Talk:Appalachia (5e Campaign Setting)

I seem to be building three campaigns within the Appalachia setting.

1. Hispaniola starting in 1512, focused on present day Latin America, pirates and conquistadors and having the high elves driving all the Iberian settlers back to Hispaniola.
2. The human invasion starting in 1612.
3. The Indian elven reconquest starting in 1712.
4. Appalachia proper starting in 1812.
5. Pacific starting in 1912, focused on the areas surrounding the Pacific ocean.

Arquebus (talk) 12:26, 23 November 2021 (MST)

This setting is disgustingly racist

In this alternate world, gnomes are a transparent caricature of the Jewish people, Muslims are literally descended from demons, Orcs are an orientalist cliché, angels come from mythical Thule (HUGE red flag), Africa and Australia are deliberately afterthoughts, and the only proper humans are white Europeans who "are under attack from all sides."

It's trying to mix fantasy stereotypes with early american stereotypes, and the authors obviously knew what that would birth. It's not too different than Lord of The Rings in that regard. If you try to draw parallels from every single part of the setting you're gonna find countless things to clutch your pearls about. It's not setting out to create racist implications, just provide an interesting take on old ideas (some race and stereotype combination seem decided by blind darts, why are the bird people jews?). The introductory statement also warns of this so it's not like arquebus can be accused of setting the wrong expectations. vladulenta (talk)