Search results

Every Darklord has a curse and a punishment. Sith has kenders. Even Azalin and Strahd send him support notes every once in a while...

The tweets don't seem to tell much. i see there's no list of the offensive points or anything like that, unless my work server is crippling my navigation. EDIT: I found this for example. "If you disagree, you have clearly never had a piece of pop culture harm you. Books like this take my...

Kenderloft. Domain of Dread.

I asked to tell me why he was upset, but i never said I had to agree with his opinion. I can have my opinion, too. I think that is written nowhere that a discussion may not end with each part standing on their positions, and end in good terms even if the argumentation is heated. Nevertheless I...

Yes, you're right, food changes and adapt. Like any other cultural appropriation, given time. Halloween is not the same as it was hundreds of years ago. From a maximum of 10 years ago, due to the influence of American media, we have started to celebrate it in Italy, too (before the 90s it was...

Believe it or not, but i was close to have them in a setting once. Not literally Italian. They were more or less the analog of feudal Japan, with Japanese names and culture and samurai and ninja and things. oh, and I placed them West, BTW. But I planned a pseudo Italian medieval/renaissance...

I find upsetting that I'm guilty of at least 3 of these arguments...

The conversation gets more and more interesting. :) First, sorry for misplacing Mexico. You're absolutely right. Actually I wanted to just write "Latin America", but ended with a fancier but wrong term. Note taken. Regarding the rest, I admit I'm a bit puzzled. I don't get the references to...

Well, you followed my lead till here. Basically now you're saying that it's right if you took something from my culture, changed ingredients, recipe, almost everything except the name, but in this case it's right. Because you decided to. Yuo keep treating people that disagree with you like...

OK now I'm genuinoulsy curious and want to understand. Now, my take was absolutely made on the fly, i didn't want to target Mexico specifically, i just tossed the first meso-south American country that came to my mind, but let's follow the example for a minute if you will. Let's say I'm...

Are you implying that you know more about my culture than me? Consider me your "Italian cultural consultant".

Stereotypes aren't bad. That's something that you say but not everyone agree. Stereotypes work for a reason. They are ingrained in popular culture. Stereotypes might be boring, but are not automatically offensive. If they are not offensive, what's the problem? Your comment, anyway, confirms...

I looked it up. and I can assure alfredo sauce as known in america has little to do with the original. ;)

Why not? i still see no evil in a work of fiction where there's a nation that seems Mexico but has lama riding people throwing bolas and practicing capoeira. It's fantasy. And from what I recall, that's not even what OA was. It had different nations in a sort of continent, each of those...

I'd buy that too! To be honest i've always been more intersted in absurd and exotic settings over the most standard (give me Dark Sun and Eberron over the Realms all the time). I'm thinking about opening another thread where we can share the most completely far-fetched off the head twisted...

Ok, so we basically agree. And I'm quite sure this is the workflow that will be followed by Wotc in the future. If it's not accuracy the issue here, then, not having the books here to check, what fails me to see is where in the 1E OA the unsensitive if not oltrageous stuff. I'd like to kindly...

I have no problems with a warning attached to the PDF. They already do it for movies after all. I recognize in this particular moment it's the best option. What i'm opposed to is: 1) the notion that a game setting or any fantasy work must be historically or culturally accurate. It's fantasy...

Absolutely

So it's just a matter of popularuty of the setting?

Not true. In italy, at least, where BECMI was the first translated and successful, rule set (but from what I remember it's not the only country where the breakthtough of D&D passed through BECMI), it's still regarded by a very large number of player as "the" setting. So you start from a false...