has to be suppressed ? Many other lands have been described as "savage". Many people have been considered as "primitive", and all our ancestors were, at one point or another, and they all lived in tribes. So sue me, I'm not affected by prejudices born only by one country, and I don't have to be bound by prejudices born out of there and forcefully exported to the rest of the world.Tribes are a perfectly normal way of social organisation, both historically and extremely useful in terms of TTPG. Are we supposed to stop using that word because it's polluted by one country specific use of it ?And if you really want to fight against people using good words in a bad fashion, then, as [USER=177]@Umbran[/USER] said, address the root cause, which is certainly not the words themselves, but their sometimes use in bad context.If I want to describe a land, any land by the way, whether a jungle or mountains of another plane as "exotic" (which, by the way, often has a very positive connotation (e.g. Merriam-Webster "introduced from another country : not native to the place where found" / "strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual"), I will do so, since it's an excellent word to describe fantasy locations compared from the point of view of adventurers.All these words are extremely good words to describe situations in Fantasy RPGs, and they don't have equivalents. For example, in ToA, the errata either erased some words or replaced them with words that just don't mean the same thing, in particular replacing "tribes" by "homes".</blockquote>

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