68 ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ To Remove Term ‘Race’ From Game Lexicon Due To Its “Prejudiced Links Between Real World And Fantasy Peoples” (boundingintocomics.com) posted 1 year ago by Galean 1 year ago by Galean +68 / -0 '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. 66 comments share 66 comments share save hide report block hide replies
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.