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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8298330" data-attributes="member: 7025997">I'd argue that most preindustrial civilizations (ie any D&D civilization in most settings) had at least some degree of what we would consider prejudice, though they defined ingroup and outgroup differently--you had barbarians defined as 'people who didn't speak Greek', for instance; Romans talked about tribal people outside of the empire the same way, and in China again it was groups outside of the empire. (They categorized them by the cardinal directions.) A lot of history revolves around inter-ethnic conflicts, and often you have one group that sits on top of the other as a ruling class--look at the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, or Normans in England after 1066 (that's why our 'common' words sound like German and our 'fancy' words sound like French-look at 'cow' (Kuh) and 'beef' (boeuf) for instance). Ancestry's very often a big factor though.How much of that you want to put into your game is another story. A lot of your players may have had real-life traumatic experiences with some of this stuff.</blockquote>