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<blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8462236" data-attributes="member: 6761960">It also depends whether we're talking about making a setting for my home game or for the public. I once created a mining planet set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe where the main local culture was based on the Empire of Abyssinia, for a campaign using a hack of Blades in the Dark (the Blades of the Inquisition fan hack) because I thought it would be interesting to use a non-Western culture as a basis, especially Abyssinia being less widely represented. For my home game, it worked.But I wouldn't publish it (even with rewrites) because I'm not of Ethiopian or Eritrean descent, it's not my story to tell, and I don't think the basic concept would be in any way sensitive to Ethiopians and Eritreans (making Abyssinian analogues into part of the absurdly fanatical, violent and dystopian Warhammer 40,000 Imperium isn't doing a less represented culture a favour). And that's even before we consider that the planet was named after a province that is currently embroiled in civil war...I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tun Kai Poh, post: 8462236, member: 6761960"] It also depends whether we're talking about making a setting for my home game or for the public. I once created a mining planet set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe where the main local culture was based on the Empire of Abyssinia, for a campaign using a hack of Blades in the Dark (the Blades of the Inquisition fan hack) because I thought it would be interesting to use a non-Western culture as a basis, especially Abyssinia being less widely represented. For my home game, it worked. But I wouldn't publish it (even with rewrites) because I'm not of Ethiopian or Eritrean descent, it's not my story to tell, and I don't think the basic concept would be in any way sensitive to Ethiopians and Eritreans (making Abyssinian analogues into part of the absurdly fanatical, violent and dystopian Warhammer 40,000 Imperium isn't doing a less represented culture a favour). And that's even before we consider that the planet was named after a province that is currently embroiled in civil war...I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole. [/QUOTE]

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