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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8025559" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Well, since that steroetype is "women" I think that is a rather large enough population of the world that WoTC should consider their opinions.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure, one trope among many, but why publish it at all? Seriously, is there some "here are the tropes for DnD" book that I'm not aware of? </p><p></p><p>You seem to think that just making a big list and saying "here are all the tropes of human storytelling, from the innocent, the grand, the racist and the misgynistic, pick what you like" somehow makes things okay. But not only does that still not make the bad tropes okay, we've never once created a book like that for DnD, so why do it now? </p><p></p><p>If people are interested in the history, they will research the history, we don't need to publish the entire history in every new book.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Right, make them people. Make them more complex than just "all orcs in all worlds are X". That is the proposed solution, but people don't want us to take their orcs from some 60 year old magazine away from them. But we aren't, we are changing things going forwards.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes but for entirely different reasons. </p><p></p><p>The story of the Duergar is that they were dwarves who were tricked into mental slavery, but since they didn't worship Moradin on his holy day (because, you know, the slave masters who controlled their brains wouldn't let them) Moradin abandoned them as unfaithful and cast them out. And, they ended up having to save themselves, their new god being the hero who freed them from slavery</p><p></p><p>They are evil for hating and attacking the dwarves... which seems completely justified since the dwarves and Moradin essentially abadoned them to slavery and torment for centuries and are blaming the Duergar for what happened to them.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So yeah, I'm all for excising the Duergar entirely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8025559, member: 6801228"] Well, since that steroetype is "women" I think that is a rather large enough population of the world that WoTC should consider their opinions. Sure, one trope among many, but why publish it at all? Seriously, is there some "here are the tropes for DnD" book that I'm not aware of? You seem to think that just making a big list and saying "here are all the tropes of human storytelling, from the innocent, the grand, the racist and the misgynistic, pick what you like" somehow makes things okay. But not only does that still not make the bad tropes okay, we've never once created a book like that for DnD, so why do it now? If people are interested in the history, they will research the history, we don't need to publish the entire history in every new book. Right, make them people. Make them more complex than just "all orcs in all worlds are X". That is the proposed solution, but people don't want us to take their orcs from some 60 year old magazine away from them. But we aren't, we are changing things going forwards. Yes but for entirely different reasons. The story of the Duergar is that they were dwarves who were tricked into mental slavery, but since they didn't worship Moradin on his holy day (because, you know, the slave masters who controlled their brains wouldn't let them) Moradin abandoned them as unfaithful and cast them out. And, they ended up having to save themselves, their new god being the hero who freed them from slavery They are evil for hating and attacking the dwarves... which seems completely justified since the dwarves and Moradin essentially abadoned them to slavery and torment for centuries and are blaming the Duergar for what happened to them. So yeah, I'm all for excising the Duergar entirely. [/QUOTE]
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