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Gaming out race in Dungeons & Dragons

Gaming out race in Dungeons & Dragons

Code Switch · NPR

September 28, 202234m 12s

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Show Notes

Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular tabletop role-playing games of all time. But it has also helped cement some ideas about how we create and define race in fantasy — and in the tangible world. We take a deep dive into that game, and what we find about racial stereotypes and colonialist supremacy is illuminating.

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