Wizards of the Coastthe popular publisher of card games and role-playing games, removed some material from a recent manual deemed offensive by the D&D community .
The material in question was part of the recent set of Spelljammer: Adventure in Space and concerns the description of the Hadozee breed.
Wizards of the Coast apologized to fans for including such questionable content and has promised to remove the material from digital versions and future reprints of the set.
The apology comes through the official Dungeons & Dragons website via a post called “Statement on Hadozee“. The blog post reads as follows:
We wanted to acknowledge the presence of offensive material in our recent Spelljammer: Adventures in Space content. We have disappointed you, our players and our fans and are deeply sorry. Unfortunately, not all parts of the content related to Hadozee were properly checked before appearing in our most recent version.
The history of the Hadozee race tells that a wizard in command of a Spelljammer fleet arrived on the Hadozee homeworld called Yazir, captured the ancestors of the Hadozee and experimented on them with a magical elixir.
The magician’s elixir made them enlarge, stand and become aware of themselves as the magician he intended to form an army of augmented Hadozee and sell them as slaves. The point considered offensive by the fans is just that.
After the community protest for such parallels with real events related to slaveryWizards of the Coast apologized and said: “As we continue to learn and grow in every situation, we recognize that to live our values we must do better“.
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