“Rhythm runs in the veins of the black people from the south of the Dominions.”
Beasts and Barbarians for Savage Worlds, p71.
Teleleli
James Hutchings' guide to the inhabitants, places, gods and monsters of the great city of Teleleli and the islands around.
Ohhhhhhh, boy. What is this? 1930s Amazing Stories or something?
That’s not even pulp racism; it’s old-lady racism.
It’s not even old-lady racism. Or racism. It’s a description of an imaginary fantasy world race.
Agreed. It’s just simply praising the cultural value of music for those people. And this is coming from a Latino.
I am Umberto Pignatelli, author of the Beasts & Barbarians book. I am very sorry you found offensive the phrase above. It is a pure depiction of a fictional word, which is inspired to old-30 Sword and Sorcery tales.
I am italian, and probably our culture lacks of sensibility on this topic.
I apologize again, clearing that there is no racism in my intentions (or in GRAmel).
Umberto
It is not racism – as you can check in B&B, people from Ivory Savannah (Ivory tribes) have black skin, as they are similar to the people from Africa. And as we are from Europe and we aren`t used to seeing such things in rasist way, we used the black people version – without any rasist implications. The description could be “Rhythm runs in the veins of the black skinned people from the south of the Dominions”, yes. Even native speakers and people from USA didn`t notice the version we used. We had strict anti-rasist policy in our book, so we were avoiding Howard`s stereotypes in our book.