# D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer)) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** rpg-dnd-wargames\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-got-woke-and-thats-good-because-you-should-have-all-been-playing-that-way-or-not-if-you-didnt-prefer/933114 "2021-02-17T10:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 595
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> [@RickJay](#): > > I’ve no idea what race or ethnicity that is supposed to be representative of. I haven’t looked much at the 1980s version of Spelljammer (D&D fantasy spacefaring) or at the new version, but that appears to be a member of the Hadozee species. They look very similar to the Yazirians from TSR’s old science fiction game, Star Frontiers (which I _have_ played), and I think are supposed to be a fantasy version of that species. I know nothing about Hadozee culture. In Star Frontiers, the Yazirians were the smartest of the playable sentient alien races. Spelljammer should have left them simply as smart (fantasy) space-faring aliens. I won’t be surprised if they revert to whatever the 1980s backstory was for the Hadozee, now that their weird slave-race version has sparked backlash. In the 1980s, the Hadozee were monsters, not a playable race, > **[Yazirian](https://starfrontiers.fandom.com/wiki/Yazirian)** > > Yazirians are a space-faring sentient mammalian species which inhabits the worlds of the Frontier Sector. They are one of the four basic "PC Races" introduced in Alpha Dawn. Yazirians are tall, light-boned humanoids with furry manes around their... --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-got-woke-and-thats-good-because-you-should-have-all-been-playing-that-way-or-not-if-you-didnt-prefer/933114)._