Gaming out race in Dungeons & Dragons
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As a kid, Aaron was drawn to playing human characters because he wanted to feel normal. In older versions of D&D, if your character wasn't human, the numbers given to their traits and stats were defined against the zero point of humans. "A lot of the messy racial logic that we saw in our game is more of a shadow of how straight up racist the game could be"
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