It's annoying, I get banned on steam forums for saying we should kill these people, yet they're all okay with them being racist genocidal freaks? Crazy moderation principles there, Gabe.

To be fair, he didn't invent the concept, drow are based on the Norse Dökkálfar, including the "dwelling within the earth" and behaving opposite to the """good""" elves who dwelled in Alfheimr in the heavens.

Still, choosing to adapt it verbatim was all him, as well as all the additional traits like being pro slavery (which was not in the Norse dark elf lore) and infanticide.

Gary Gygax was....um.....more than a bit questionable himself.

In an online forum post he commented that killing goblin babies is normal (if not inherently good) and compared it with......well.....so apparently there was a military general responsible for the mass killing of indigenous people who said of the killing of children 'nits make lice', and Gary used this quote to explain why killing goblin babies was fine. He used an example of a person saying this about human beings for why he supported killing fictional infants. There are many awful excuses he could have used, but I genuinely don't think he could have used a worse one than this.

smh woke took away our evil elves. but of course anti-illithid sentiment is alive and well.

PS. The one that really gets me is the person talking about them multiplying and killing farmers trying to guilt the person as if any of this is real

There's this weird thing that happens when someone is both an uber lore nerd and a "curtains are always blue" fascist. They get into this weird space where they genuinely don't seem to understand it is a work of fiction anymore. You see it a lot with 40k nerds.

Gamers love choice except when it's people choosing to not be a sadist

talking about them multiplying and killing farmers trying to guilt the person

They've internalized big beef talking points so deeply they think that wolves are real life kobolds

Authors have explored the idea but it's not really a feature of D&D unfortunately, especially with the mechanics reinforcing it constantly. There's just the occasional Good member of an Evil species rather than species not being inherently good or evil.

I'm glad Paizo killed that sacred cow, I just wish it hadn't taken until the remaster.

Drizzt is not a good example; the Drow are still explicitly evil in those books and Drizzt hates them and acknowledges that they're evil. Fantasy is unfortunately terrible for this, but there is a book that's not only fantastic, but it's based in a setting that reverberates the sentiment of monsters not being inherently evil: 'Queen of stone' set in the Eberron setting by Keith Baker, the setting's creator.

Annoyingly it's now available in kindle form; when I searched for it about...ten years ago? There was no digital version of the book at that time.

The main character is a bodyguard sent with a diplomat to a major diplomatic event in the lands of Droaam (a land of monsters; medusas, minotaurs, gnolls, ogres, hags, etc.) and the races there are portrayed very normally; I recall reading an essay by (Keith Baker?) where he explained how in his setting the only inherently evil races are demonic beings (who are made of the evil stuff in the abyss; they are not formed from human souls) or the creatures from the dream realm whose mentality is utterly alien to human thinking who went on to create illithids and other similar creatures. Goblins in Eberron in the ancient times had an extremely advanced empire but were defeated by the numerous barbarian human tribes and eventually their civilization collapsed and now live in poverty in human cities instead.

Unfortunately even though Eberron has much going for it.....I'm not a steampunk/entire-cities-are-made-of-artifice/airships guy. I like my fantasy settings basic.

No BuT ThEy WeRe AtYPiCaL

Im trying to work out if Anime has always been like this, or if this is a new trend I'm only now clocking onto as it parallels my increasing awareness of the far-right?

Dungeon Meshi represents orcs very well, they're a society based on raiding and seen as savages, because they were banned from owning land on the surface and forced into dungeons. They turn out to be very reasonable people and are honestly more civilised than Laios, the main character.

Idk. Goblin slayer is one of the most heinous with it. The goblins only procreate byremoved humans. The very first episode they show aremoved scene. They always bring a cute looking girl for this exact purpose. Their only motivation isremoved, pillage, burn. Even the apostles in berserk have some character like the Count saving his daughter and sending himself to hell to do that. Goblin slayer? Shit they went out of their way to show what happens when you spare a goblin. They showed that child killing the person that spared him and it growing into a goblin king, Its every fascists wet dream. It gets so bad it has to be satire of some sort not to side eye this show

Gnomes are my son

Checkmate liberal

Hell yeah lizards rule

but gamers are already so deeply oppressed 🥺🥺🥺