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D&D Looks To Cut Down On Racial Differences Going Forward
Races and classes have been the central aspects of character creation since the beginning of Dungeons & Dragons – well, not quite the beginning, since Elf used to be a class in original D&D. However, based on a twitter thread by D&D's Jeremy Crawford, it looks like Wizards of the Coast will be moving toward less drastic racial mechanics, especially in regard to races traditionally considered "monster races."
Crawford pointed out the differences between the orcs found in Volo's Guide to Monsters and those found in the Exandria and Eberron settings, saying that the latter reflects the direction that the D&D team is headed in regard to monsters. The Exandria and Eberron orcs lack the -2 penalty to Intelligence and the required evil alignment. This reflects the fact that in these settings orcs are mostly considered another type of people – with all the varieties in personality and temperament that come with that – rather than fodder for player characters to fight.
[...] It is worth noting that this comes on the heels of a Twitter discussion on the racist history of orcs, initially spawned by a screenshot of the description of orcs in Volo's Guide to Monsters. Tolkien initially portrayed orcs as caricatures of Mongolians, and orcs have been racial stereotypes of other races over and over (see World of Warcraft or Bright). Dungeons & Dragons is not immune to this – even outside of the orc issue, races like the Vistani appear as Romani stereotypes.
Diversity and Dungeons & Dragons
Throughout the 50-year history of D&D, some of the peoples in the game—orcs and drow being two of the prime examples—have been characterized as monstrous and evil, using descriptions that are painfully reminiscent of how real-world ethnic groups have been and continue to be denigrated. That's just not right, and it's not something we believe in. Despite our conscious efforts to the contrary, we have allowed some of those old descriptions to reappear in the game. We recognize that to live our values, we have to do an even better job in handling these issues. If we make mistakes, our priority is to make things right.
See also: Dungeons & Dragons Designers Clarify How Gnolls Differ From Other D&D Creatures
Related: Gender and Appearance Stereotypes Travel to World of Warcraft
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2020, @06:10AM (1 child)
let's compare that to our world
see where it gets us
sub-race of the elves that hate all other elves
muslims hate each other and everyone else.
it's in their book
their actions reflect this
I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world.
-- and pretty much anything else
again with islam
read the book
They live under ground and they worship a demonic spider queen
they live in a desert and worship a god whose prophet was a pedophile, betrayer, liar, thief, murderer including lying to the father of the last girl child he married by having sexual intercourse with her before menarche when he gave his word he wouldn't
the koran describes allah as the best deceiver there is, a liar who is not above using the same evil and wicked schemes of his opponents
Their entire society is in service of that
islam
To get ahead in their society you pretty much have to kill whom you want to become.
muhammad is seen as the epitome of what a human should be like, the life of whom can serve as a beacon of guidance for people of every walk of life
when your prophet is a raping, murdering, lying, deceiving, child molesting terrorist what can you expect of the followers
Drizzt Du'urden is more or less one of extremely few counter examples to the typical drow.
the gay King Mahmud of Ghazni gave his male lover Malik Ayaz a kingdom if this counts
any of the above can be found by a quick search on the internet with references to evidence and documents
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2020, @03:50PM
they probably meant the Jews, but Mohammedanism was just a rip off of Judaism anyways so either one is fine.