Equality may or may not be a myth, but it's not exactly a harmful one (you're opinion may vary). If you want to make such inequality a part of your fantasy realm's campaign I'm not going to tell you you can't, nor would I be against playing in one (A campaign that promoted discrimination I'd be less enthused about, but I won't go into that).
Since the standard game is presumably going to be marketed towards children I'd like any standard core to be pretty culturally diverse and open with women just as easily soldiers as men, etc. Let it be all "Star Trek" so at least the core product doesn't encourage children to think any racial or gender discrimination is a good thing. In terms of prejudice, let dwarves hate elves if you want, but it doesn't need to be some heavy handed allegory about the evils of apartheid or something. If you want to tell that story later with a campaign setting though, by all means go for it.
Since the standard game is presumably going to be marketed towards children I'd like any standard core to be pretty culturally diverse and open with women just as easily soldiers as men, etc. Let it be all "Star Trek" so at least the core product doesn't encourage children to think any racial or gender discrimination is a good thing. In terms of prejudice, let dwarves hate elves if you want, but it doesn't need to be some heavy handed allegory about the evils of apartheid or something. If you want to tell that story later with a campaign setting though, by all means go for it.
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