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<blockquote data-quote="Aldeon" data-source="post: 6225045" data-attributes="member: 6690450"><p>My regular group is three black guys, two black girls, and me (filipino mestizo). According to what I've been told, there isn't really a precedent that any of them felt that made them feel like outsiders in the hobby-- although one of the girls felt that being a woman was a barrier. More often they complain about racism in the comic books community.</p><p></p><p>In game, I have an inclination towards not painting a species as evil. However, that's cause I usually run games that are more grey than black and white. I like the portrayal of dark elves in 13th Age, for example. However, I've ran games where orcs are shown being evil and whatnot. I don't see a problem with this. I feel something that needs to be stressed a lot of the time that just because it happens in a group, it doesn't necessarily mean the GM agrees with it. Just because orcs are wholly evil in a campaign doesn't mean that there's some subconscious need to portray races as evil by nature. And there isn't any reason to battle that in some settings. If you hate codified evil races, take it out of your game. Even easier to do if you homebrew instead of run something like the Realms or Greyhawk or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldeon, post: 6225045, member: 6690450"] My regular group is three black guys, two black girls, and me (filipino mestizo). According to what I've been told, there isn't really a precedent that any of them felt that made them feel like outsiders in the hobby-- although one of the girls felt that being a woman was a barrier. More often they complain about racism in the comic books community. In game, I have an inclination towards not painting a species as evil. However, that's cause I usually run games that are more grey than black and white. I like the portrayal of dark elves in 13th Age, for example. However, I've ran games where orcs are shown being evil and whatnot. I don't see a problem with this. I feel something that needs to be stressed a lot of the time that just because it happens in a group, it doesn't necessarily mean the GM agrees with it. Just because orcs are wholly evil in a campaign doesn't mean that there's some subconscious need to portray races as evil by nature. And there isn't any reason to battle that in some settings. If you hate codified evil races, take it out of your game. Even easier to do if you homebrew instead of run something like the Realms or Greyhawk or something. [/QUOTE]
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