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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8187412" data-attributes="member: 6802378">* When kobolds and gnomes are going to bury the hatchet and smoke the peace pipe (= the end of the racial animosity)?* Some racial traits becomes useless if the player chooses certain class for that race. For example most of elf wizards don't use bows, or a dwarf roguedoesn't wear medium amor. But this may be easily fixed if other options are avaible, being replaced with other trait.* Most of us here agree WotC really is showing good will about being politically correct, but somebody could use fictional races or fantasy as offensive allegory of real groups. Let's imagine a story where the "evil empire" are the mechanatrix, the planetouched race from Mechanus (3rd Ed Fiend Folio). Then a Frech player complains because this faction is an acid satire of Napoleon's troops, and it is true, because the author is a Spanish with his own point of view about the History. I have said Napoleon's army as an inofensive example, but it could have been Xerxes and the Persian invaders against the Spartans, the Otoman corsairs catching slaves in Christian coasts (this is the origin of the Spanish expression "moors on the coast" as sign of potential menace), or Japanese pirates attacking Filipino coasts for the Spanish empire. Here it is not WotC's fault, but this potential controversy could hurt very much the prestige of the brand.</blockquote>