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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voranzovin" data-source="post: 8506099" data-attributes="member: 7020495">It's partly a question of character design:[ATTACH=full]149614[/ATTACH]This guy just screams "Jewish banker" to me, in a way that the description in the books does not necessarily evoke. It is not any one specific trait, which might well be unrelated or just generally come from goblinesque depictions. It's an emergent property of multiple traits. Just as in the case of the Ferangi, I don't think that this means that the character designers were deliberately aiming to create a Jewish caricature, and I'm not hugely offended by it. But it's impossible for me not to see it.The need for multiple traits is important. I do not, for instance, regard the use of the term phylactery as having any Jewish connotations in Dnd, because Liches don't do anything that otherwise resembles Jews, or caricatures of Jews.I guess I would say that it is partially subjective. There are objectively verifiable elements here--that the caricatures in question exist, and that some aspects of Harry Potter goblins, for instance, resemble those caricatures. There is room for debate on whether that's sufficient to make the goblins themselves a Jewish caricature, and if it does, what that means (my use of the term "unavoidable" was a perhaps ill-advised rhetorical flourish).</blockquote>