D&D General Kara-Tur vs Rokugan

[jayoungr]

Can we please not go down a road that will get this thread locked? Maybe just agree that it's a word that (rightly or wrongly) bothers some people and not others, and get back to talking about the merits of various settings?

 

[Beleriphon]

Can we please not go down a road that will get this thread locked? Maybe just agree that it's a word that (rightly or wrongly) bothers some people and not others, and get back to talking about the merits of various settings?

That's probably a good idea. I'd expect that if WotC does produce a Far East inspired setting I expect they'll recycle Kara-Tur and call it some thing like Elminster's Travel Guide to Kara-Tur.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Look at the Orient Express route, it ran (runs? Is it still a thing?)

I don’t know if it’s still operational today, but I know it was still a thing back in the 1990s. I had a chance to go on it for a continuing legal education class, but couldn’t afford the price.

 

[Parmandur]

Neat; not where I come from.

British usage has little bearing on American corporate interests: Oriental Adventures is not a title that will be reused.

 

[gyor]

This seems inappropriate.

How, its just demographics, honestly there is nothing offensive about, and it's well know and discussed by Torontians.

 

[gyor]

That's probably a good idea. I'd expect that if WotC does produce a Far East inspired setting I expect they'll recycle Kara-Tur and call it some thing like Elminster's Travel Guide to Kara-Tur.

I think it will be like that as well, but not Elminister.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I think it will be like that as well, but not Elminister.

Fai Chen's Guide to Kara-Tur

 

[Psyzhran2357]

Fai Chen's Guide to Kara-Tur

Nah, they're probably gonna make it something that obliquely references it like: A report to the Royal Council of Evermeet on the nations of Shou Lung, Wa, Koryo, and the surrounding regions; and how best to counter their Spelljamming ambitions and curb their threat to Tel'Quessir interests.

 

[amethal]

I don’t know if it’s still operational today, but I know it was still a thing back in the 1990s. I had a chance to go on it for a continuing legal education class, but couldn’t afford the price.

The Orient Express is still running, and still very expensive.

 

[Desdichado]

I have no problem being associated with Indians and Pakistanis or Filipinos (though most North Americans do not think of Indians or Pakistanis as being Asian), but the usage of "Oriental" in North America in my view, is the equivalent of "Negro" when referring to other people, it's not necessarily an offensive term but it's a dated one.

Your view is wrong and designed to cause trouble. Please stop. It's offensive to run around pretending to be offended all of the time.