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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8507468" data-attributes="member: 85555">I wasn’t using the D&amp;D system (just to be clear).My feeling on research is it can be good but even then I think if someone is just inspired by a superficial aesthetic and wants to borrow that, that can create an interesting new thing as well. I do think you don’t want to be disrespectful of a culture (though I find what constitutes respectful is not very disagreed on these days: but I would never for example be deliberately insulting or belittling). Sometimes though I think we fetishized ‘authentic’. Authenticity can be good. A game or setting that models a culture in an authentic and accurate way is definitely something I often want. At the same time I don’t think authenticity should be a requirement of design or equated with respect. If you are only using things authentically and in their original context, you won’t do anything new with them (I,e. Blues never becomes rock, rock never becomes hard rock or heavy metal). So I think you need both approaches</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8507468, member: 85555"] I wasn’t using the D&D system (just to be clear). My feeling on research is it can be good but even then I think if someone is just inspired by a superficial aesthetic and wants to borrow that, that can create an interesting new thing as well. I do think you don’t want to be disrespectful of a culture (though I find what constitutes respectful is not very disagreed on these days: but I would never for example be deliberately insulting or belittling). Sometimes though I think we fetishized ‘authentic’. Authenticity can be good. A game or setting that models a culture in an authentic and accurate way is definitely something I often want. At the same time I don’t think authenticity should be a requirement of design or equated with respect. If you are only using things authentically and in their original context, you won’t do anything new with them (I,e. Blues never becomes rock, rock never becomes hard rock or heavy metal). So I think you need both approaches [/QUOTE]

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