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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8326674" data-attributes="member: 7030755">It is plausible to say that relying on fairly inflexible tropes is a core part of fantasy as a genre, and that even fantasy that doesn't do this is subverting those generic expectations.&nbsp; I would need to think more about that.&nbsp; But classic fantasy and dnd come at western folklore from a broadly western perspective.&nbsp; When they approach the 'fantasy' of other cultures, they are also coming at it from a western perspective.&nbsp; This is basically the definition of orientalism, and it is important because it was and is key to reproducing colonial violence in the real world.&nbsp; And, whatever analogies Tolkein did or did not put in his fiction, it says something that his fiction is so easily read as <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-once-future-christendom/" target="_blank">conservative parable</a>.One thing wotc could do is hire people from diverse cultural backgrounds as writers.&nbsp; And when they do, respect their work without the need to <a href="https://pocgamer.com/2021/03/23/what-happened-writing-for-wizards-part-2/" target="_blank">edit back in fantasy racism</a>!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8326674, member: 7030755"] It is plausible to say that relying on fairly inflexible tropes is a core part of fantasy as a genre, and that even fantasy that doesn't do this is subverting those generic expectations. I would need to think more about that. But classic fantasy and dnd come at western folklore from a broadly western perspective. When they approach the 'fantasy' of other cultures, they are also coming at it from a western perspective. This is basically the definition of orientalism, and it is important because it was and is key to reproducing colonial violence in the real world. And, whatever analogies Tolkein did or did not put in his fiction, it says something that his fiction is so easily read as [URL='https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-once-future-christendom/']conservative parable[/URL]. One thing wotc could do is hire people from diverse cultural backgrounds as writers. And when they do, respect their work without the need to [URL='https://pocgamer.com/2021/03/23/what-happened-writing-for-wizards-part-2/']edit back in fantasy racism[/URL]! [/QUOTE]

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