D&D 5E WotC to increase releases per year?

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Yeah, but there's a difference between "Japanese person" and "Japanese person who has actually studied their culture's history."

So what? Nobody requires people to know much about the cultural history of England (or anywhere else in Europe) before they write for the Sword Coast, do they? What they've soaked up by growing up in America is fine.

So, as Wizards of the Coast, you contract with, say, Group SNE (located in Japan, owned and staffed by Japanese people, creators of both of original RPGs and of Japanese translations of English ones) to do a version of Kozakura and Wa that is actually gameable, rather than being (like the Kara-Tur boxed set) a regurgitated history book plus D&D game references.

Off the top of my head I don't know a Chinese or Korean company to contract with, but I'm sure Taiwan has people who could be hired to revise Shou Lung and T'u Lung, and there's South Koreans who could provide a revised Koryo.

 

[teitan]

I mean thank god because the Sword Coast is similar to Mainland Europe from France up to Scandinavia than England. That's Cormyr and the Dalelands.

 

[JEB]

Starter Sets centered around specific campaign settings could be pretty neat, actually. An Eberron boxed set, a Ravenloft boxed set, etc. I certainly could see those being more appealing to the casual fan than a $50 hardcover. (It also doesn't hurt that there's a potential retro appeal, for folks who grew up in the 2e era and remember those campaign setting boxed sets.)

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So what? Nobody requires people to know much about the cultural history of England (or anywhere else in Europe) before they write for the Sword Coast, do they? What they've soaked up by growing up in America is fine.

The Sword Coast always has been fantasy west coast America, why would people study English history for it?

 

[Zardnaar]

The Sword Coast always has been fantasy west coast America, why would people study English history for it?

What they're saying is the Americans bastardized European cultures.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

What they're saying is the Americans bastardized European cultures.

Not really. There is nothing specifically European about the Sword Coast. Americans based it on their own culture (and geography and wildlife).

Other parts of the Forgotten Realms picked up some European stuff - Celtic in the Moonshae's, French in Cormyr etc, but the Sword Coast is as American as Colonel Sanders.

 

[teitan]

Not really. There is nothing specifically European about the Sword Coast. Americans based it on their own culture (and geography and wildlife).

Other parts of the Forgotten Realms picked up some European stuff - Celtic in the Moonshae's, French in Cormyr etc, but the Sword Coast is as American as Colonel Sanders.

Canadians.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Canadians.

Last time I looked at an atlas Canada was part of North America.

 

[Reynard]

Starter Sets centered around specific campaign settings could be pretty neat, actually. An Eberron boxed set, a Ravenloft boxed set, etc. I certainly could see those being more appealing to the casual fan than a $50 hardcover. (It also doesn't hurt that there's a potential retro appeal, for folks who grew up in the 2e era and remember those campaign setting boxed sets.)

This right here. People still think "Lord of the RIngs" when they think D&D, but that's not really true. Having a couple different sub-genre introductions is not a bad idea. It would be simple to translate the early parts of CoS to an introductory boxed set, and I think an Eberron boxed set would sell pretty well with magitech and steam punk inspired elements front and center. And WotC could do worse than to put out a set with an Avatar/Dragon Prince vibe.

 

[embee]

What they're saying is the Americans bastardized European cultures.

We Yanks are nothing if not bastards, every one of us.