As a game heavily nuanced by race systems, it is but inevitable that stereotypes exist specific to the different races. For example, any DnD player or enthusiast will know that Bards are typically silly, lascivious creatures while Barbarians are generally all brawn and no brain. The key words in the last sentence are “typically” and “generally”, and it is very important that we do not overgeneralise anyone, be it people or Bards or Barbs or Orcs. Speaking about Orcs, their situation appears to be getting some improvement, as DnD‘s new book, Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, now has an alternative orc race who are not evil, violent meatheads by nature.
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I love orcs, always play one when Im not dming
“Let’s not start bashing DnD for being racist”
Good, let’s not confuse fantasy for kids with real life and make serious accusations…
“…because they just took it from Tolkien “Othering” biased ethnocentrism yadda yadda”
Oh, ok, so you WERE calling DnD racist, just indirectly.