When I was a poor Comp Sci student I couldn't afford Visual Studio so I got an IRC buddy to mail me a pirated copy of Visual Studio Enterprise Edition (gotta love rural dial-up internet.) This was around 2003 I believe.
Package never arrived, so I got him to re-send it. Got the discs a few weeks later.
Some time later I got a call from the RCMP -- Canadian version of the FBI. They wanted me to come to their detachment and answer some questions. When I showed up they took me into an interrogation room and told me they had seized the CD-Rs at the border, that software piracy was a big deal and he had been instructed by his superiors to "make an example out of someone."
They wanted to know who sent them, how I got in contact with him, how much I had paid him, and a lot of other questions. I was 19 and scared shitless. I had seen the warnings at the beginning of Hollywood movies, I should have asked for a lawyer but didn't.
I gave a statement and signed it. I told them that the guy had re-sent the discs and I received them, what should I do? They told me to bring the discs in, and I did.
Never heard from them again. No criminal record. I have no idea what happened behind the scenes, but I thank my lucky stars that I wasn't charged with copyright infringement.
I'm not trying to paint this as some kind of Les Miserables bread-loaf-stealing tragedy, but I am beyond ecstatic at the wealth of free software development tools available to anyone with a $400 laptop.
* Innate race-specific characteristics [1] steeped in centuries of colonialism
* An antiquated notion of intelligence (INT) that neglects other types of intelligence (emotional, linguistic, spatial, etc.)
* A strong focus on collecting currency (gold, silver, platinum) and hoarding items that exacerbate wealth inequality
* The illusion of a meritocracy where higher level characters have "earned" their rank and enjoy the benefits of easier gameplay
* A problematic reference to Adolf Hitler's charisma [2] that was claimed to be misquoted but was still stricken from further editions of the manual
The list goes on, but it should be easy to see how D&D can be a gateway to further radicalization and dehumanization.
[1] https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/23/21300653/dungeons-dragons-...
[2] http://www.theescapist.com/basic_gaming_faq.htm#hitler