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<blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 8027136" data-attributes="member: 55178"><p>Raising my hand as an American mutt with a double handful of different Asian heritages.</p><p></p><p>Oriental is an outdated word, with a lot of stereotype baggage, that came into use as a means describing a place and a people exotically. It is generally considered acceptable to be used as a descriptor of a style (Oriental Rug) but as is often the case when people don't understand the intricacies of rules like this, the knee jerk reaction is to lash out when the word is used in any form.</p><p></p><p>In my experience, it feels like the people who are upset by this word are overwhelmingly not Asian. <em>shrug</em> To me it doesn't really matter. If the word legitimately makes people uncomfortable, it makes them uncomfortable and I'll do everything I can to fix that. At the same time, I think that there are WAY bigger problems that I wish this energy were being used to successfully attack and dismantle. </p><p></p><p>I think that, more than anything, the problem with any company attempting to reinvigorate, and revise Oriental Adventures is that the project, pretty much out of the gate, will be attempting to compile a bunch of misunderstood stereotypes and mythologies from a couple dozen different Asian cultures and just blend them all together. That is 100% not what a new supplement with modern day sensibilities should be. A <strong>LOT </strong>of work will need to go into a project like this to do it properly, and almost any path for D&D feels like it should be, as others have pointed out, a whole cloth invention that maybe has a touch of inspiration from a single culture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nytmare, post: 8027136, member: 55178"] Raising my hand as an American mutt with a double handful of different Asian heritages. Oriental is an outdated word, with a lot of stereotype baggage, that came into use as a means describing a place and a people exotically. It is generally considered acceptable to be used as a descriptor of a style (Oriental Rug) but as is often the case when people don't understand the intricacies of rules like this, the knee jerk reaction is to lash out when the word is used in any form. In my experience, it feels like the people who are upset by this word are overwhelmingly not Asian. [I]shrug[/I] To me it doesn't really matter. If the word legitimately makes people uncomfortable, it makes them uncomfortable and I'll do everything I can to fix that. At the same time, I think that there are WAY bigger problems that I wish this energy were being used to successfully attack and dismantle. I think that, more than anything, the problem with any company attempting to reinvigorate, and revise Oriental Adventures is that the project, pretty much out of the gate, will be attempting to compile a bunch of misunderstood stereotypes and mythologies from a couple dozen different Asian cultures and just blend them all together. That is 100% not what a new supplement with modern day sensibilities should be. A [B]LOT [/B]of work[B] [/B]will need to go into a project like this to do it properly, and almost any path for D&D feels like it should be, as others have pointed out, a whole cloth invention that maybe has a touch of inspiration from a single culture. [/QUOTE]
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