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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 8514998" data-attributes="member: 944">I agree though 1E OA actually went to the trouble of hiring Japanese scholars from Japan as consultants. That was very unusual for the time and lead within limits of expectations to a better  book.Still the culture ethnography and expectations of the US in the 1980's were   so different that it might as well another  country Assuming that any of the current political and or social concerns would have made a lick of sense to the vast majority of players who just wanted  a way to do Hong Kong Kung Fu movies Kurosowa Films and Ninja's in their D&D is absurd.No matter you do, someone will be offended so unless you are prepared to make the next D&D book a bank sheet of paper, played by one person in a white room the best thing to do is market research. Find out what the people who actually buy your stuff want  , not the Twitter and Reddit anger mobs but actual customers and give it to them. Its a balancing act to be sure , civility goes a long way as does mutual respect for all groups but without tradition, you also fail.This suggest while Courtly Warrior is probably  better name for the subclass than Samurai or Knight , maybe its OK to use one of these even if it does borrow a bit from one culture or another. Done respectfully and not to denigrate cultural appropriation heck cultural pilfering can make for good gaming and maybe even spur an interest in history or other topics.</blockquote>

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