God, I always hated those fcking pushes to include magical wheelchairs. Any adventurer, or even just a guard NPC or whatever, that has enough money/magical materials/influence to acquire such a battletank abomination of a wheelchair, has to have enough resources to properly fix his health condition. No sane person would ever voluntarily choose to remain a cripple.
WotC: "So we need to sweeten the deal, eh? What if the wheelchair can talk? If swords can talk, then so can wheelchairs. Would you stay a cripple to use a talking, magical wheelchair? No? What if it has a built-in flamethrower?"
I showed this image to my mexican player (we didn't discuss it earlier, because the game was on a brief hiatus), and she was incredibly offended at the implications and asked how did it get past the sensitivity readers. We've also noticed that all dwarves on their art are racially diverse, and all elves are racially diverse. But the orcs are all mexicans.This looks like a Chinese propaganda poster.
Somehow, we went from "Orcs are blacks, and that's rayciss" to "Orcs are mexicans (and that's a good thing)".
WotC: "Latinos will love this representation of orcs, it highlights their culture and makes it shine even in a fantasy world!"I showed this image to my mexican player (we didn't discuss it earlier, because the game was on a brief hiatus), and she was incredibly offended at the implications and asked how did it get past the sensitivity readers. We've also noticed that all dwarves on their art are racially diverse, and all elves are racially diverse. But the orcs are all mexicans.This looks like a Chinese propaganda poster.
Somehow, we went from "Orcs are blacks, and that's rayciss" to "Orcs are mexicans (and that's a good thing)".
Maybe they are disabled because no cleric would cast high level healing spells on them? Maybe they are atheists or something.
They're considered a player character / protagonist in fantasy these days.
It lends itself well to the common liberal cliche plot of "the monsters are just poor victims, the real bad guys are (white) humans". It's stupid and makes every fantasy race just reskinned humans, but it's what the liberal crowd wants, and what they're getting.
I think they started with World of Warcraft, then in the Drizzt books, some orcs were portrayed as civilized. Later, this portrayal was retconned back and forth without clear reasons. I guess they absolutely want to move away from Tolkien's vision, where orcs symbolized industry ravaging nature and had nothing to do with black people, Mexicans, or any race at all. Elves were otherworldly creatures more akin to Nordic people. Now, you get African American trans female-to-male elves with mastectomy scars. I'm not even making that up as you saw already.
It was when lefties figured out that black people are pretty similar to orcs. Seriously.
The revised edition of Pathfinder 2e meanwhile has several coreI showed this image to my mexican player (we didn't discuss it earlier, because the game was on a brief hiatus), and she was incredibly offended at the implications and asked how did it get past the sensitivity readers. We've also noticed that all dwarves on their art are racially diverse, and all elves are racially diverse. But the orcs are all mexicans.This looks like a Chinese propaganda poster.
Somehow, we went from "Orcs are blacks, and that's rayciss" to "Orcs are mexicans (and that's a good thing)".
in medieval frescos and paintings where magic and sorcery are clearly real, was there ever a single image of a black person? what if their real job is to report wizards to the vatican and that's why nobody can cast fireball anymore?
It started in the Forgotten Realms with Grey Orcs. Mountain Orcs, the OG d&d Orcs were the classic "pig faced" brutal rapist Orcs (yeah, thats where your half orc PC came from), then they introduced Grey Orcs to the Forgotten Realms setting via a portal to a world full of hyper religious Orcs (somewhere near Thay in setting) which were more "civilized" and allowed a player to be a full fledged Orc without being a rapist.
This sounds like another case of getting your hobby invaded by women.
In that aspect, I think it goes further back to Drizzt being a good Drow ranger, and being super cool to where they added melee and dual wielding to rangers. It blurred the cut and dry line of "this group is evil" towards #NotAllGroup thinking. It went from the rare exception, i.e. an individual, to a more wide sweeping thing when it comes to villainous creatures. It also stems from the shift from making a realistic villain with understandable motives to the newer trend of sympathetic villains. Look at Ron Howard's "The Grinch" where he became the Grinch because he was bullied for being different. Disney can't make a live action villain adaptation now without resorting to that.
