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

With a big dollop of Mad Max.

Let face it, at the time, it’s not like most of us got much in the way of education about the fertile crescent region. I’m not arguing that Dark Sun was just a fantasy version of Sumer, just that the influence is there.

You can always throw the DM off by the paladin quitting their life of adventuring to raise these now orphaned goblins.

“I am just playing how my character would!”, well duh, you are playing like a jerk as you make your character a jerk. Dont do that.

Oh, hi, @DrDeth. You got that cite for the squirrel thing, yet?

An update on the “Anti-Woke” NuTSR led by Gygax’s son:

So much for “Go woke, go broke”

NuTSR has been a dumpster fire from beginning to end.