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<blockquote data-quote="Lwaxy" data-source="post: 6210034" data-attributes="member: 53286"><p>This discussion seems to be important as well, so here's the thread for it. Starting with a poll. </p><p></p><p>My own view? I view racism towards fantasy races as a bad thing <strong><span style="color: #0000cd">unless</span></strong> the history of the setting gives a reason (as in orcs = demonspawn etc). That doesn't mean I am against racist PCs - I remember playing a racist elf (against basically all non-Sun Elves) once, and dwarves with an issue with elves are always fun to play. However, the stereotype of a race always described as evil without any other reason than them being different and the setting needing humanoid monsters is a nono for me. I would also not allow clearly racist PCs to be any good alignment. </p><p></p><p>In the real world, I have had quite a variety of players, and I can't remember the last time I had an all German-speaking round (may happen soon though). My most diverse group was 11 people with ancestry from Japan to Native Indian (yes, in Germany) with the really odd one out being a Tibetan. I have never run into comments like "wow black people play?" or the like, either. The guy who taught me and my friends how to play was Native Indian US army <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> So it never occurred to me that the hobby was supposedly predominantly white until I got online a lot.</p><p></p><p>Oh ignore the typo... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> Didn't notice the cat killed 2 letters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lwaxy, post: 6210034, member: 53286"] This discussion seems to be important as well, so here's the thread for it. Starting with a poll. My own view? I view racism towards fantasy races as a bad thing [B][COLOR=#0000cd]unless[/COLOR][/B] the history of the setting gives a reason (as in orcs = demonspawn etc). That doesn't mean I am against racist PCs - I remember playing a racist elf (against basically all non-Sun Elves) once, and dwarves with an issue with elves are always fun to play. However, the stereotype of a race always described as evil without any other reason than them being different and the setting needing humanoid monsters is a nono for me. I would also not allow clearly racist PCs to be any good alignment. In the real world, I have had quite a variety of players, and I can't remember the last time I had an all German-speaking round (may happen soon though). My most diverse group was 11 people with ancestry from Japan to Native Indian (yes, in Germany) with the really odd one out being a Tibetan. I have never run into comments like "wow black people play?" or the like, either. The guy who taught me and my friends how to play was Native Indian US army :cool: So it never occurred to me that the hobby was supposedly predominantly white until I got online a lot. Oh ignore the typo... :mad: Didn't notice the cat killed 2 letters. [/QUOTE]
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