Mind of tempest
(he/him)
well, this is going to be unpleasant for them, we going to get a product recall or something?
D&D General New WOTC racism allegations regarding Hadozee and Spelljammer
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DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Actually, has this stuff been around for a bit now? (I don't care for Spelljammer anyway so I haven't been following any of it).
Are people just starting to notice something that offends them?
Are people just starting to notice something that offends them?
Same instrument as the Halfling on page 26 of the PHB - but the Hadozee is relatively bigger. (The hat make me wonder more than the instrument...).
But that's why I'm curious what the artist used for inspiration and if they were told to make it a bard.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)
you would think they would have a cultural sensitivity department by now like just a bunch of people with degrees sitting in a room who reviews stuff to make sure it does not have any problem with it?
Remathilis
Legend
Sigh...
My proposal for 5.5. No lore. No art. Just rules and statblocks.
They can produce a thousand Radiant Citadels, but this is what they will be remembered for...
My proposal for 5.5. No lore. No art. Just rules and statblocks.
They can produce a thousand Radiant Citadels, but this is what they will be remembered for...
Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
How did they not have a Sensitivity Reader for this book?! They knew Spelljammer had some bad stuff in it before. They (wisely) left the Gromman and Aperusa in the past and didn't even mention them in these books (unless I missed something). One would think that if you know that a setting previously had some pretty racist content in it, they would make certain that they had a Sensitivity Reader working on this project to catch anything racist that snuck into the product that they might have missed.
This isn't a good look. It really isn't. They seemed like they were going in the right direction recently, with the changes to Ravenloft to get rid of the Caliban and fix the Vistani and the recent Radiant Citadel book being written by BIPOC. But this looks bad. Really bad. I'm worried about Dragonlance now that they've proven that racist BS like this can still get in their products.
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Gack! Where is that personality one from. I didn't see that in the spelljammer Adventurer's guide or Menagerie. :-/
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I dunno if they were told to make a bard or not, but in all honesty when I look at that picture I get the impression that their inspiration was the bard character from The Gamers: Dorkness Rising.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
According to the pinned comment on the Youtube video, it's from "an earlier book," which I think means it's from a UA playtest file?
Levistus's_Leviathan
5e Freelancer
Parmandur
Book-Friend
No, some of what's in the OP is pulling from an old war Wiki. 5E SJ softened the situation...but kept way too much.
Thommy H-H
Explorer
It's on the Forgotten Realms wiki, and the source is Stormwrack, a 3.5-era book from 2005. There's nothing at all like that in the recent Spelljammer release.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Maybe some Errata.
Simpletense
Explorer
Looks like the personality stuff is from the forgotten realms wiki and taken from 3rd Ed Stormwrack, not the new Spelljammer
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Niye that the really weird stuff in the second post is from a Wiki, not the new book. That's old lore, the Unhukan War comes up nowhere in this set.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Wow, still WotC era...yikes.
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