Shout-out to the podcast Three Black Halflings for going over a ton of shit like this. D&D's roots are problematic at best and there are a ton of issues that stem from it going into the present day. Imo the good and evil stuff should only be kept for literal angels and demons. I'm comfortable saying a devil is evil, I'm not comfortable saying an elf coded as black (drow) are inherently evil.
Eh, while drow skin is black nothing about them otherwise is even close to resembling real world cultures or societies. Orcs, on the other hand, are really the biggest offenders in this category. And don't get me started on Yuan-Ti.
Yeah the whole drow idea seems kind of sus to me. Like an evil faction that worships spiders and lives underground? Okay. Having them be all literally black because of them being evil? Not cool, even if there was no basis in actual racism. Also shouldn't people underground be albino?
D&D is so old and busted as a roleplaying system. I've no idea why people still play it in this day and age, other than inertia. There are so many better systems out there. Even back in the day there were better systems, like RuneQuest.
Shout-out to the podcast Three Black Halflings for going over a ton of shit like this. D&D's roots are problematic at best and there are a ton of issues that stem from it going into the present day. Imo the good and evil stuff should only be kept for literal angels and demons. I'm comfortable saying a devil is evil, I'm not comfortable saying an elf coded as black (drow) are inherently evil.
Eh, while drow skin is black nothing about them otherwise is even close to resembling real world cultures or societies. Orcs, on the other hand, are really the biggest offenders in this category. And don't get me started on Yuan-Ti.
Yeah the whole drow idea seems kind of sus to me. Like an evil faction that worships spiders and lives underground? Okay. Having them be all literally black because of them being evil? Not cool, even if there was no basis in actual racism. Also shouldn't people underground be albino?
That's how we play it. The only intrinsically Good and Evil beings are Angels and Fiends, and Angels never get involved in anything anyway.
D&D is so old and busted as a roleplaying system. I've no idea why people still play it in this day and age, other than inertia. There are so many better systems out there. Even back in the day there were better systems, like RuneQuest.
5e is really smooth, but I actually prefer RuneQuest too so yeah the main reason people play it is because everybody else plays it.