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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8507386" data-attributes="member: 7635">But that's the thing: D&amp;D is a kitchen sink game that liberally stole from everything and anything. This is the game with Celtic priests adventuring with Shaolin monks. It's appeal is the wide selection of myths and legends used to make the game. It is a melting pot in the clearest sense of the term.What OP is suggesting we unmix the pot. To take the monsters (and let's be frank, all the culture elements) from the various cultures and either strip them of all cultural identity OR put them back into gaming material related to that culture. Keep it all with it's origin culture and only use it when the culture is present. Everything back into it's box. This is the appropriation vs fusion argument dressed in gaming clothes. If it's ok for a non-Japanese woman to wear a kimono or similar debates. So I say let's just break the kitchen sink up entirely and return the monsters, races, classes, etc. back to thier native cultures in unique cultural sourcebooks. Have a currated selection of things in the Core Rules (stuff that doesn't have overt cultural identity) and then put out an Egyptian book, a Norse book, a China book, an Arabia book, etc. that has all the appropriate cultural stuff in context. And WotC would make a fortune spreading out all the stuff they previously put in the three core books across several setting books. Make sure you get the Kamigawa book in 2023, it's going to have the samurai subclass and oni returning!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8507386, member: 7635"] But that's the thing: D&D is a kitchen sink game that liberally stole from everything and anything. This is the game with Celtic priests adventuring with Shaolin monks. It's appeal is the wide selection of myths and legends used to make the game. It is a melting pot in the clearest sense of the term. What OP is suggesting we unmix the pot. To take the monsters (and let's be frank, all the culture elements) from the various cultures and either strip them of all cultural identity OR put them back into gaming material related to that culture. Keep it all with it's origin culture and only use it when the culture is present. Everything back into it's box. This is the appropriation vs fusion argument dressed in gaming clothes. If it's ok for a non-Japanese woman to wear a kimono or similar debates. So I say let's just break the kitchen sink up entirely and return the monsters, races, classes, etc. back to thier native cultures in unique cultural sourcebooks. Have a currated selection of things in the Core Rules (stuff that doesn't have overt cultural identity) and then put out an Egyptian book, a Norse book, a China book, an Arabia book, etc. that has all the appropriate cultural stuff in context. And WotC would make a fortune spreading out all the stuff they previously put in the three core books across several setting books. Make sure you get the Kamigawa book in 2023, it's going to have the samurai subclass and oni returning! [/QUOTE]

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