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<blockquote data-quote="kermit4karate" data-source="post: 9747345" data-attributes="member: 7053643">What a thoughtful response. Thank you!If it'd been up to me...I would have been reluctant to add much complexity. I would have renamed &quot;race&quot; to &quot;species,&quot; because species is simply a more accurate term, but would have left the racial ability score bonuses as they had been, because in point of (fictional) fact Goliaths are almost always larger and stronger than Goblins. It is what it is, even in a world of fantasy.Honestly, though, I don't believe there was a correct answer here. I think that D&amp;D was paying a cultural price for what had been perceived of as decades of insensitivity (which I don't believe were that but rather were signs of the times), and society wanted its pound of flesh.That said, the company flubbed their response a few times, which only served to fan the flames and incense people. Again, though, could they have handled things differently and appeased everyone? No, I really don't think so. For every &quot;correct&quot; answer someone could say they could have done, I don't believe it would have satisfied many people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kermit4karate, post: 9747345, member: 7053643"] What a thoughtful response. Thank you! If it'd been up to me...I would have been reluctant to add much complexity. I would have renamed "race" to "species," because species is simply a more accurate term, but would have left the racial ability score bonuses as they had been, because in point of (fictional) fact Goliaths are almost always larger and stronger than Goblins. It is what it is, even in a world of fantasy. Honestly, though, I don't believe there was a correct answer here. I think that D&D was paying a cultural price for what had been perceived of as decades of insensitivity (which I don't believe were that but rather were signs of the times), and society wanted its pound of flesh. That said, the company flubbed their response a few times, which only served to fan the flames and incense people. Again, though, could they have handled things differently and appeased everyone? No, I really don't think so. For every "correct" answer someone could say they could have done, I don't believe it would have satisfied many people. [/QUOTE]

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