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Marly Halpern-Graser
MarlyHG
Something's been rattling around in my head and I want it to be in your heads too! In reaction to the Movement for Black Lives, there's been a lot of
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cavegirl
DyingStylishly
Thoughts on fantasy races:(disclaimer, I am very white, so take what I say with a pinch of salt and listen to the voices of marginalised people over me.)So I think
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Ajey Pandey
AjeyPandey
Hi folks. Orc discourse is happening.Let’s talk orcs.Let’s talk about a specific orc character pitch:Y’Gria Khaskia, Level 3 Orc Wizard (Divination)!ST: 8DX: 10CN: 12IN: 16WS: 14CH: 14 Y’Gria is one
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Rachel Judd
Stolen_Fire
Stories matter. Stories are powerful. Fiction is the brightest and strongest lens with which we use to look at ourselves and the society around us. The stories we tell each
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Grímnir Mäyrä-Parta: Master skeptomancer & skáld
Grimasaur
Orcs in fantasy are mostly traced back to Tolkien, but they also stem from the myths and legends Tolkien drew from, particularly pre-Christian Celtic, Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric myth (trolls, fomorians,
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Unvirtuous Abbey
UnvirtuousAbbey
Who would be the Lord of the Rings elves in church world? I assumed it would be the Episcopalians; however, it occurred to me they would be the wizards. I
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⚰ theodude ⚰
docfission
aragorn: you must call for aid. gondor will answertheoden: idk calling a bunch of dudes for aid? sounds pretty sus helms deep gets vibe checked denethor, directly into the camera:
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cozy baking monk
thesravaka
alright, let's do another one. 1 like = one thing from my fantasy world. ever since the god of nature was slain, the forces of nature have gone mad. now
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Hector Navarro
Hectorisfunny
I'm curious to know how many people defending fantasy Orcs as NEVER being representative of nonwhite races in the historically majority white genre, are white themselves.I love fantasy and RPGs.
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Kazumi Chin
kazumiochin
If your ttrpg story involves SYSTEMS OF POWER, it is a POLITICAL STORY.Any decision you make with regards to power both in character and out of character is a POLITICAL
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The Rotund Dungeon Master (nsfr)
BigSquishyDM
So, one of my biggest complaints about D&D is how it treats races.Ability scores have no place being in races. Saying all orcs are naturally stupid so they get a
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Amr Ammourazz
ammourazz
Hey so if you’re stumbling into the D&D orc discourse and are one of the handful of people here with an open-mind and a genuine desire to understand what’s going
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James ☂️ Haeck
jamesjhaeck
I'm gonna stay in my lane and not comment on today's discourse, beyond this: if you create a sapient "race" of beings, making them innately evil is fucked up. Especially
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Rach
SocialNomadRach
Everytime they say "racially coded" know that they are gaslighting you. They're too scared to say "Tolkien based orcs on black people" directly because they know that will be false
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Makenzie De Armas 🌟
MakenzieLaneDA
This is the one thing I’ll say:Yes, orcs and goblins and elves aren’t real. But the people who play the game are—the people who write the game are. You cannot
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Effy, Letting Out A Heaving Sigh Of Relief At Last
EffInvictus
A very spicy take: the fact that the most recent edition of D&D is willing to countenance nonbinary elves but repeats racist hackery from a decade ago about orcs is
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