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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8301651" data-attributes="member: 18">Noooooo.I know you probably think it's just &quot;Fantasy South America&quot;, because people talk about it that way, and almost no-one has read it (or read it in like 1993), but Maztica is a viciously racist setting. Like, viciously and unpleasantly - pro-imperialist/colonialist too! You can't &quot;give it a makeover&quot;. It's like giving the British Raj a &quot;makeover&quot; or something lol. It's easily the most racist setting D&amp;D has ever done (though IIRC Savage Coast is pretty bad too what with turning all the natives into evil monster-people but keeping trappings so you know they're still natives). Oriental Adventures doesn't remotely compare, because OA is basically positive, just uses outmoded stereotypes, the term &quot;oriental&quot; long after it was really okay to use it (even as a direction), and is solely about Japan (which is not a &quot;representative&quot; nation/culture of SE Asia, and was an imperial power with bad blood with China and Korea). It's like outright racism vs. talking to grandad about some &quot;exotic&quot; (his word) nation he admires.And an Asian setting will need them to cultivate y'know, actual Asian/Asian-American writers, which they are doing, but I'm not sure they're there yet. I expect it to happen eventually, but not soon immediately.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8301651, member: 18"] Noooooo. I know you probably think it's just "Fantasy South America", because people talk about it that way, and almost no-one has read it (or read it in like 1993), but Maztica is a [I]viciously racist[/I] setting. Like, viciously and unpleasantly - pro-imperialist/colonialist too! You can't "give it a makeover". It's like giving the British Raj a "makeover" or something lol. It's [I]easily[/I] the most racist setting D&D has ever done (though IIRC Savage Coast is pretty bad too what with turning all the natives into evil monster-people but keeping trappings so you know they're still natives). Oriental Adventures doesn't remotely compare, because OA is basically positive, just uses outmoded stereotypes, the term "oriental" long after it was really okay to use it (even as a direction), and is solely about Japan (which is not a "representative" nation/culture of SE Asia, and was an imperial power with bad blood with China and Korea). It's like outright racism vs. talking to grandad about some "exotic" (his word) nation he admires. And an Asian setting will need them to cultivate y'know, actual Asian/Asian-American writers, which they [I]are[/I] doing, but I'm not sure they're there yet. I expect it to happen eventually, but not soon immediately. [/QUOTE]

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