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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8033336" data-attributes="member: 14159">Or, people like to have at least one thing in their life where they aren't having modern day politics thrown in their face.I play D&amp;D to get away from real-world problems, not to have them constantly brought up.It's a fantasy world.&nbsp; Orcs are usually evil because they have strong tendencies towards evil because they were created whole-cloth by an evil god a few thousand years before, and live in a culture that venerates that evil god.&nbsp; Orcs aren't humans.&nbsp; The idea of trying to transpose modern-day 21st century American gender/racial/cultural politics on a fantasy world. . .frankly makes me not want to play D&amp;D, or at least not want to play it with people who seem to want to shoehorn in talk about modern social issues into every conversation.. . .and it doesn't feel like a strawman when compared to all the discussions on here where people are getting offended by a 35 year old sourcebook, or calling any D&amp;D setting that is in any way based on, a pastiche of, or inspired by any real-world culture problematic.&nbsp; It seems like the exact same thing. . .people taking a fun escapist hobby and sucking the fun out of it.I'm frustrated at trying to turn back to gaming as a hobby as an escapist retreat from the world during a period of extreme stress. . .only to find the same things I'm trying to escape from here.D&amp;D humanoids aren't analogues for real-world races.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 8033336, member: 14159"] Or, people like to have at least one thing in their life where they aren't having modern day politics thrown in their face. I play D&D to get away from real-world problems, not to have them constantly brought up. It's a fantasy world. Orcs are usually evil because they have strong tendencies towards evil because they were created whole-cloth by an evil god a few thousand years before, and live in a culture that venerates that evil god. Orcs aren't humans. The idea of trying to transpose modern-day 21st century American gender/racial/cultural politics on a fantasy world. . .frankly makes me not want to play D&D, or at least not want to play it with people who seem to want to shoehorn in talk about modern social issues into every conversation. . . .and it doesn't feel like a strawman when compared to all the discussions on here where people are getting offended by a 35 year old sourcebook, or calling any D&D setting that is in any way based on, a pastiche of, or inspired by any real-world culture problematic. It seems like the exact same thing. . .people taking a fun escapist hobby and sucking the fun out of it. I'm frustrated at trying to turn back to gaming as a hobby as an escapist retreat from the world during a period of extreme stress. . .only to find the same things I'm trying to escape from here. D&D humanoids aren't analogues for real-world races. [/QUOTE]

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