TheSword
Legend
Common sense? Who cares if creatures utterly devoid from the real world like mindflayers or dragons are evil or not.Why stop at humanoids?
Common sense? Who cares if creatures utterly devoid from the real world like mindflayers or dragons are evil or not.Why stop at humanoids?
Last time I checked goblins are no more or less real than mindflayers.Common sense? Who cares if creatures utterly devoid from the real world like mindflayers or dragons are evil or not.
Well, RotFM has Chaotic Neutral gnomeflayers.Common sense? Who cares if creatures utterly devoid from the real world like mindflayers or dragons are evil or not.
If you change all humanoids (and again, why limit to humanoids?) to "any alignment", I think the game loses something for a lot of people. Alignment is a handy shortcut that gives you a general idea of how someone will react. If you have a default, you have a 10,000 ft view of how that creature is going to react which is good enough most of the time.totally can. Is anyone saying you can't play your game with inherent evil humanoids if you want?
so are Orcs, and Drows and Bugbears. And yet, here we are...Last time I checked goblins are no more or less real than mindflayers.
If you change all humanoids (and again, why limit to humanoids?)
to "any alignment", I think the game loses something for a lot of people....It puts a lot of unnecessary burden on many DMs.
This is a bit of a stretch and mostly is: you see racism,because you want to see racism.Because many of those humanoid races were based off of caricatures of real racist stereotypes in folklore. Mindflayers? Not so much.
In the US it is hard to escape the obvious, when a race of rabidly evil elves are described as having black skin. I realize that A) the drow are drawing on older legends and B) there is some thinking that the drow are so dark because the surface elves are so fair--but that opens an entirely other box of woes. It's easy enough to have evil be less-well-correlated with dark skin.This is a bit of a stretch and mostly is: you see racism,because you want to see racism.
What racist stereotype are Drow filling in?