Sometimes in spite of the complete absence of explicit game mechanics you can 100% tell that the… (opens in new tab)

Dungeons & Dragons the author is picturing when they imagine a perfectly generic RPG.Flip to the section on elves, maybe you can tell by how many well-intentioned reparative racial subcategories there are. Sometimes in spite of the complete absence of explicit game mechanics you can 100% tell that the sourcebook in question is situated in a milieu in which “elf” is a character class.