The Role of Race in D&D

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. Wizards of the Coast released and immediately had to apologize for a race of ex slave monkey people. Despite these like really, really egregious examples, I mean players at the table are the ones who decide how the game actually goes. But another but is that you might have a really particular image of who's sitting around a D&D table - especially if you're going off pop culture.