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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phantom_Miria" data-source="post: 9849494" data-attributes="member: 7053811">I don't think I'm following here.If the "Games Workshop went away from it" line is about their Pygmies then it wasn't the early '90s but the mid '80s, Warhammer Pygmies were shockingly racist even by the '80s standards because if you dare google them up you'll see they look like something that would have been considered heavily stereotyped even in the 1930s, and anyhow there's thankfully absolutely nothing in Dark Sun that ever looked close to that stuff.Dark Sun Halflings aren't a reference to any given real human culture at all, they're just a fantasy race who eats other intelligent races, and they aren't unique either. They just became something that was taken notice off because of how different Athasian Halflings were compared to the usually peaceful Halflings of more normal fantasy settings.Warhammer Pygmies were so bad that they lasted 4 years from 1984 to 1988, and the only reason they passed under the radar at all I think was because the English writers were far less sensitized to that stuff than the Americans, and Pygmies were a very minor subset of troops inside other Warhammer armies, and GW was tiny at the time. As soon as someone realized what that stuff looked like they were quickly shoved in the memory hole, and rightfully so.Athasian Halflings, or anything in Dark Sun at all, isn't even remotely comparable in my opinion.</blockquote>