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Al-Qadim, Campaign Guide: Zakhara, and Cultural Sensitivity
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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8665086" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>Let's remember D&D wasn't designed to be true adaptation of the past. The female PCs couldn't enjoy enough freedom to be adventurers. And even in 5ed there are canon marriages of same gender. There are good reasons to explain because some things are totally omited or altered.</p><p></p><p>If you want a dog as a ranger companion or a wizard's familiar, you can do it in your al-Qadim even when in the Muslim culture the dogs as pets aren't wellcome.</p><p></p><p>To avoid potential troubles my advice is antagonist factions to be linked with monsters and supernatural factions. For example the extarminaars, a PC race from "Forgotten Realms: Champions of Ruins". They are perfect as an atagonist faction of a "bloodline of a Lovecraftian secret cult of a serpent deity". But accidentally they could be promoting the xenophobic trope of "an alien infiltrator among us wants to destroy us by means of actions of sabotage".</p><p></p><p>I suggest as antagonist faction a dragon cults whose members are spellcasters who want to "digievolution" to become "cobra dragons" (They appeared in Dragon magazine #146., and if somebody asks, we say it is an easter eggs honoring the archenemies of G.I.Joe).</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/12/4b/28124b630187f98b1b06257c5f74e7b9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 285px" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]251093[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Please, I don't want stupid jokes about womanizer bards, female island giants (with shapesifting powers) and "How I met your mother".</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]251092[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>* The lore of the updated al-Qadim should be ready for a possible future version of the sha'ir class (maybe designed to be a mixture of elementalist and summoner).</p><p> </p><p>* In my land "mameluco" can be used as an insult, even when today nobody remembers who were the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk" target="_blank">mamluks</a>, but maybe the mercenaries hired by Napoleon.</p><p></p><p>* Once I read the literature nobel V. S. Naipaul's book "India, a wounded civilitation". It was interesting.</p><p></p><p>* Almost off-topic but I have seen a comingsoon title "Aztec Batman. Clash of Empire" and this is one of the best examples of the type controversies we should avoid, because they promote tropes based in historical prejudices and they reanimate the propaganda war from previous ages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8665086, member: 6802378"] Let's remember D&D wasn't designed to be true adaptation of the past. The female PCs couldn't enjoy enough freedom to be adventurers. And even in 5ed there are canon marriages of same gender. There are good reasons to explain because some things are totally omited or altered. If you want a dog as a ranger companion or a wizard's familiar, you can do it in your al-Qadim even when in the Muslim culture the dogs as pets aren't wellcome. To avoid potential troubles my advice is antagonist factions to be linked with monsters and supernatural factions. For example the extarminaars, a PC race from "Forgotten Realms: Champions of Ruins". They are perfect as an atagonist faction of a "bloodline of a Lovecraftian secret cult of a serpent deity". But accidentally they could be promoting the xenophobic trope of "an alien infiltrator among us wants to destroy us by means of actions of sabotage". I suggest as antagonist faction a dragon cults whose members are spellcasters who want to "digievolution" to become "cobra dragons" (They appeared in Dragon magazine #146., and if somebody asks, we say it is an easter eggs honoring the archenemies of G.I.Joe). [IMG width="285px"]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/12/4b/28124b630187f98b1b06257c5f74e7b9.jpg[/IMG] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1655291717170.png"]251093[/ATTACH] Please, I don't want stupid jokes about womanizer bards, female island giants (with shapesifting powers) and "How I met your mother". [ATTACH type="full" alt="1655291623202.png"]251092[/ATTACH] * The lore of the updated al-Qadim should be ready for a possible future version of the sha'ir class (maybe designed to be a mixture of elementalist and summoner). * In my land "mameluco" can be used as an insult, even when today nobody remembers who were the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk']mamluks[/URL], but maybe the mercenaries hired by Napoleon. * Once I read the literature nobel V. S. Naipaul's book "India, a wounded civilitation". It was interesting. * Almost off-topic but I have seen a comingsoon title "Aztec Batman. Clash of Empire" and this is one of the best examples of the type controversies we should avoid, because they promote tropes based in historical prejudices and they reanimate the propaganda war from previous ages. [/QUOTE]
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