Whizbang Dustyboots
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I suspect future PHBs will turn those dials down some, but still mention it. I can't imagine we'll be in a world where prejudice and discrimination will be unknown concepts by the time 6E comes out.Right. I think I totally get the story elements. It just feels odd after the past few years to have a race designed to suffer discrimination and micro-aggressions every new place they go. I guess I need to think over why how much of half-orcs being treated badly is bad just because their orc half was labeled as an evil race instead of having free will. It also has me reconsidering if the the interracial strife in Glen Cook's Tun Faire books wouldn't be a deal breaker for a setting (since they treat each other badly like you'd expect in the real world, but none of them are innately worse in a good-evil sense).
And with stat bonuses being free-floating in the future, most likely, one can have a strong character without that baggage if they want to play a character not dealing with such themes.