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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.

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Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons

Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons

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On this episode of Code Switch, we take a deep dive into Dungeons & Dragons, and what we find about racial stereotypes and colonialist supremacy is illuminating.
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On this episode of Code Switch, we take a deep dive into Dungeons &amp; Dragons, and what we find about racial stereotypes and colonialist supremacy is illuminating.
Thumy Phan for NPR

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.

This episode was edited by Dalia Mortada and Leah Donnella and produced by Jess Kung. It was engineered by Josh Newell.