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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7973343" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>Well, here is the first result of a 5 second Google Search.&nbsp; <a href="http://analoggamestudies.org/2016/01/how-dungeons-dragons-appropriated-the-orient/" target="_blank">How Dungeons &amp; Dragons Appropriated the Orient</a> I'm sorry, can you share where the ethnicity revealer is?&nbsp; I'm not seeing it.&nbsp; Or are you making assumptions?In the 1980s.&nbsp; When concepts of racial sensitivity were faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar different.&nbsp; For example, do you believe anyone would release a book called Oriental Adventures now?&nbsp; The article I mention above is a good read.&nbsp; I do not agree with everything in it (The comments on comeliness do not strike home for me - Ifound it to be the source of a lot more sexist and homophobic issues, but Isaw it go into wide use outside OA when it was released - YMMV), but a lot of it approaches the core problem - even with good intent and effort to try to be racially sensitive, there are few examples of cross cultural appropriation that are accepted widely - especially older attempts.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 7973343, member: 2629"] Well, here is the first result of a 5 second Google Search. [URL="http://analoggamestudies.org/2016/01/how-dungeons-dragons-appropriated-the-orient/"]How Dungeons & Dragons Appropriated the Orient[/URL] I'm sorry, can you share where the ethnicity revealer is? I'm not seeing it. Or are you making assumptions?In the 1980s. When concepts of racial sensitivity were faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar different. For example, do you believe anyone would release a book called Oriental Adventures now? The article I mention above is a good read. I do not agree with everything in it (The comments on comeliness do not strike home for me - Ifound it to be the source of a lot more sexist and homophobic issues, but Isaw it go into wide use outside OA when it was released - YMMV), but a lot of it approaches the core problem - even with good intent and effort to try to be racially sensitive, there are few examples of cross cultural appropriation that are accepted widely - especially older attempts. [/QUOTE]

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