the problem with D&D Orc racial classification is not that orcs were necessarily designed to resemble black and/or poc cultures, but that the ideology of "this group of sentient beings is unable to overcome the inherent animal nature of their bloodline" is the same as irl racism

Anyone who is saying that this discourse is about anything else is being obtuse or smokescreening. Or they're just ACTUALLY racist, which, well, to be expected with ttrpg grognard discourse generally

Anyway this is why I generally encourage people to ignore or hack out any statistical racial designators in fantasy tabletops, because lbr most of the time it's This Shit again

& that's that on that!!!!

lol tweeting about obvious parallels between racist ideology & nerd shit on main is like this, every single time