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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8183099" data-attributes="member: 7006">That is exactly correct.  For us current players, we didn't need what was originally printed in the PHB, we didn't need the "permission" that Tasha's Cauldron gave us to change it, and we don't need any further documents to make this stuff however it should be.Which means only one thing.These changes are purely for FUTURE PLAYERS.  Players who will pick up D&D for the first time and look at this stuff.  And it is for them that WotC is trying to change the conversation.  They want future players to not see that if you wish to play an orc you are by default stupider than other characters (even if by spending Point Buy points you could make one that was smart).  Because while they have no idea what anyone might know about the politics regarding Tolkien and his reasons/descriptions of the orc race and whatever correlation/causation might be there for fantasy races vs real races the general public might have... they are just doing what they feel is morally the right thing to do, just in case.  They want the game to be inviting to everybody if they can.Which means that everybody who is saying "Naw!  It doesn't matter!  Leave it alone!" is just giving a potential bad look.  Which if (general) you are okay with, then more power to you... but you can't expect WotC to go along with it if they don't agree.</blockquote>