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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7822309" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Totally incompatible with my view of DnD, and yet! We both play the same game! Wild! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" title="Face with tears of joy    :joy:" data-shortname=":joy:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Seriously though this is one of the best things about dnd. And we could probably each play in the other’s campaign for at least a one shot without any trouble, in spite of how it often seems in internet arguments! But this also speaks to what I think may be a hidden but major point of contention in the community. For those of us who don’t use the stereotypes, humans have always known about tieflings and Gnolls and Dragonborn and whatever else. Your neighbor acting out of character is scarier than a Gnoll with a tinker’s wagon rolling into town, because doppelgängers are a real thing, but the Gnoll is, at worst, gonna maybe steal some stuff? Because stereotypes! Like, the “half devil” isn’t that scary if you know that they look like that because they’re...basically Italians in an alt timeline where Rome made deals with devils and now Italians bear that mark in their features, but also the merchant princes to the south are mostly Italian, and you’ve seen Italian mercenaries in the King’s Army back in the war, etc. Lots of Britons aren’t gonna trust an Italian traveler, but only in the sense of “hold on to your purse and don’t make any deals or promises in his presence” or whatever. On the other hand, if you are using the “old school dnd standard” dnd world history, the non human races are super rare, and often their history is mostly attacking human villages or whatever, so it’s a very different take. Which is why I wonder about people’s use of these concepts, and how it affects their games.</blockquote>

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