Racial bigotry BTFO

[Clockwork Knight]

2019: Agendered elves? That sounds like you're pandering, but okay I guess they're elves so it's believa-
2020: Morally and culturally complex orcs
2021: ________

 

[Bara]

I particularly enjoy Crawfords mental gymnastics for why its okay for Gnolls to remain all evil but not orcs



Gnolls are made by a fiend and thus are actually fiends and not humanoids and can be a okay to label as evil only.

Yet Orcs who pretty much have the same origins in FR can't because they get to keep their humanoid tag.

 

[Whimper]

I particularly enjoy Crawfords mental gymnastics for why its okay for Gnolls to remain all evil but not orcs



Gnolls are made by a fiend and thus are actually fiends and not humanoids and can be a okay to label as evil only.

Yet Orcs who pretty much have the same origins in FR can't because they get to keep their humanoid tag.

The comments are illuminating. From one Mr Kramer: 'In the future, can we ditch the meaningless concept of race completely? Elves, gnolls, aaracockra and so forth are different sentient *species*'

Has it ever been denied that they were supposed to be different sentient species though?

 

[orcinator]

incline in other words) separating biological and cultural ancestry opens up some nice opportunities.

Cultural traits and species traits get combined because DnD wants to balance the weird monster mash with the different colored humans by having the monsters get weird abilities like nightvision and slime powers and give the normies +2 to a skill or two, (which might end up being more useful depending on how easy it is to buy gear that gives you the equivalent of the weirdo's powers or it might be a joke like getting a +x to evaluate rocks).
It's doable in a system with modified character generation but DnD also wants to be kept simple to appeal to non-autists so I doubt this will do anything but result in more homogenized monster races.