D&D's Problematic Lore That Still Needs Fixing
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I love how they don't even try to mesh sexism, racism and slavery being always evil with the drow.
They just can't square 'always evil' being racist in the case of drow/orcs with the reality that the cultures, as written, are evil.
Sexism, homophobia and racism have almost no meaning anymore. It is also not the job of the game to decide that this are evil by themselves. If they are then let the game show not tell.
Is actually a lot more interesting to make appealing characters that are also racist. Elves and dwarves think poorly of others, this is interesting. It is racism? maybe but is not the all out evil the author thinks it is.
Racism as barely defined as it is today it is not evil, maybe slightly ignorant.
I still laugh at the wokists looking at DnD orcs and going: 'these are black.'
Excuse me? The rapist warmongers who are extreme barbarian stereotypes.... are coded black...? According to whom?
Says more about them and their views on black people than it does about orcs.