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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8913624" data-attributes="member: 5948">I'm speculating, but I think the difference was that during the development of Brilliant East, those 'Asians read Oriental Adventures' videos went up on Youtube, and got a hell of a lot of views and a hell of a lot of attention, and there was the whole debate with Panzerlion and Candlekeep Adventures, and KP had a a moment of introspection and a look at their pipeline and realised that Brilliant East was being majority-written by white guys, and backed away.  Southlands came out before all that conversation happened, and of course was a port of the already-existing Southlands setting for Pathfinder 1, so maybe got a bit more of a pass.  Even so, they very deliberately brought in a couple of developers with Middle Eastern/African backgrounds for the 5e Southlands project.A brand new Brilliant East project  with minimal or peripheral involvement from Asian writers in the 2020ish environment would have landed like a lead balloon.</blockquote>