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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6349632" data-attributes="member: 37579">I'm a big Ravenloft fan and looking forward to reading (or writing) some support for that setting, including Vistani, and the PC variant half-Vistani.However, I'd rather get nothing than what we got for 4e, where they made full blooded Vistani a PC race and made them available to all races. That felt a little like releasing PC options for the a Dreaming a Dark over the kalashtar, or drow in place of wood elves.Vistani were always walking tools of the DM, mysterious and unknowable. Making them PCs went against that purpose. Racism is a potential issue with the Vistani, as they are giant walking stereotypes. However, it' shard to avoid tapping stereotypes when writing stories in certain genres. Gypsies are inexorably tied to Gothic fiction, the Victorian world, and related adaptations. Even the latest Sherlock Holmes movie relied on gypsy stereotypes (in a far less flattering way than the Vistani). It's a little like trying to tell a Western without touching on Native American tropes. It's archetypal.</blockquote>