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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 8031029" data-attributes="member: 6802951">The DM introducing NPCs that don't have the same alignment as that listed in their statblock has always been a thing. That is not the same as "all monsters have no alignment".It might have just been a really unfortunate misstatement when what you actually meant to complain about was just the default alignment simply being less default and WotC reiterating that all monsters don't have fixed alignments. However what we have to judge you and your position on is what you actually said."Saying orcs are evil is racist" is not the same as "telling me I'm a racist because I don't have an issue with evil monsters. "In fact I don't think that anyone has been telling you that you're a racist because you don't have an issue with evil monsters.I'm pretty sure that no one has an issue with evil monsters. The main issue seems to be having an entire race of independently-thinking beings being evil, combined with some really unfortunate phrases and tropes used in their description that mirror historical racist rhetoric (and some still used by racists today.)You can allow exceptions to MM alignment and remove the direct parallels to racist/colonialist language without eroding anything too fundamental to D&D.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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