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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9131372" data-attributes="member: 18">Whether that's the case for WotC is debatable.However, the issue with monkey-people specifically is that historically they're closely associated with anti-Black racism and tropes, across many cultures.Thus, if you ignore the giant red flags and choose to do monkey-people as a race/species in your game (which you should not, frankly - weirdly ape-people tend to be better-handled, which I put down largely to Gorilla Grodd), one thing you definitely need to 100% avoid is any kind of connection that could be made to Black people. Thus them have a background which involves slavery is, I think you can see, if you look at it from this perspective an extremely bad idea for that species specifically.They still have an ability called Enslave, even in the recent MotM, so yeah they do. WotC never uses the term slave or enslave in their description, instead talking about what they do, but the ability is still called Enslave and I very much doubt that was an accident or oversight.</blockquote>