See, but here's the thing. It infects virtually every aspect of the game. And, because fantasy is an extremely conservative fandom, tropes are very, very difficult to criticize or examine. Elves are isolationist and snooty. Why? Because that's how Tolkien wrote them, that that's how they are. Halflings as stand ins for idealized English farmers. So on and so forth. And because so much of this is never analyzed, it gets passed on again and again. And, once you start overlaying those surface trappings of a cultures, without actually taking the time to examine the roots of those trappings, we wind up where we are now - with a miss mash of stuff that's part fantastic ideas and part racist garbage.