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<blockquote data-quote="codo" data-source="post: 8867828" data-attributes="member: 94626">I am not saying D&amp;D is racist, not all of it anyways.&nbsp; There are parts of it in the past the were deliberately intended to be racist.&nbsp; There were, and still are, parts that are inadvertently or subconsciously racist.D&amp;D plays with mixing lots of different fantasy, historical, and literary tropes.&nbsp; It is suppressing easy for a game designer with the best of intentions, to accidentally revert to racist tropes.&nbsp; Look at the whole Hadozee mess.&nbsp; I don't think it was intentionaly intended to be racist, but it really shows you always using professional sensitivity readers is such a good idea.&nbsp; When you are working with a setting that includes flying monkey people, looting and pillaging pirates from the age of sail, Eldritch Monsters that enslave entire races, and bards that dance around the dungeon with a lute, you don't need to intend to be racist to stumble into a horrible idea.I will give WotC credit, they are trying, and the developers do seem like they care.&nbsp; This isn't something you can just declare solved and not have to talk about anymore.&nbsp; That is how you end up with problems like the Hodozee, in the first place.&nbsp; This isn't blaming anyone or making them feel bad about the past, it is making sure this issue don't keep happening.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="codo, post: 8867828, member: 94626"] I am not saying D&D is racist, not all of it anyways. There are parts of it in the past the were deliberately intended to be racist. There were, and still are, parts that are inadvertently or subconsciously racist. D&D plays with mixing lots of different fantasy, historical, and literary tropes. It is suppressing easy for a game designer with the best of intentions, to accidentally revert to racist tropes. Look at the whole Hadozee mess. I don't think it was intentionaly intended to be racist, but it really shows you always using professional sensitivity readers is such a good idea. When you are working with a setting that includes flying monkey people, looting and pillaging pirates from the age of sail, Eldritch Monsters that enslave entire races, and bards that dance around the dungeon with a lute, you don't need to intend to be racist to stumble into a horrible idea. I will give WotC credit, they are trying, and the developers do seem like they care. This isn't something you can just declare solved and not have to talk about anymore. That is how you end up with problems like the Hodozee, in the first place. This isn't blaming anyone or making them feel bad about the past, it is making sure this issue don't keep happening. [/QUOTE]

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