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About the Asian contributors to Oriental Adventures, or Who even were these guys?
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<blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 8031053" data-attributes="member: 59554"><p>I mean if they did actually provide content I feel like they would have been credited as such, and not just with "critiquing and improving" (though I will say I am personally familiar with providing written content without receiving credit). as it's mentioned their inclusion was rushed, so even if they did give content it probably wasn't huge. </p><p></p><p>also I do want to reiterate my big issue here is how the majority of Asian contributors to D&D happened this one time in a book like OA. if we had to chart this on a time vs. contributor axis it apparently spikes early on and then just has a few blips from time to time. I mean maybe? I want to believe that's not the case.</p><p></p><p></p><p>okay, that is better than I thought it might be. I have to admit I should have emphasized that I was talking about writers contributing game materials (the talk about representation mostly centers around this, so much so I forgot people like artists count as contributors Orz). I don't want to diminish the work of artists or managers, but at the end of the day people are gonna use something because they thought the game material itself was interesting.</p><p></p><p>so like, are these people who worked on the Japanese version of D&D? I mean it does only make sense the Japanese RPG scene started after D&D inspired some of them to make their own games, but I could imagine the staff who worked on the early Japanese version of D&D might want to branch out on their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panda-s1, post: 8031053, member: 59554"] I mean if they did actually provide content I feel like they would have been credited as such, and not just with "critiquing and improving" (though I will say I am personally familiar with providing written content without receiving credit). as it's mentioned their inclusion was rushed, so even if they did give content it probably wasn't huge. also I do want to reiterate my big issue here is how the majority of Asian contributors to D&D happened this one time in a book like OA. if we had to chart this on a time vs. contributor axis it apparently spikes early on and then just has a few blips from time to time. I mean maybe? I want to believe that's not the case. okay, that is better than I thought it might be. I have to admit I should have emphasized that I was talking about writers contributing game materials (the talk about representation mostly centers around this, so much so I forgot people like artists count as contributors Orz). I don't want to diminish the work of artists or managers, but at the end of the day people are gonna use something because they thought the game material itself was interesting. so like, are these people who worked on the Japanese version of D&D? I mean it does only make sense the Japanese RPG scene started after D&D inspired some of them to make their own games, but I could imagine the staff who worked on the early Japanese version of D&D might want to branch out on their own. [/QUOTE]
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