# D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 8:06am 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/933114/969 "2023-01-22T08:06:22Z")

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Just a bump because I didn’t want to continue hijacking the OGL thread, and this little bit of revisionist history really belongs here:

> [@DND OGL - Is anyone following this? Thoughts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dnd-ogl-is-anyone-following-this-thoughts/977886/218):
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> This is the same demonstrably false statement that was already debunked by two posters. Now sure, I am biased but Chronos is not. And you were told that it is a false statement, but you repeat it, in an attempt to hijack this thread with a grudge from another thread. In other words, you use unfair debating tactics. And then you wonder why I didn’t want to go back and continue debating you. And that last bit, of saying After you repeat a demonstrably false statement is more evidence of why I…

I’ll just point out that Chronos was on the same wrong side as DrDeth in this thread, so the suggestion there that he’s free of bias is a bit rich.

Other than that, everyone is capable of reading who here was arguing against racist caricatures, and who was arguing for them _not_ being racist caricatures at all.

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