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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nijineko" data-source="post: 6277744" data-attributes="member: 52240">i think the racist feel comes from the half-baked rules and fluff that they put in with it. you aren't allowed to take your own race, cause that's EVIL-or at least that's the justification given. and players are generally assumed to not be evil. i think it was mostly developed the way it was as a block/ban to prevent players from using it against BBEGs who somehow mostly wind up being their own race, but allow some bonuses against other kinds of BBEGs. i guess there is also some sort of assumption that a bane weapon hates the race it is designed to be effective against, or at least the creator of such a weapon would have to hate said race. i think the intelligent items rules mention something to that effect. in the end, this gets into the cosmology behind it. it made sense to gygax and/or arneson, and nobody's bothered to think it out or question it who actually worked for tsr/wotc/hasbro... so we have it now. if you want a fix, then you need to understand why or why not your cosmology supports such a thing, and how such a thing would have to be created and why. go from there.</blockquote>