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<blockquote data-quote="Scars Unseen" data-source="post: 8507284" data-attributes="member: 10196">
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<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Can be done, but risks disassociating the result from the inspiration.&nbsp; Which sometimes happens anyway, especially in a game with as many iterations as D&amp;D.&nbsp; E.g. how much of the myth of Perseus survives in the entry for medusa or gorgon? </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">This one I kind of mostly reject.&nbsp; I think there could be some edge cases where real world mistreatment of a subject is too prominent for a fictional analogue not to be tainted by association, but I feel that it would have to pretty egregious to make it unsalvageable.&nbsp; Overall I reject the notion that sharing ideas and stories - even imperfectly - across cultures is a bad thing.&nbsp; Even mythology is often cross-pollinated, as seen by elements of Sumerian mythology informing mythologies of other Mesopotamian cultures.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">This one I think has to be a decision made on a setting level, not an overall game level, certainly not a gaming culture level.&nbsp; To bring up the earlier example, I don't think that the hobby would be enriched overall if every setting had to have a swords and sandals area in order for a medusa to appear.&nbsp; In fact, overused, I could see this doing the opposite of positively addressing your concerns, as it could just as likely result in a collection of cultural theme parks as it could a respectful treatment of cultural origins.</li>
</ol>I do like the earlier suggestion made in the thread to include references to originating literature where possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scars Unseen, post: 8507284, member: 10196"] [LIST=1] [*][I]Can[/I] be done, but risks disassociating the result from the inspiration. Which sometimes happens anyway, especially in a game with as many iterations as D&D. E.g. how much of the myth of Perseus survives in the entry for medusa or gorgon? [*]This one I kind of mostly reject. I think there could be some edge cases where real world mistreatment of a subject is too prominent for a fictional analogue not to be tainted by association, but I feel that it would have to pretty egregious to make it unsalvageable. Overall I reject the notion that sharing ideas and stories - even imperfectly - across cultures is a bad thing. Even mythology is often cross-pollinated, as seen by elements of Sumerian mythology informing mythologies of other Mesopotamian cultures. [*]This one I think has to be a decision made on a setting level, not an overall game level, certainly not a gaming [I]culture[/I] level. To bring up the earlier example, I don't think that the hobby would be enriched overall if every setting had to have a swords and sandals area in order for a medusa to appear. In fact, overused, I could see this doing the opposite of positively addressing your concerns, as it could just as likely result in a collection of cultural theme parks as it could a respectful treatment of cultural origins. [/LIST] I do like the earlier suggestion made in the thread to include references to originating literature where possible. [/QUOTE]

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