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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8411128" data-attributes="member: 6879661">Of course it really isn’t as simple as that. Cultural appropriation is a complicated subject and covers a large range of issues. Many of which are totally benign and even to be encouraged.What you’re criticizing is cultural mis-appropriation. Where such ideas a misleading or dishonest. 30 years of large Japanese video game companies exporting the ideas of ninja and samurai to the western world has subsumed such ideas into the culture of every teenager that grew up with a play station.If you actually look at 5e’s handling of the samurai subclass they have removed all the honour-to-the-point-of-self-destruction from the class, along with the caste system, the need to follow a lord, expectations over weapon use, codes of ethics, alignment restrictions, gender bias etc. The 5e subclass really isn’t exotic at all.What is left is an educated fighter with a strong will. I’m struggling to see what the issue with that kind of subclass, as depicted in the 5e system. I would also see no issue with a rogue subclass that had a small amount of shadow magic and proficiency with additional tools, if it didn’t come with the expectation that they were the lowest of the low to be slain on sight. The 5e samurai can represent several different fighter tropes.There is a world of difference between 5e’s treatment of samurai the 1e oriental adventures books. They are fundamentally different approaches.</blockquote>

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