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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Myrdin Potter" data-source="post: 8032729" data-attributes="member: 6843593">So you dismiss the assertion that you can always do more and representative reading to improve your knowledge and yet some magical Asian setting can be written? Every single D&D book ever written can have the same type of complaints leveled against it are being used for OA. There are lots of thread of people outraged and offended about them. For things I like, I actually do make the effort.If I had not switched to Runequest right before that book came out and decided to use it, there would have been no one in my 10-12 player group (typical AD&D party size) that would have known about the offense part of the book. No Asians and other than me starting to read Musashi to get better at sword fighting, none of us were into Japanese or other Asian culture. We did have a Taiwanese guy join our group but by then I had switched to running Champions. He was pretty vocal and finishing medical school so was not dumb. I am sure he would have pointed out the bad Chinese tropes had I run it with him in the game.What exactly is the magic wand that you propose to wave to make it all better? Even OA had Japanese players that read the book and gave suggested edits to improve it and yet there are still complaints about how Japanese are portrayed in it. Even though nothing in the book says it is accurate or perfect or even a good representation of the actual culture.My friend in Shanghai was fine with it. He got decent bit parts in big movies as well as steady work in the TV shows and got to direct small film projects. Hard to make a steady living as an actor. And he liked living in Shanghai.</blockquote>

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