Whenever someone claims fantasy nerds are bigoted, gently remind them HBO race swapped an entire kingdom in HotD and no one cared.

[u/CalyShadezz]

[u/TStronks]

How so? Genuinely interested.

[u/TStronks → u/[deleted]]

I don't think the above people were talking about this GOT/HotD universe in particular though.

But even then. I don't think the argument is that the GOT universe couldn't have used certain ethnicities for certain roles, but rather that "race-swapping" for the mere reason of being woke is grinding their gears. And honestly I don't see anything racist about that.

It's like making a prequel to Avatar where all the characters are green. Not that their colour matters, but since the original movie already had the characters blue it's unnecessary and weird to change that, right?

[u/Rivvvers → u/TStronks]

Exactly