'Dungeons & Dragons' Tries To Banish Racist Stereotypes

"Eilistraee at 1/4 of the drow, Vhaeraun at about 1/3 and Lolth at slightly less than 1/2,.."

Source of those numbers? I am not sure what you mean--where did that number/stat come from please?

I think , if I may, that you have some issues with the rhetoric of some of the books, that may have been written by god-knows-what-intern and I'm not sure this rises to the level of concern that most would define reasonable. I live in Louisville and we have real race issues here. Cops murdered a young woman who was an EMT and an African American and she was shot to death by police who as of this writing have not been charged and of the three only one has been charged. Racism in real life is much more of an issue to most people than what color an elf in some game where dragons talk, rocks can have spirits, and magic is real. Surely in such an environment we can suspend 'real-world' concerns on a subjective level? I think as a DM the sensibilities and comfort levels of my players is paramount, and I will not have racists, genocidalists or other evil types as anything but villains, btu we need villains and they should be rotten--the rottener the better. Game worlds should be adapted to every group's individual tastes. Overarching 'game-wide' claims of racism, even among the original designers, is unfounded. I know a great many of them and none of them are racists; they are conservatives, many of them, libertarians but I don't discuss politics with them. The Bledsaw family was the source of Judges Guild and gave people like Kevin Sembieda a start, who went on to design Palladium games. Politics isn't what gets discussed. I have real life scenes in my games: sometimes bad shit happens. Does that means we go back and santize/bowlderize all the great works of fiction because they have bad characters? I am more than a little concerned about the flavor I'm getting from this. Racism in the real world is the issue, no? I play the game for a respite, isn't that the purpose of the hobby?

Free will is the ability for each PC to determine their own alignment, isn't that the way the game expresses it?

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