So I guess I'm writing now. My blog is going to be dedicated to dungeons and dragons and how it might correlate to racism. Does it affect it? I don;t know but I'm gonna try and find out. I first thought of this idea when I started playing d&D back in 2000 and,... um... like.... 15? 16 maybe? I didn't give it a lot of thought, because I had giants to kill, but it kind of dawned on me later, especially afteri had started dming that I was treating different races differently based on their diffreentness because the game said that elves thought themselves better than everyone and so did humans and dwarves thought they were better than elves and orcs were inferior to evereyone but only because they were more savage and I really kinda didnt think that was fair and oh gods this is a lot of typing but im glad most of my words are spelled correctly and I think this is going to be a fun topic because I love d&d and i love spouting off about d&d and gods I really wish I was playing d&D right now. I'm the type of fucking ners that keeps a bag of dice in his bag. mostly because you never really know when you're going to need to roll for initiative. I think I heard a cool name for this type of research and I dont think I can steal it, but it was roll for prejudice and i thought that was wicked...

Mind Map

Comments

  1. Rutea AssefaApril 1, 2019 at 3:20 PM

    Hi Andrew,
    It has come to my understanding that you plan to argue that different types of creatures are racist. I think your idea is great just beaus this could be a yes or no answer. You should write a couple pages of how it could be seen as raciest and the other coupe pages on how it's just what it is. If you want to, you can apply this into a real life situation ( if you don't have enough words to share) as an example or something.
    Ruth

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Roll for Surveys, and Don't Forget Your Intelligence Modifier.

Image
  So, before spring break, our teacher (professor? just Katherine?) told us we should think about field research. I thought about it and I think the best kind of field research (on top of my weekly games, which you could probably call observation by immersion...) would be a survey. I would hand it to friends that I game with and around hobby and game shops. It would look something like this:   Hello friend and gamer. We have a survey for you today. It is entirely anonymous, so please try to give us your most honest answers.   Do you play Dungeons & Dragons?  Yes [  ]     No [  ] If you answered No, you're already done, otherwise continue on.   What edition? __________   What is your gender?  Male [  ]    Female [  ] Other [  ]__________   What is your race?  White [  ]    Asian [  ]    African American [  ]  ...
Read more

Sources (A Comprehensive List of EVERYTHING I Looked At)

  Clements, P. J. (2015).  Roll to save vs. prejudice: Race in dungeons & dragons  (Order No. 1605773). Available from Ethnic NewsWatch; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I. (1752236031). Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/docview/1752236031?accountid=14506 Crawford, Jeremy, et al. Player's Handbook, 5th Edition. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast LLC, 2014; 2014.   Garcia , Antero “ Privilege, Power, and Dungeons & Dragons: How Systems Shape Racial and Gender Identities in Tabletop Role-Playing Games”,   Mind, Culture, and Activity , 2017,   24:3,   232-246,   DOI:  10.1080/10749039.2017.1293691   Gilsdorf, Ethan. “Why Dungeons & Dragons Is Good for You (In Real Life) | Ethan Gilsdorf | TEDxPiscataquaRiver.”  TEDx Talks , YouTube, 21 May 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=6PaHJqpQnyw .   Gygax, Gary. "Players Handbook (Advanced Dungeons & ...
Read more

It's not Just About a Game. It's About a Story

  Contextually, this may be all over the place, but it's all about how games are biased in their own ways and how we can learn about those biases by learning the game.   "[...] understanding the foundational depictions of race, gender, and power in a nondigital gaming system highlights how cultural-historical approaches to understanding learning within systems must begin with an understanding of the implicit biases of these systems" (Garcia, para 5).   "Considering their creation by individuals, biases and inherent inequalities are both consciously and unconsciously embedded within systems" (para 11).   D&D is " a fantasy game of role playing which relies upon the imagination of participants, for it is certainly make-believe, yet it is so interesting, so challenging, so mind-unleashing that it comes near reality” (Gygax, 7).   "Regardless of which edition of the game is explored, the fundamentals of how to play D&D still revolve around the ...
Read more