Outside of its D&D novels, almost all of the material published by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons & Dragons - like the upcoming Icewind Dale adventure - is designed to be relayed to players second-hand through their Dungeon Master. With new a new D&D Campaign Book around the corner, the publishers continued commitment remains to be seen.įor many players, these changes are unlikely to affect their experience of playing D&D 5e for several reasons. Wizards of the Coast also states that it will continue a trend of presenting orcs and drow in particular in a new light, which the publisher claims to have already done in its two most recently published 5th edition books, the campaign Eberron: Rising from the Last War, and The Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount.

Wizards of the Coast’s press release states that “some of the peoples in the game-orcs and drow being two of the prime examples-have been characterized as monstrous and evil, using descriptions that are painfully reminiscent of how real-world ethnic groups have been and continue to be denigrated.”īased on the release, the decision will come into effect in the next printed edition of its 5th Edition books, including removing “racially insensitive” text from Tomb of Annihilation and Curse of Strahd due to the depiction of the Vistani, a group of humans based on a pop-cultural idea of the Romani which Wizards of the Coast says echoed “some stereotypes associated with the Romani people in the real world.”

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