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<blockquote data-quote="Panda-s1" data-source="post: 8029281" data-attributes="member: 59554"><p>man I feel like some people are deliberately ignoring the original issue of WotC profiting off OA after saying they're gonna be more sensitive in the future. I can't say "my restaurant is now vegetarian!" and still serve bacon just because a few customers want it.</p><p></p><p>you can give away a product without "promoting" it, and bringing it up this way would be seen as a PR move to address this issue. yes, people are gonna start downloading it, I even might myself. but as you said virtually no one is running Kara-Tur these days, and it would remain largely a curiosity and historical piece, and again WotC wouldn't make any money off this. personally I feel like WotC should just do this with at least all pre-2e material, but that's a conversation for another time.</p><p></p><p>I'm not against the idea, I think it would be neat to see an Asian inspired campaign setting if it were well done. but to do so in response to the controversy surrounding the book would honestly feel like tokenism at worst. I don't think you need it to be entirely Asian-written either, but if they did do that would the authors be brought in and thrown out after the book came out?</p><p></p><p>WotC already dropped the ball on Chult, and making this hypothetical well done setting would show that they're serious, sure, but how they do it is probably just as important as the content they put out.</p><p></p><p>also while we're here, I've always felt like 3rd ed. OA was the more problematic one, at least in terms of execution. at least AD&D OA was attempting to make a fully realized fantasy Asia, 3rd ed. was just WotC being like "oh hey this new-fangled franchise we just bought is Oriental, let's just make a D&D book about it and slap the Oriental Adventures name on it!" I still remember my younger self (who had yet to play D&D or any tabletop rpg) finding that book at barnes and noble and thinking "wtf why is this just a bunch of samurai and Japanese stuff??"</p><p></p><p>also, tangentially related, but am I the only one who felt like Pathfinder dropped the ball completely with their take on the "Asian" part of Golarion?</p><p></p><p>yeah, no, "people are too easily offended!" is not a valid excuse, sorry.</p><p></p><p></p><p>okay, great, Faerun has one (1) Ireland in it, and Ravenloft took some inspiration from France. maybe if I wait long enough someone will tell me that Khorvaire is actually based on interwar period Europe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Panda-s1, post: 8029281, member: 59554"] man I feel like some people are deliberately ignoring the original issue of WotC profiting off OA after saying they're gonna be more sensitive in the future. I can't say "my restaurant is now vegetarian!" and still serve bacon just because a few customers want it. you can give away a product without "promoting" it, and bringing it up this way would be seen as a PR move to address this issue. yes, people are gonna start downloading it, I even might myself. but as you said virtually no one is running Kara-Tur these days, and it would remain largely a curiosity and historical piece, and again WotC wouldn't make any money off this. personally I feel like WotC should just do this with at least all pre-2e material, but that's a conversation for another time. I'm not against the idea, I think it would be neat to see an Asian inspired campaign setting if it were well done. but to do so in response to the controversy surrounding the book would honestly feel like tokenism at worst. I don't think you need it to be entirely Asian-written either, but if they did do that would the authors be brought in and thrown out after the book came out? WotC already dropped the ball on Chult, and making this hypothetical well done setting would show that they're serious, sure, but how they do it is probably just as important as the content they put out. also while we're here, I've always felt like 3rd ed. OA was the more problematic one, at least in terms of execution. at least AD&D OA was attempting to make a fully realized fantasy Asia, 3rd ed. was just WotC being like "oh hey this new-fangled franchise we just bought is Oriental, let's just make a D&D book about it and slap the Oriental Adventures name on it!" I still remember my younger self (who had yet to play D&D or any tabletop rpg) finding that book at barnes and noble and thinking "wtf why is this just a bunch of samurai and Japanese stuff??" also, tangentially related, but am I the only one who felt like Pathfinder dropped the ball completely with their take on the "Asian" part of Golarion? yeah, no, "people are too easily offended!" is not a valid excuse, sorry. okay, great, Faerun has one (1) Ireland in it, and Ravenloft took some inspiration from France. maybe if I wait long enough someone will tell me that Khorvaire is actually based on interwar period Europe. [/QUOTE]
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