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man, what does this say about the history of D&D? :U okay fine, but I still stand by what I say: even asking the first time might be rude to some people. maybe you can reevaluate whether or not this should be typical? is there some huge incalculable loss to you if you can't? on a personal...

y'all mind if I take an idea straight out of the ol' anti-colonial ideas bag? "yeah sure go right on ahead!" okay cool -remote gnoll village was minding it's own business when one day they got caught up in somebody else's war. a group from a human army decided to loot the village, and while...

okay, that doesn't mean you should always ask this question with no tact. yes, and you conveniently miss out the part where they then get asked "where are you really from?" also it honestly doesn't matter, the context of gaming store and convention was given because that's the context of this...

Rakshasa, too. also do genies count?

mmm, I have been thinking about it, and I really don't think calling AD&D core books "Occidental Adventures" makes any sense. yes, D&D was meant to be medieval European by default, that much is obvious, but it's still meant to be setting agnostic. Oriental Adventures is a book where real world...

um. do you not understand how copyright law works, or......?

most of them weren't credited either. and that's fine. but there is a difference between "hey gamers, come try out our new game and tell us what you think!" and reaching out to a specific group of people to see what they think about the game. even focus testers get some sort of non-monetary...

this is a valid question, and like I also said it's not like Asian Americans are fully deprived of their heritage. that being said, anyone from neither group is necessarily an expert on their culture. I'm far (far...) from an expert on Korean culture, but I can at least speak on the Asian...

I mean QA testers get paid, but like I said in my post these guys got more credit than a QA tester could ever hope for 😭

ah, okay, that does make a lot more sense.

so uh, I don't want to be that guy (jk I totally love being that guy), but is there a reason why Maui is an Epic Monster and not a Mythological Figure? I don't want to sound critical, this whole project seems cool, I just feel like I'm missing some sort of context here.

no, I'm saying that's probably is what happened, they probably said "hey we have correspondence in Japan, maybe we can get some advice from Japanese people?" and then decided a playtest group was good enough. I know they were under time constraints, but getting a book translation done takes...

yeah, I know the book is the way it is partially due to how it was rushed, I get that. but apparently getting a bunch of expert opinions is what Gygax was going for? idk, if they couldn't get the resources they needed then they should've just scrapped everything but the part they knew was good...

okay, if you actually read what I posted you'd see that D&D was first published in Japanese in 1985, the same year OA came out. publishing a book in a foreign country in a foreign language usually involves a lot of correspondence, so it's not like they didn't have the means necessary to ask "hey...

sounds like the solution here is, unless you have a very good reason, to not ask people where they're from. yo, context. you're talking about a small town where as you said a lot of people themselves aren't from. OP is talking about how a lot of Asian people will get asked where they're from...

we don't really know that, and that's the problem. personally, given how the book is and the fact they did provide a bibliography, I'm inclined to believe if they were hired to do such a thing then their credit would have said something like To the Japanese players—Masataka Ohta, Akira Saito...

oh no, instead of fighting orc invaders you might have to fight....orc invaders, except maybe some of them aren't evil, and there's another orc tribe somewhere else just chillin' and making trade agreements with the city, how awful the future of D&D will be D:

I hope you understand that up until relatively recently a lot of western academics had.... interesting views on Asian subjects, and if that's the viewpoint the writers were going by it could very well skew this book a certain way. less personally I look up the book and it's from...1951. yeah...

bruh. I brought up the idea of Japanese players giving material to a Japanese magazine and having it translated for English release, of course that counts, put your hand down, jesus. that's fair, maybe "common" might have been a better way of saying it. case in point, if you google Akira Saito...