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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scylis" data-source="post: 5274808" data-attributes="member: 93363">Do you have those repugnant, imbecilic half-breed half-orcs, which are obviously shots against the mingling of a better race with barbaric, inferior stock?How about tieflings, which might easily be seen, with their red skin and infernal heritage, to be thinly veiled stereotypes of "non-European", non-Christians, who were typically cast as "devil worshipers" who would "consort with foul demons" instead of living "enlightened" Christian lives?Halflings went from being lower class British folk (hobbits) to being untrustworthy, thieving gypsy-folk. Who else really has the "wanderlust" but dirty gypsies?Gnomes are clearly a more fey-themed dwarf, so do they get the axe, too?OH, don't get me started on warforged! Why, they're obviously a lesser race. Do they actually have souls? And they were quite literally made for unquestioning servitude. I bet that if they were mostly wood and not metal, they'd be of a positively darker hue that a fine white oak. So many times it's found that warforged, when left to their own devices, simply have no idea what to do with themselves. It would be a much more proper arrangement to simply keep them in servitude, wouldn't you think?Minotaurs? Unnatural union of man and beast! Why, they used to be monsters, only!Goliaths? Only uncivilized barbarians come from the mountain-folk!Wilden? Tis devious fey magics that makes nature rise up against the people which rule over it!Shardminds? Ok, you got me on that one. No clue there.Changelings? Have you even read any of the folklore to the things named "changelings"? Hideous, murderous, evil things left in place of children stolen in the night!I can go on and on about pretty much any of the races in 4E, save honest humans, devas, and maybe dragonborn. So, really, why bother? The races these days are much more and better than the myths, legends, and stereotypes that spawned them and to hold those old myths, legends, and stereotypes against them when that is far removed from they have become, in the case of the Dwarves - strong, proud and noble (and often about the richest people around), is... well, it's a little nutty.TL;DNR: Chill pill, dude. Not being around in a custom setting is one thing, but never around, ever? A bit over the top.</blockquote>

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