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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8284010" data-attributes="member: 7023887">That's something to clear at a session 0 and using safety tools. Including Xenophobia in a campaign is not inherently harmful, but it can be to certain players and can be depending on how you implement it. Most of people in Khorvaire are Xenophobic against Warforged in Eberron, but it doesn't draw obvious parallels between the real world and that example, makes it absolutely clear that the xenophobia is bad, and tells DMs to include as much or as little of the xenophobia as they want in their campaigns. Depicting it as "unfortunate cultural reality" can be problematic, especially when that's the default. One could easily see parallels between that and the real life excuses used to try and justify racism. However, I'm not saying that is always going to be harmful, and I'm not saying it's bad to include that in your campaign. Again, clear this at your table with a Session 0, and most of these possible issues will not be issues. I gave an example above on how to handle xenophobia better than "that's just how the world works, sorry <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> ".Again, another thing to bring up at Session 0 and handle with safety tools. Most of the time it won't be a problem if your players don't have any sensitivity with stuff like this, especially if you handle it with care. A common issue I've had with slavery in D&D is that a ton of the time it comes across as blaming the victim, such as the Duergar's capture by the Mind Flayers, and similar examples. I can imagine others would have similar issues with stuff like that. The first and most important step is to try to avoid harm and make it clear that you're doing that to your players. People are much more sympathetic towards that attitude than the "It's not harming you if you're not at my table, so get over it!" attitude that I've seen dozens too many times (I'm not saying you're doing that, but your argument certainly sounds like it's trying to support that stance).</blockquote>

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