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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8572885" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Gypsy was a rogue-wizard class in Ravenloft AD&D. Here we should ask an Asian, but once I read the long nose of the tengu (avian humanoid from Japanese folklore) was symbol of their hubris. (In my game the tengu wear a long-nose mask as symbol they don't want lower classes to be too near of their faces, something like the crow-peak masks used by the plague doctors).Anytime people can't see the potential link between pejorative tropes because they lack those predjudices. Any example to explain it? In a fiction work there is a Spanish who is a "don Juan" ( = womanizer), a very known trope in the Spanish culture, but usually an ordinary Spanish wouldn't be offended by this, but if all male Spanish characters followed the same stereotype. Wouldn't be enough to add tokens, characters from other communities with enough positive traits? There are good and bad people among all the groups. I don't complain in a fantasy work a character wears a morrion, but in the fiction all the morrion-wearer characters are usually potential enemies or the bad guys. And sometimes the reasons of the censure are ridiculous, for example Winnie the pooh and Pepa Pig in China.</blockquote>