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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nymrod" data-source="post: 8094001" data-attributes="member: 7026230">On Al-Qadim and Kara-Tur (and I guess Maztica), there is also an incentive to redeem formerly insensitive interpretations of certain cultures. Both of those settings also had a fairly loose timeline and thus canon was quite fluid and they could easily be changed. Settings that make use of diverse cultural paradigms that did those cultures justice usually receive good reviews. The answer to a call for diversity done with respect certainly should never be to simply refuse to touch those topics at all for fear you might insult someone; it's to make the effort and do the work so you can get them done properly (and maybe employ a few people who are from those cultures and grew up with their respective mythologies)Was Al-Qadim really that insensitive in the way it handled things though? The issue with Kara Tur is that it tried to cram dozens of major cultures of East Asia into one setting and didn't do that good a job at it. Al-qadim I felt did a much better and more respectful job at that.</blockquote>