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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8538089" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I'm going to disagree, because of this: Because it is up to the company to not produce objectionable or inappropriate elements. Or to expect me to not purchase their material, if it is objectionable or inappropriate. This isn't the same as having to rewrite material to suit your vision or interests. I always end up rewriting things because it doesn't match up to what I want--like half the reason my Curse of Strahd game is taking so long is I've had to rewrite half the material to (a) make it match up with my preferred vision of Ravenloft and (b) to make it actually creepy instead of just kinda there.Sure, the DM should be doing the work to make sure the game fits the needs of the players, especially if any of the players have any issues that need to be avoided in-game. But this, as I said, is not the same thing as the company not including objectionable or inappropriate elements in the first place.To go back to what I was talking about, the writers decided that certain races were there to be killed for XP (or so they could be looted so that the gold would give XP) without guilt or possible alignment change. Because of this, over the editions, other writers kept expanding on just how awful these races were--yes, mostly orcs and drow, but others as well. And some writers relied on stereotypes when dealing with fantasy races, because it's easy to write, or because it makes it easier for players to grok it. And as a result, we have always evil races that were/are baked in stereotypes. And now, it's up to WotC to correct that, because it's their property.</blockquote>

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