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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8473536" data-attributes="member: 7030755">The Into the Motherlands book isn't out yet, but afaik the setting is&nbsp; afrofuturist, a well-established subgenre of science fiction.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.artsy.net/gene/afrofuturism" target="_blank">Afrofuturism</a> is very much a diasporic literature and aesthetic, that is, it emerges from Black people in the Americas contending with their shared history of forced diaspora.&nbsp; It's not historical fiction, which is why afrofuturist stories take place in an imagined counterfactual future.&nbsp;&nbsp; So this critique is misplaced given what the authors' goals are (while also making assumptions about the authors' supposed lack of knowledge).Moreover, it was a fairly successful kickstarter, but still an indie rpg project, and as such has a much much lower profile than a book like Tomb of Annihilation (2017), a &quot;fantasy africa&quot; that was made with no Black authors or consultants and, despite some relatively <a href="https://kotaku.com/dungeons-dragons-stumbles-with-its-revision-of-the-ga-1819657235" target="_blank">minor criticism</a>, is still one of the most popular 5e adventures.&nbsp; The existence and success of this book belies any claim that there is censorship going on; meanwhile, it's not surprising that the aforementioned minor criticism will come with a wotc release, given that most rpg media focuses on wotc releases.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8473536, member: 7030755"] The Into the Motherlands book isn't out yet, but afaik the setting is afrofuturist, a well-established subgenre of science fiction. [URL='https://www.artsy.net/gene/afrofuturism']Afrofuturism[/URL] is very much a diasporic literature and aesthetic, that is, it emerges from Black people in the Americas contending with their shared history of forced diaspora. It's not historical fiction, which is why afrofuturist stories take place in an imagined counterfactual future. So this critique is misplaced given what the authors' goals are (while also making assumptions about the authors' supposed lack of knowledge). Moreover, it was a fairly successful kickstarter, but still an indie rpg project, and as such has a much much lower profile than a book like Tomb of Annihilation (2017), a "fantasy africa" that was made with no Black authors or consultants and, despite some relatively [URL='https://kotaku.com/dungeons-dragons-stumbles-with-its-revision-of-the-ga-1819657235']minor criticism[/URL], is still one of the most popular 5e adventures. The existence and success of this book belies any claim that there is censorship going on; meanwhile, it's not surprising that the aforementioned minor criticism will come with a wotc release, given that most rpg media focuses on wotc releases. [/QUOTE]

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