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<blockquote data-quote="GuyBoy" data-source="post: 8421469" data-attributes="member: 7031143">I think this misses the point of updating to reflect modern sensibilities...and I use the word update, not rewrite, advisedly. I love Greyhawk; for me, it perfectly answers the nostalgia of the 50th, is a tribute to the game’s history and is a wonderful opportunity to share that game’s history with the newer generation of players. It is the last point in particular that merits an update. D&amp;D and Greyhawk was written by middle-aged and slightly younger white guys in the USA of the mid 1970s. That’s ok. That’s history. It can’t be “re-written” as an event, but it can, and should, be updated as a product. It reflected a culture which included significant male dominance, chainmail bikinis and where non-white, non-heterosexual characters were pretty limited (please note, I’m not saying completely non-existent, so don’t use rebuttal by singular example). We can do better now, and if we can, we should. As a non-D&amp;D aside, the argument “we cannot rewrite history” is a pretty trite one. Certainly events happened, but interpretations of them are constantly being updated, and there have been lots of historians offering differing viewpoints for centuries. Herodotus, Gibbon, Taylor, William of Malmesbury, Fukuyama, Huntington etc all wrote and interpreted history. They didn’t all write the same thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GuyBoy, post: 8421469, member: 7031143"] I think this misses the point of updating to reflect modern sensibilities...and I use the word update, not rewrite, advisedly. I love Greyhawk; for me, it perfectly answers the nostalgia of the 50th, is a tribute to the game’s history and is a wonderful opportunity to share that game’s history with the newer generation of players. It is the last point in particular that merits an update. D&D and Greyhawk was written by middle-aged and slightly younger white guys in the USA of the mid 1970s. That’s ok. That’s history. It can’t be “re-written” as an event, but it can, and should, be updated as a product. It reflected a culture which included significant male dominance, chainmail bikinis and where non-white, non-heterosexual characters were pretty limited (please note, I’m not saying completely non-existent, so don’t use rebuttal by singular example). We can do better now, and if we can, we should. As a non-D&D aside, the argument “we cannot rewrite history” is a pretty trite one. Certainly events happened, but interpretations of them are constantly being updated, and there have been lots of historians offering differing viewpoints for centuries. Herodotus, Gibbon, Taylor, William of Malmesbury, Fukuyama, Huntington etc all wrote and interpreted history. They didn’t all write the same thing. [/QUOTE]

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