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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8508519" data-attributes="member: 6855114">You got it wrong.Depicting a part of the mythos of a culture does not portrait members of that culture as evil, bad or downright racist. We are talking about a cultural mythos. It is as if in a game, you would be infering that because there are angels in the game, all christians are parangons of virtue. You are making a false association of ideas here.If you wanted to describe Arabians in a bad way, you would simply create a culture in your game where all of the members copying that culture would be ready to go boom. That kind of thing would not only raise my eyebrows, but my ire as nothing can be further from the truth.Nothing can and should prevent you to improve on your representation of the Arabic culture. But do not claim that D&amp;D is doing something that it isn't. Yes, a better representation would do no harm. But as such, the efreeti are not representative of the arabian culture, but a simple part of their mythos. Nothing else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8508519, member: 6855114"] You got it wrong. Depicting a part of the mythos of a culture does not portrait members of that culture as evil, bad or downright racist. We are talking about a cultural mythos. It is as if in a game, you would be infering that because there are angels in the game, all christians are parangons of virtue. You are making a false association of ideas here. If you wanted to describe Arabians in a bad way, you would simply create a culture in your game where all of the members copying that culture would be ready to go boom. That kind of thing would not only raise my eyebrows, but my ire as nothing can be further from the truth. Nothing can and should prevent you to improve on your representation of the Arabic culture. But do not claim that D&D is doing something that it isn't. Yes, a better representation would do no harm. But as such, the efreeti are not representative of the arabian culture, but a simple part of their mythos. Nothing else. [/QUOTE]

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