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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8094035" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Al Qadim wasn't particularly bad, it's just kind of pretty basic orientalism. It made an effort to do a good job, and has a sort of Islam-equivalent, acknowledging how fundamental that is to a lot of the cultures it is drawing from, but it's still a pretty Westernized take on this. I don't think it would be very difficult to find people to write a good modern take on the same material, which was still broadly appealing.</p><p></p><p>OA was weird because it's at least kind of a respectful treatment of Japanese mythology and history, but instead of being just applied to some "Mythic Japan"-equivalent, it's suggested to apply to all these East Asian-equivalent cultures, which was bizarre and not cool.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sure, but the default helm, which was pretty detailed, did require it and had some serious stuff preventing you from casting for 24 hours after using it and so on. Helms which used other methods were pretty much all either bad-guy stuff (sometimes only usuable by a bad-guy race), or treated as old-fashioned and possibly wasteful, like the kind that ate magic items, and even the straightforward "Pump" helm is treated as grotesque and goblinoid-specific.</p><p></p><p>My suspicion is that if the do bring SJ back the default for most spelljammers will no longer be the "wizard lockdown"-type helm, but something which any class could control, and probably with some kind of fuel or charge, because that can lead to interesting restrictions and encounters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8094035, member: 18"] Al Qadim wasn't particularly bad, it's just kind of pretty basic orientalism. It made an effort to do a good job, and has a sort of Islam-equivalent, acknowledging how fundamental that is to a lot of the cultures it is drawing from, but it's still a pretty Westernized take on this. I don't think it would be very difficult to find people to write a good modern take on the same material, which was still broadly appealing. OA was weird because it's at least kind of a respectful treatment of Japanese mythology and history, but instead of being just applied to some "Mythic Japan"-equivalent, it's suggested to apply to all these East Asian-equivalent cultures, which was bizarre and not cool. Sure, but the default helm, which was pretty detailed, did require it and had some serious stuff preventing you from casting for 24 hours after using it and so on. Helms which used other methods were pretty much all either bad-guy stuff (sometimes only usuable by a bad-guy race), or treated as old-fashioned and possibly wasteful, like the kind that ate magic items, and even the straightforward "Pump" helm is treated as grotesque and goblinoid-specific. My suspicion is that if the do bring SJ back the default for most spelljammers will no longer be the "wizard lockdown"-type helm, but something which any class could control, and probably with some kind of fuel or charge, because that can lead to interesting restrictions and encounters. [/QUOTE]
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