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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8955314" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I love Al-Qadim, and while it desperately needs an update from someone with roots in middle eastern/Arabic culture, I don’t think it’s unsalvageable. There’s a long YouTube series where a couple of Arabic gamers do exactly that, in fact. WotC won’t touch it in a million years though.</p><p></p><p>Greyhawk was never really my thing, but if they’re going to do it, the 50th anniversary is the time. Not sure how they make it stand out thematically from the other ‘default D&D’ settings in FR and exandria though.</p><p></p><p>There’s a couple of modernisations of Maztica floating around, one solid one on DMsGuild and one in an excellent extended thread on rpg.net. I don’t expect WotC to revisit it though. It has Al-Qadim’s problem of lacking cultural awareness, but unlike Al-Qadim, compounds that by not actually being very good, and suffering from the late-TSR disease where NPCs have already done everything interesting. I don’t think this one is fixable. I backed Heroes of Mystic America on Kickstarter and am hoping it’ll cover the same ground.</p><p></p><p>Of Mystara, I’m only really familiar with Red Steel, and given that setting (which, to be fair, I liked at the time) is basically a bunch of simplistic racial stereotypes with animal heads, WotC would probably prefer to pretend it never existed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8955314, member: 5948"] I love Al-Qadim, and while it desperately needs an update from someone with roots in middle eastern/Arabic culture, I don’t think it’s unsalvageable. There’s a long YouTube series where a couple of Arabic gamers do exactly that, in fact. WotC won’t touch it in a million years though. Greyhawk was never really my thing, but if they’re going to do it, the 50th anniversary is the time. Not sure how they make it stand out thematically from the other ‘default D&D’ settings in FR and exandria though. There’s a couple of modernisations of Maztica floating around, one solid one on DMsGuild and one in an excellent extended thread on rpg.net. I don’t expect WotC to revisit it though. It has Al-Qadim’s problem of lacking cultural awareness, but unlike Al-Qadim, compounds that by not actually being very good, and suffering from the late-TSR disease where NPCs have already done everything interesting. I don’t think this one is fixable. I backed Heroes of Mystic America on Kickstarter and am hoping it’ll cover the same ground. Of Mystara, I’m only really familiar with Red Steel, and given that setting (which, to be fair, I liked at the time) is basically a bunch of simplistic racial stereotypes with animal heads, WotC would probably prefer to pretend it never existed. [/QUOTE]
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