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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8492818" data-attributes="member: 6915329">In this sort of case, it would be important for the writer to emphasize why they decided to have not!Croatian dogfolk. For instance, the writer could play up those virtues of loyalty, determination, and cooperation, and the artist could illustrate them as looking alert, friendly, protective, fierce, etc. This would push a positive view and narrative. It wouldn't stop people from saying that dogs are a bad choice for whatever reason, but those reasons wouldn't be supported by the book. Then you have the Gaz10 way, where the dogfolk would be actively written as dirty, mangey, poop-eaters who lick their own genitals, and the art would depict them as drooling, flea-ridden messes. In that case, the negative view and narrative would be supported by the book.  Of course, you'd also have to do this with the culture half of the people and de-emphasize or not include nasty stereotypes about actual Croatians in the write-up--or at least specify that they are stereotypes and not the truth.Now, it would likely be harder to do this with orcs or some other previously always-evil race because of the decades of baggage associated with orcs. It might be less hard to do it with elves or a previously always-good race, because I think most people are more willing to accept a good people turned evil than vice versa.</blockquote>