People need to recognize the difference between Wizards and Larian. Wizards has been hyper-woke for at least 10 years; their newest versions of DnD conflate species and race by implication when they remove race-specific bonuses, as but one tiny example. Given that Larian is adapting the most recent version of DnD, I'd say so far that they've actually toned DOWN the wokeness quite a bit. Don't get me wrong, the basic outlines are almost always still there, but they're not trumpeted at you constantly. The result is that the game truly feels very open -- you can roleplay however you like, including Super Straight or what have you, and the game more than accomodates it. At least so far... (still early in the story)
People need to recognize the difference between Wizards and Larian. Wizards has been hyper-woke for at least 10 years; their newest versions of DnD conflate species and race by implication when they remove race-specific bonuses, as but one tiny example. Given that Larian is adapting the most recent version of DnD, I'd say so far that they've actually toned DOWN the wokeness quite a bit. Don't get me wrong, the basic outlines are almost always still there, but they're not trumpeted at you constantly. The result is that the game truly feels very open -- you can roleplay however you like, including Super Straight or what have you, and the game more than accomodates it. At least so far... (still early in the story)