In D&D as played by middle-school adolescents, maybe.

But my D&D has had those subtle shades for decades now. Nor am I alone in that - for example, the entire Eberron campaign setting. Even being a complete delusional "wreck" requires neither Chaotic nor Evil alignments.

An example from literature: Don Quixote. Absolutely batshit insane (literally tilting at windmills) ... but also both LAwful and Good.

Another example, though tending more towards Chaotic Good: Baron Munchausen. Again, that may be how you play D&D.

It's not how everyone does. Indeed, there are large swathes of the D&D playerbase who do not portray Good or Evil in such overly-simplistic terms, with moustache-twirling villains and Dudley Do-Right heroes.

It probably varies depending on circumstances and the house rules at a particular table. In general, I prefer having shades of grey with regards to alignment too, but in D&D, morality is also objective in a lot of cases. Some acts and deeds are ALWAYS evil (such as the creation of undead), and some acts are ALWAYS good (such as showing mercy and sparing a foe, even an absolutely unrepentant villain who would likely go on to commit evil deeds unless prevented from doing so).

We literally just had a Malaysian MP calling publicly on Twitter and Facebook to wipe out millions of French. We had several beheadings right in the middle of Paris and Nice.

And now I'm coming to GoG and see some fools complaining about JK Rowling's comments or the depiction of Illithids(!) in an RPG(!) game :O

Where are your "antiracism" rallies against Mahathir Mohamed and Yusra Khogali, you wanna-be "antiracists"?

You guys simply are not "antiracist" at all. You love prejudice and racism as long as it is directed against Western countries. And you always only complain if you can blame it on Western countries.

If you would care about prejudice and racism, you would be out in the streets and protest against Mahathir Mohamed, Yusra Khogali, IS, Hamas and BDS. Instead, you complain about the depiction of Illithids(!) in a fantasy RPG(!)

You don't care about discrimination or racism at all. You only care if you can blame Western countries.

You can do all that, just write it carefully. You can have a 'nice' Illithid and an entire settlement of Tieflings. Just be careful that these species are meant to be rare and enigmatic.

One thing the writers of Larian obviously fail to realize is that such rare and enigmatic species need to be contrasted with more "common" folk. You need a human fishers' village and common soldiers to depict Tieflings as something cool and Illithids as something utterly alien.

If you start depicting them as everyday occurence, the feeling of awe or fear will quickly vanish.

You can do that. But please take a little care and invest a bit more time than just a few sentences.

For example, you could first hear *rumors* of that Illithid from a Duergar (not a Hobgoblin). And then, you could search for that Illithid. And then, he could act all sinister or funny - saying how your brain looks tasty or something.

But please don't just take two or three sentences to show an Illithid in the middle of a spore colony as just a "human with tentacles".

I'm not Malaysian, neither by citizenship nor ethnic heritage. I don't follow Malaysian MPs, therefor.

And being only human, with the same 24 hours in a day as anyone else, I don't have the time to follow and review the entirety of human communication on the internet - not even "just" that part of it associated with governments and celebrities.

Indeed, I have more than enough to do, just to keep up with events right here in my own country. .... dude, I am in and from a Western country. The United States of America. And yes, I've been bloody well fighting racism (and sexism, and homophobia, and xenophobia) here. For the last four years, it's been a full-time friggin' job. i AM NOT SUPERMAN, I can only do so much.