Originally Posted by Edvin Black
I don't think that game studios have the balls to introduce a shorter race with romance in this woke age.
I bet there would definitely be some idiots who would try to accuse them of pedophilia or something stupid like that.
A hairy male dwarf with a long beard might get pass, but shortstack woman certainly not.

Erm, I think that suggesting romances with adult but short women was somehow equivalent to paedophilia would be the very opposite of woke!

Though I also think that the word "woke" now carries so much political baggage and different meanings to different people that it's become unusable in sensible online debate and is best avoided in any place, like here, where political discussion that's not directly related to the game is discouraged.

Personally, I'd never even considered that folk might object to romances with gnomes, halflings and dwarves on the grounds that they are "childlike", and that's not how I see those races at all. I'd hope that any studio would have some evidence of such attitudes, and that they were both widespread and worthy of being taken into account, before second guessing public opinion in such a way. But perhaps such evidence exists? I'll admit it's not a discussion I recall seeing elsewhere.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"