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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8487036" data-attributes="member: 7032025">That's exactly my point, and this is the part which annoys me with the rabid races-haters around the internet. D&D and in particular 5e aims at being a fairly simple game, and only a game, that is not meant to address deep moral or ethical issues. And it has always done this very well, but now the game is burdened with what seems a very large problem coming not at all from its simple perspective, but from the fact that only a very few races (again, mostly the orc and drows, most of the problems come from this although some cultural issues in some settings are inappropriate as well) create problems with real life stereotypes.But because it's the internet and people like to sound scandalised and make scenes, they blow this completely out of proportion and generalise the problem, in an environment which is simply not created to deal with this.I'm not sure that's possible, the two aims seem to be really at odds.Add to this the fact that, today, it's really hard to create something that does not offend at least someone somewhere and I think you see how the equation starts to become really unsolvable.Honestly, my feeling is that there are very few real issues, that WotC is addressing most of them by surgical changes and that hopefully this will blow over like the satanic craze of the past, leaving us with a game that can still be played simply and cleaned enough to feel inclusive (and honestly, it might be because I'm European and have different perspectives, but I've never met a player that felt actually offended by the game itself, and this in 40+ years of hard playing over 4 continents) for a huge majority of people.</blockquote>

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