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.”
