'Dungeons & Dragons' To Remove Term 'Race' From Game Lexicon Due To Its "Prejudiced Links Between Real World And Fantasy Peoples...
Wizards of the Coast has officially announced that the term 'race' will no longer feature in any 'Dungeons & Dragons' material.
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On the plus side, that removes any moral problems from eating elves and orcs.
Orcs: What moral problems? <nom nom nom>
It's true: Orcs ARE delicious. All the elves in those japanese cartoons seem to think so, at least.
That's because the japanese keep depicting orcs as pig-men. It was once explained to me that in the first edition if D&D that was imported there, the illustration of orcs had pig snouts, and that's what stuck.
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Does anyone else honestly find the idea of Half-Orcs in the game rather disturbing? Orcs in D&D are meant to be evil to the core, complete violent savages that attack, raid, and kill anyone who isn't them. It's why they're listed as enemies and never as playable (homebrew notwithstanding). Which means there's this odd elephant in the room where you have these half-breeds running around that were conceived from a union between orcs and humans. There's pretty much only one way those people could be brought about, but the franchise doesn't ever consider discussing it, and seems to treat Half-Orcs as perfectly normal even though by all accounts they absolutely are not.
Older editions weren't cucks about it (ironically, given it is NTR), and said straight-up that most half-orcs are rape babies, either of human women in outskirt towns, or of enslaved orc women for men with peculiar tastes.
Ebberon has a neat way of addressing it: The world of Ebberon is very, very young, like only 2000-odd years old, some beings were around when it first came into existence, and kidnapped/abducted a sample of all life to begin there. Half-orcs and Half-elves are among those kidnapped, and the original bloodline of them, breeding true to only other halves to the lineage of the first arrivals, gives rise to Dragonmarks, powerups. Those born of inter-breeding humans and other races, technically resulting in the same half-race, are low mongrels and do not get Dragonmarks. So you can prove if you're a pureblooded half-elf or a bastard child one by showing your tattoos, and there's a clear caste system there.
I think it was Neverwinter Nights, or perhaps Baldur's Gate, that said something to the effect of "due to the implications behind your existence, you get a penalty to speech because people innately dislike you" in the description for half orcs.
The only reason half orcs aren't explicitly called out as rape babies in the original texts is because a DM could build a world in which that's not true. Maybe humans are evil too. Or maybe it's a world like FATAL where everyone is constantly fucking everything they see.
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They are looking to replace race with species. This is kind of strange since I remember a lot of people saying this for a long time as it is more accurate then race.
The fact that they are considering it tells me that they are losing a lot of money and want a quick fix for all the "race" changes the woke are demanding.
"orcs are black-coded" meets "orcs are a different species than humans"
Man they really can't stop kicking themselves in the dick, can they?
In fairness, blacks wouldn't even be considered the same species if not for interbreeding.
There are 17 species of cottontail rabbits. Each can interbreed with the other 16, and as far as I know all combinations are viable. But this isn't considered a barrier to being considered different species because they aren't considered to do so 'often'. The 'can interbreed' definition is absolutely out of fashion, it interferes with creating new barriers to construction and industrialization.
Neandertal were fucked out of existence and yet no scientist seriously argues they are the species as us. Yet if we Jurassic Parked a few thousand of them up tomorrow, how many years do you think it would take before calling them a different species became a hate crime and got Ye kicked off twitter?
If we applied the same standards to humans, we'd probably have a few dozen species. I mean, christ, the 'unlikely to breed often' metric would let you make a case that Plenty of Fish users are a different species from Grindr users despite a complete overlap of territory and diet.
I often say, to those who think that orcs are a caricature of black people, that they can't be, because they have no racial bonus to thievery, they have a racial increase to strength which increases their ability to swim, and they are often very proud of their lineage and stick around to raise their children.
But remember, around elves... watch yourselves.
Solid advice.
I thought elves were stand-ins for the chosen now? All thanks to Seth Rogen.
They have been losing money for a while, and have been looking to get more of that ESG money I'm assuming. Like most fantasy/sci-fi series that are rejecting their core audience in favour of progressive mercenaries who won't actually buy or play it.
Really? Because to me, it seems like woke are the only ones playing these games anymore. It's impossible to find a gaming group anywhere, online or off, that doesn't consist mostly of retarded leftists.
That's because the groups that don't want to be infiltrated aren't accessable to the outside world.
Yep. My group pretty much only lets in people after we have vetted them through other games like Red Dragon Inn (which we consider to be both a good ice-breaker and a good way of weeding out ultra-soy).
In all of my campaigns, there has been consistent themes of races be racist toward each other, egalitarian societies being exceptions, and always sticking to whatever my storyline is supposed to be with no consideration for how "woke" it is, just what is fun and what makes sense.
And of course, the only thing we care about in the rulebooks is guidelines. I dont even KNOW what the official Race lore is for DND, because I always go with my own campaigns lore. I have 3 different campaigns at the moment, and just as one example Orcs are different in all three of them.
The one I've seen their YouTube channel for and are more just a general gaming group with some Tabletop games going on inside the group.
The Black Pants Legion. Finding the path to even submit your application for consideration is trial. You have to watch the Battletech videos put out by Tex and watch through them for the coded message or link that'll tell you where to submit.
Outside of that you'll have to get lucky playing a game with a member out in public and they'll have to find you interesting enough to offer you a chance at submissions.
Listen to their podcast and see if you'd feel like a good fit.
I know Tex and the BPL. But as much as I love watching Tex do stupid shit in games and talk about Battletech, I don’t really feel like joining. Especially when I have my own friend group where we do our own stupid shit.
Fair enough. Just adding that there are those around keeping up their own Bulwark to the nonsense spreading elsewhere.
I know of one in particular that has strict admittance rules.
You have to make your own group. And it needs to be explicitly right-wing to keep out the retards. Which means you can't advertise it anywhere.
So basically you just need to know people irl already and get them into the hobby or try having a game with anons here or on RW twitter
The soy bugmen still play things like that and follow the progressive rules because they are slaves. I'm sure there are many progressives that play too, but usually they aren't too bad about it or the group would implode.
The good groups would all keep to themselves and don't have the need to be public about it, because it's a place for them to take it easy and express themselves.
Geeks and Gamers has setup a Guilded group (Alternative to Discord) for their Tabletop stuff and they've got a few games going there for fans and people just looking to play.
That's my experience as well.
WotC has become quite the Albatross for Hasbro. The number of MtG decks coming out is hampering sales for them as it is limiting it's ability to get players. Doubling down on this SJW crap with D&D is making it sink fast.
We should make the same change in real life.
"Oh, me? I'm a homo sapiens germanica x homo sapiens franca hybrid."
This is the kind of antiracist thinking that leads to saying things like "the ontologically evil race of bestial, ugly creatures who live in filth and revel in death, destruction, and the desecration of all that is good and holy is clearly a metaphor for black people" and not realizing what you just said for even 1 second.
To be fair, they don't think those traits accurately describe black people. They think those traits accurately describe racist stereotypes of black people.
I think better evidence that they're full of shit is that they can't decide which group is the orcs are supposedly a metaphor for, black people or Asians.
My character is a level 51 Grand Dragon and he welcomes this distinction. Next up, a purification ritual for all half-breeds, dark magics, and goblins.
Isn't that like 31 levels higher than the rules allow for? Like at level 51 your character can probably 1 shot statted PLANETS.
Someone never read the Epic Level Handbook.
Grand Dragons are a more arcane magic, higher levels are needed to attain the status. A lower level would only qualify as a Grand Wizard.
There's some precedent.
The Neverwinter Nights games have epic levels past level 20. NWN 2 goes to 30 AFAIK. NWN 1 even goes to 40. And that was almost 2 decades ago.
Isn't that more of the niche forms of DnD rather than main-line? How fucking stronk is a level 40 then? God-smashing?
Yes. Max level in NWN is strong to the point of absurdity. You're basically a deity. But it's also not terribly feasible to reach that point without a stupid amount of grinding.
I only played D&D so I could call dwarves "filthy diggers" and act super racist towards them. If anyone stuck up for them, call them a digger lover. Make them sit in the back of the wagon. Also for variety sake, call them mud people & cave monkeys.
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Either the various races are genetically compatible, and are thus only cosmetically different, or they are not genetically compatible and all the half-breeds need to be gone.
I agree with this part. I understand why people want to play as a thiefling or half-something but I never liked it. There is a reason why most mix of tigers and lions are sterile. Elves are not humans with pointy ears but at least there is some reason for it from Tolkien but I am not even sold on half-elves.
You know someone is playing for the first time when they decide to play as a Tiefling. Everything about it, from its appearance to its origin just screams "Look at how unique I am!"
Well, it might be like polar bears and grizzley bears: They can interbreed, but only a rare few of them are genetically able to reproduce further. Those ones in turn have more children, becoming instantly the dominant genetic strain since there's literally no competition. And unlike bears, these are sapient creatures.
So a halfie born of two halfies is viable, but one born of mixed parentage is sterile.
Fuck you wizards. The second you showed the signs of woke, I instantly dropped everything you own, every IP and moved over to the Onyx Path and Exalted. I convinced all my table top companions to do the same and we will never go back. Not only because the storyteller system is functionally better than DnD in literally every way, but also the system straight up warns you that there is racism, rape, violence and bigotry as part of the game, and why it's good for the world lore, by generating drama. Also, it's fucking fiction. At least the Onyx Path are not a bunch of frightened, retarded children.
I honestly think it is because they are tired to bending the knee. I'm sure all people involved are leftists but leftists eat each other all the time and having to make sure not to offend their own people is tiresome. If they separate race from real life race they have more creative freedom. I'm also taking it as a sign that financially they are doing very poorly and need to put out content that people want to play, hence it can't be just woke indoctrination.
We're talking about a universe where races who look similar and can get along band together and kill other races almost certainly because of their race. Hell, the races are declared by alignment (like, Chaotic Evil, for example) suggesting that a race is evil and will always be hostile. The whole game is basically a conflict between races of players (humanlike) and monsters (devils, beasts, demons, dragons etc).
It wasn't until we let moral busybodies infest it that they fully infect it but... good news is on the horizon.
D&D's playership is dropping - as we expected, the pronoun people are more interested in asserting dominance and less interested in the game itself, they're moving on to other things while the sweaty D&D nerds are still declaring race wars every day in their renovated nerd-garages with their high school friends.
heh some cultists absolutely buttfucking your hobby.
I'm so tired of absolutely everything needing to be a vehicle for propaganda as its primary function. Can't D&D just be a way for nerds to roll some dice and have adventures in a fantasy world? Is that so much to ask for?
Yes it can. You just have to play 3rd edition/3.5 or older.
Ah well. I had a burgeoning interest. That just died.
They're all gay Tieflings now.
Try trans half-succubus
cucks and faggots ruining things made by those infinitely their greater.
I mean, I've always thought humans should be labeled as different species instead of race as well. Good move on their part being more accurate!
I completely agree, not only that but I would remove most half-breeds or make them infertile by default. Thing is they didn't do it for being accurate, they just can't sustain a leftist model of creativity, anything is racist if you are woke enough so this is a desperate attempt to distance themselves from real life races (eg. orcs being black people) so they can actually have a bit of creative freedom.
but race is real....
I’ve only played D&D a few times but when did the nonsense start? Also I’m sure there were always minorities who played D&D but the majority of fans were/are white. Not sure what is more triggering to these morons, men enjoying a hobby or white people enjoying a hobby.
DnD and pathfinder forums did have a more woke bent before the world was crazy woke. I remember discussion on some pathfinder forums on how this race of apes was racist because it lived in a jungle that at the south of the more european centered region - hence it must be africa and those apes must be black people. This people do not see how racist they sound. I also remember discussions on how DnD hell was misogynistic because it had more male rulers then female - it was so much talk about it that I think they changed it now to be more on par. And this was old stuff, I was just brushing it off some crazy quirky fans that cared to much, I did not realize that it was just the woke infiltrating the hobby.
DnD also tends to attract more left leaning types because the role playing part of it allows some of them to be their "true selves" or other such nonsense. Previously It attracted a more Christian influenced crowd since you could play as a virtuous paladin that battled devils, demons and came in the defense of the weak. Now evil is problematic, is so problematic that in BG3 they removed alignments entirely. Races are also problematic because orcs and a race of monkey people are considered metaphors for black people - yes really, is as racist as it sounds.
It's a mess, fortunately no one can force you to play by their rules and there are even some old school alternatives. The amount of material out there to play AD&D or even 3.5 rules is more then you will reasonably play in your life time.
Thanks. Just pisses me off how hobbies get infiltrated and ruined
Changing it to 'species' will surely not be interepreted by wokesters as saying 'non-whites aren't human'!