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Rolling the Dice on Race in Dungeons & Dragons | Code Switch

Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular tabletop role-playing games of all time. But it has also helped cement some ideas about how we create and define race in fantasy — and in the tangible world.

This week we revisit a deep dive into that game. What we find about racial stereotypes and colonialist supremacy is illuminating.