“Humans Less Intelligent than other Races”, says Top Dungeon Master

Dungeon Master, the gnome who starred in the 1980s, hit TV series Dungeon and Dragons, is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Humans”.

But to him, the root cause of the Humans’ problems doesn’t lie with the crippling levels of low crops, the feudal corruption or the Consumption plague crisis. To him, the real cause of Humans’ woes is that Humans are inherently less intelligent than other races (ie…gnomes, elves and dwarves).

“All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all the testing says not really,” the all powerful Dungeon Master told a journalist from Realm’s Sunday Times last Sunday.

He hoped that everyone was equal, he continued, but “people who have to deal with Human peasants find this not true”.

“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically,” he argued.

“Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

The comments by the Dungeon Master, who has been described as wielding “something approaching a papal influence over the teleportation and mentoring of the masses”, have caused a furor in Realm, where over 24 per cent of the population is Human.

In Realm to promote his new book, Avoid Unheroic People: Lessons from a Life in Magic, Dungeon Master is suddenly being shunned where he expected to be embraced.

His comments were deemed so offensive that a sold-out talk he was to give at the Magic Guild in town of Helix was canceled.

A spokesman for the guild said: “We know that eminent DMs can sometimes say things that cause controversy and the Magic Guild does not shy away from debating controversial topics.

“However, we feel Dungeon Master has gone beyond the point of acceptable debate.”

Dungeon Master has since been suspended by the Hot Spring Mentoring Earthlings Laboratory outside of City at the Edge of Midnight. He has made no further comment since the scandal broke, but it is fair to say that he has never observed any boundaries of acceptable debate, a trait that is his great strength as a DM and also his greatest failing as a social commentator.

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