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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9350931" data-attributes="member: 11760">I know the current discourse is &quot;ooh, Mystara, so problematic,&quot; but as long as the book doesn't do a deep dive on Fire Mountain or the GAZ version of Thar, they can easily just say &quot;the many lands of the Known World often resemble cultures found on Earth&quot; and &quot;in the Hollow World, the immortals have sought to preserve ancient cultures on the verge of extinction.&quot;The problematic issues of the Atruaghin Clans and similar GAZ are only evident when one does a deep dive and sees that, yep, they didn't have the Internet when these were written and the idea of getting people from the cultures being emulated involved didn't occur to them and might have been challenging to do, even if it had.Then focus more closely on Karameikos and Glantri -- the two best-supported and not particularly problematic settings -- with shorter entries on each of the Known World nations, Alphatia, the Hollow World cultures, the Savage Coast nations (which probably needs a 21st century rename and/or a timeline update to a post-colonial framing) and we're good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9350931, member: 11760"] I know the current discourse is "ooh, Mystara, so problematic," but as long as the book doesn't do a deep dive on Fire Mountain or the GAZ version of Thar, they can easily just say "the many lands of the Known World often resemble cultures found on Earth" and "in the Hollow World, the immortals have sought to preserve ancient cultures on the verge of extinction." The problematic issues of the Atruaghin Clans and similar GAZ are only evident when one does a deep dive and sees that, yep, they didn't have the Internet when these were written and the idea of getting people from the cultures being emulated involved didn't occur to them and might have been challenging to do, even if it had. Then focus more closely on Karameikos and Glantri -- the two best-supported and not particularly problematic settings -- with shorter entries on each of the Known World nations, Alphatia, the Hollow World cultures, the Savage Coast nations (which probably needs a 21st century rename and/or a timeline update to a post-colonial framing) and we're good. [/QUOTE]

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