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All of the Forgotten Realms were blown to smithereens at one point or another. The way Chult is depicted is the same in 2e and 3e before it was before it was blown to smithereens, pretty much the same in 4e when it was blown to smithereens by the spellplague, and in 5e after everything was...

Stuff like Nyambe: African Adventures and Spears of the Dawn have lots of African tribesmen and manages to avoid portraying them the same way Chult does. It's very much possible to get your fantasy pre-colonial Africa and not have it not be like Chult.

They did drop the ball when it came to the Vistani and many people called them out on it, and it wasn't just from the Romani community, although discrimination against them is not nearly as much a problem in the US as it is in Europe. And yes, D&D has long been criticized for chainmail...

The imagery that originally inspired the racial cliches of Chult are originally the result flat out racism. That they continue is not racism, but just general ignorance/lazyniess in this regard. A lot of people legitimately don't realize the racist origins of the stuff or how it might...

If I was following you correctly, your reasoning was that the limited state of African fantasy is the way it is now because of its limited status in academia and public education. It's hard to get actual information one would need to improve the state of African fantasy because there's...

Yaarel I feel pretty much the same about the Ethereal being the spirit world. That's why it's pretty much the *only* true plane in my homebrew setting. It's coterminous with the material plane and everything else exists as a kind of demiplane that's more a state of being/mind tied to a...

Oh, and the optional rules actions like climbing onto bigger creatures, cleaving through creatures, disarming, shoving aside, etc should have been in the PHB right alongside grappling, the help action, etc. That's exactly the kind of stuff people like to do to make combat more dynamic and also...

wrong thread... :blush:

This isn't how it works though. Sure, there's not as much information about pre-Colonial Africa compared to Eurasia, and it isn't a focus in schools, but that doesn't mean there isn't a ton of information out there. More than any casual reader could really consume if they had half a mind to...

Totally 100% agree with making Know Your Enemy a level 1st ability. I also think they could use another skill proficiency or two. There's no way they're going to compete with a Rogue in their chosen field thanks to Expertise, but they can be backup in another field. As far as making the...

The term "negro" is not generally considered racist by black people, no. I mean, using it in modern conversation will make you seem really old fashioned/out of touch, like referring to a sofa as a "divan" or pants as "britches" which makes it generally tolerable coming from older people as...

That's kind of the thing... they dropped the ball when it came to ToA/Chult. In the case of Chult, they didn't do a better job. In 4e, they kind of went backwards by destroying Chult's only indigenous "civilized" city and the neighboring nation during the spellplague. In 5e, they didn't...

I'm guessing he thinks black people consider it "okay" to call each other the n-word. Which is really an oversimplification of how it works.

It really wouldn't be. Not any more than dropping Zakara or Kara Tur would really muck up Forgotten Realms in a uniquely "culturally anachronistic" sense. Faerun, after all, features aesthetically Bronze age cultures alongside Medieval ones alongside Renaissance ones and more.

I've never heard of this referred to as "the 4 common common aspects of racism".

Major Muslim influence in North/West Africa started as early as the 11th century. Southern Asian trading with East Africa is even older, dating back to before the 1st century. The nature of cultural influence never seemed to reach the state it does in Nyambe though. Finally, the Nothern...

No, it's starting with the complaint and pointing out that D&D doesn't have a very good track record with this sort of thing before giving suggestion. The only "off putting" thing is that the complaint involves issues of how people of African descent get presented in D&D, and matters of race...

Only thing I know about it is from 3e where it's a place where they prefer technology and shun magic, has lots of Gnomes alongside worshipers of Gond. It's entry in the Player's guide suggests that they have their own language and speak the language of all the nearby lands- save Chult. I...

The article did not reference Nyambe, but it did provide a couple ideas for possible alternatives. One was described as an "African Atlantis", a "bleeding-edge technologist culture that architects magical machinery, who are black, or an ethnography of the cloud-dwelling black merchant princes...

I've mentioned it several times in this thread. Aside from being the only D&D supplement I know of that's been really explored a psuedo-African setting, it's also pretty well done. It's positive in that it's actually rather neutral in how it approaches an African fantasy setting, somewhat...