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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8333386" data-attributes="member: 7030755">Yes.  And that social relationships within the implied or default dnd setting mimic colonialism, and I would say specifically nineteenth century settler colonialism.  That is, these racial descriptions in dnd, as a set of cultural documents, don't make sense without the context of Euro-American imperialism.The question of what gets inadvertently reproduced even among people mindful of those tropes is an interesting one.  I'm assuming most of us run games in English, and many of us playing where we reside, which is to say, on stolen land.  Which is to say, the development of this particular language of talking about otherness is fairly recent, and permeates our contemporary existence.</blockquote>