Originally Posted by VeronicaTash
Indeed, but the OP is not asking for there to be people who are racist, but rather that racist tropes about fictional creatures be integrated into the game rules so that the game is racist, as opposed to displaying people expressing racism, as it does now. These are two different levels. In other words: there is a difference between having characters express racist values, as it does now (Shadowheart using a racial slur "flatnose," the racism expressed against drow and tieflings) and the game actually making all of those races exactly like those racist tropes as the OP is requesting.

Hell, I made a 3.5 homebrew race where the general trend of the members is to be racist against elves, dwarves, and half-orcs to varying degrees. But while they may think dwarves cursed by their goddess for improper breeding, that doesn't make that the truth behind dwarves. The OP is requesting that the racist trope that people hold be made definitive.

I think this is where we will have to agree to disagree.

In my decades of D&D never did I consider any of the monster races an analog of actual humans, since humans already had different ethnicities in the game. They were monsters to defeat before they accomplished their evil plans. The good monsters were the rare exceptions and not the norm. Could I sympathize with the few who wanted change? Absolutely but their numbers were so small, their struggles with acceptance would continue. So perhaps my view of fantasy races are more black and white.

The tropes are cruel and unkind to the monster races. But that’s what makes the exceptions so much more interesting.