Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Wizards of The Coast Are Losing It" video.

@wolfofthewest8019 Good Orcs and Drow exist so players can use them as characters without having to roll up an evil character. There is literally no other reason. Most players are, frankly, not very good at roleplaying, but they want to be a scary pig dude with an axe or wicked dark skinned elf. Without the wickedness, I guess.
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@Evil0tto Orc chief: "Ehh, excuse me master Sauron, but we have decided to go on strike until further notice to protest being replaced by the Uruk-hai. Automation is harmful to the workforce and their families."
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I've only rolled up a character with my own disability (poor vision) once and it was a point buy system where having flaws gave you points to spend on other things. Almost every character I've rolled bears little to no resemblance to me personally. I'm a reserved, blunt person in real life and I'm currently playing an affable nobleman who is extremely good at socializing. Self-insertion has always been the mark of an inexperienced role-player, or worse, an inexperienced author -- it's much worse in novels.
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@christiangonzalez6945 I never really knew Thay to resemble a real world culture but if I had to choose it would be ancient Egypt vibes if anything.
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@alexbarn3841 My guy seriously over here implying that Arabs and Mexicans wear the same clothes across hundreds of years. You are the deluded one my smug friend.
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@sycoland1918 The Dark Sun setting has half-dwarves called Mul who, as the name implies, are infertile and are explicitly said to make good stock for slavery and manual labor.
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It's extremely obnoxious because that setting already existed, and it is called Shadowrun. You can be a Chinese dwarf, Mexican orc, etc. in those settings because metahumans are separate from ethnicity. Shadowrun also has a fantasy equivalent setting, Earthdawn. They don't even realize that they're trying and failing to steal SR/ED players.
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@FullPerspective There isn't a big difference in the way the labels are applied, but the political activists who use those labels would really, really like to think there is.
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Didn't they release a splatbook a few years ago that mentioned you can be a genderfluid Drow if you follow Eilistraee or something? Like they literally get an ability to change gender at a long rest.
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Obviously the situation is much improved if we paint the evil throwaway bad guys as Mexican rather than Mongolian. Right?
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@alexbarn3841 But you clearly did. We can all read your comment.
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@jonahelliot4241 They aren't 1 to 1 with any human culture, neither were Tolkien's orcs. They often have Mongol aesthetic themes (namely in clothing/armor designs) but that's to evoke the fact that they are the exterior threat, the enemy horde coming to burn and pillage your lands. If you want allegories and satire we have a setting for that. It's called Warhammer Fantasy.
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Honestly I always thought his books were overrated. Tried to read them in high school and couldn't, too boring, and I was a voracious reader in high school. FR was never very good from a narrative perspective in my opinion.
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@LB-yg2br The reason is ignorance. Race is a pseudoscientific word from the 19th century. We have ethnicities and haplogroups and phenotypes, but not race, it is not based on anything scientific. The reason why we still use the word is because America has been obsessed with it since the Civil War ended and American politics went on to shape the world in many ways. As much as I don't agree with progressives, it's hard to argue that "America was foundationally racist" is wrong when we had laws like the Three-Fifths Compromise and the "one drop rule." FYI, the Nazis looked at us for reference for how to write their legislation regarding Jewish lineage and thought "You know what? The one drop rule is too extreme." Such are the consequences of being born as, in large part, a mercantile slave colony.
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Ah yes, the dark skinned people who live underground and are ruled by matriarchical feuding noble families. This resembles so many real-world ethnicities and cultures. Like... uh...
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@thehoogard And yet oddly enough they keep writing settings where humans are the most numerous and therefore the default.
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@wwiiinplastic4712 It's also a massive waste of time. From what I understand the biggest sin Rings of Power commits is being boring. So why watch it?
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@Notsogoodguitarguy Well, if you wanted, you could easily contrive a reason why that is for Elves, like their bodies containing a different hormone from melanin.
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@davidwilson6577 I'm keeping shlebong.
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@crankysmurf Coolest disability implementation was Pathfinder with its Oracle class. It represents the classical blind or lame prophet trope and the disabilities eventually turn into advantages later (i.e. blind characters eventually get blindsight later IIRC, which is better than normal sight and they're immune to sight based effects like basilisk's gaze)
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