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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anon Adderlan" data-source="post: 9345042" data-attributes="member: 53053">Seems like a pure nostalgia play, as most players can't tell the difference between the various high fantasy medieval settings anyway.Well don't look at me, I was throwing it in the trash before it was cool, for which I was called a bigot because apparently that made me racist and homophobic.They love the idea of history. What they really love is canon and nostalgia.Hate to break it to you, but they've already moved on to the '90.No, it was appealing to those groups for exactly the same reasons as everyone else. It's the story of an abused orphan who enters a magical world full of familiar things and paternal/maternal figures where they discover they're the chosen one. It's as derivative as it gets.But not necessarily something familiar.Which is why it's such a dumb idea to move away from #ForgottenRealms now that the movie is out and BG3 is a breakaway hit which will be producing content both fan and official for years to come.Or maybe that's exactly why.There's a fine line between having enough content to inspire ideas yet leaving enough room for that to be possible, and I'm not sure #WotC can walk that line.No, fantasy ethnic groups are as often analogies and allegories to big ideas and concepts, and the idea that they must directly correlate to actual ethnic groups is easily one of the most intellectually toxic ideas contaminating this hobby.You mean the book about an ethnostate where membership determines rulership and criminals are brainwashed into not committing crimes?Like any other utopian idea, there's no such thing as an unproblematic representation.You mean the group based on fascists and Nazis? The group literally represented by pigs?</blockquote>

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