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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Essafah" data-source="post: 8327229" data-attributes="member: 16472">I have not played Tomb of Annihilation either.  I read brief glimpses of the adventure.  From what I saw it seems like the Chuultains were portrayed as a people with a thriving civilization and by civilization I mean stone/adobe buildings, a system of law, learned scribes, holy people, etc, and not just thatched huts like in the old Tarzan movies are something.  Given that I personally was not offended by anything I saw but I know some were and there will be  those always offended by something.  The main point is that from what little I saw (and again let me preface I have not ran or played the adventure) the Chuultains were depicted the same way many Black writers in the Sword & Soul genre such as Charles R. Saunders (rest in peace to the father of the genre), Milton Davis, and Balogun Ojatede have depicted certain pseudo African civilizations in some of their work. I think WOTC hiring cultural consultants for future products like was done in the portrayal of the a culture based on the Roma people after their depiction of Ravenloft is generally a good faith effort but I again I personally from what I saw was not offended but I would have to dig deeper into the product.As for the second part I again fully degree that not being trans or any phobic or ism is a good thing. I will also say that it is almost laughable to think WOTC/Hasbro actually considers this TSR a threat enough to be orchestrating a smear campaign.  If WOTC wanted to trademark the TSR name or acquire any of the IP like Star Frontiers because they thought it was profitable they would have reached out years ago to do so.</blockquote>

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