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<blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 8031050" data-attributes="member: 59554"><p>what part of "you can still buy a print copy" do you not understand? that's not piracy. getting a pdf <em>is </em>piracy but has a very different context when that item isn't officially available anymore.</p><p></p><p>aw geez, you post all this and of course I only read it after I make a separate thread. I was simply curious about who these people were and shocked when I found out they weren't even content creators or expert consultants. and yeah, I know a lot of people in Asia didn't know about RPGs at the time, but also there were Asian people living in the US! we've been here for nearly two centuries, it's not like TSR couldn't get a hold of some Asian American gamers and ask how they felt about the book. even if there likely weren't many at the time it's hard to imagine no Asian American person would be interested enough in games to try out D&D. also given the nature of OA as a setting book you can get meaningful consultation from experts, Asian or otherwise, in America. but... yeah okay, that does shed a bit more light about what went down, and while I don't fully trust Gary to make OA completely unproblematic if he was the real driver in getting input from Asian gamers I could imagine his version would have been a little more nuanced than "Japaaaaaaaaaaaaaan". that being said it's still find it sad that this is the context where the few Asian people get credited in a D&D product.</p><p></p><p>also yeah, I know a little about the influence of D&D in Japan, in the new thread (with <strong>Expanded Content™ </strong>O: ) I do bring up stuff like Lodoss War and Final Fantasy, but I just want to know more, like what was that culture like at the time, and what important gaming people now were totally into D&D? the only western non-D&D RPG to have influence that I know of is apparently Call of Cthulhu. Gen Urobuchi and a few other writers got into Lovecraft because they played that game, but that's the extent of my knowledge lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panda-s1, post: 8031050, member: 59554"] what part of "you can still buy a print copy" do you not understand? that's not piracy. getting a pdf [I]is [/I]piracy but has a very different context when that item isn't officially available anymore. aw geez, you post all this and of course I only read it after I make a separate thread. I was simply curious about who these people were and shocked when I found out they weren't even content creators or expert consultants. and yeah, I know a lot of people in Asia didn't know about RPGs at the time, but also there were Asian people living in the US! we've been here for nearly two centuries, it's not like TSR couldn't get a hold of some Asian American gamers and ask how they felt about the book. even if there likely weren't many at the time it's hard to imagine no Asian American person would be interested enough in games to try out D&D. also given the nature of OA as a setting book you can get meaningful consultation from experts, Asian or otherwise, in America. but... yeah okay, that does shed a bit more light about what went down, and while I don't fully trust Gary to make OA completely unproblematic if he was the real driver in getting input from Asian gamers I could imagine his version would have been a little more nuanced than "Japaaaaaaaaaaaaaan". that being said it's still find it sad that this is the context where the few Asian people get credited in a D&D product. also yeah, I know a little about the influence of D&D in Japan, in the new thread (with [B]Expanded Content™ [/B]O: ) I do bring up stuff like Lodoss War and Final Fantasy, but I just want to know more, like what was that culture like at the time, and what important gaming people now were totally into D&D? the only western non-D&D RPG to have influence that I know of is apparently Call of Cthulhu. Gen Urobuchi and a few other writers got into Lovecraft because they played that game, but that's the extent of my knowledge lol. [/QUOTE]
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