# Freakouts of the Right **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631 "2022-04-28T22:36:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 419
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/419 "2023-02-02T13:26:07Z")
Apparently “Woke D&D” was a controversy on the Right? > [@D & D got woke and that's good because you should have all been playing that way (or not if you didn't prefer))](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/933114/7): > > I’m not sure what “woke roleplaying” is, but yes, the generic alignment system in AD&D is pretty much worthless as a roleplaying aid. That is because Dungeons & Dragons grew out of medieval miniature wargaming, and whatever background mythology and culture it had was artlessly tacked to the system. It’s character racial profiles were all essentially hacked wholesale out of Tolkien, and the bestiaries (the Monster Manuals and Fiend Folio) were largely drawn from pre-medieval Greek, Norse, and C… Link goes to Stranger’s well-written denunciation of the controversy, not Manwich’s OP (a few posts above). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631)._