Reply To: D&D officially turning Forgotten Realms sights away from Euro inspired campaigns

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Lol… well I seem to have opened up things with making the news more broadly known amongst us. I pretty much fall into the same thoughts already expressed here that the worlds are broad as is. Al Qadim and Oriental Adventures I think had their appeal to try and broaden the scope of the campaign settings. I think that the Shaar addition might have had potential but the whole of RPGs is to try and make the realm fantastic by how alien it is. You can’t really make Africa alien by the distance of time and space away from the modern when people still live tribally today as they did centuries ago. Greyhawk covered quite a bit with their cultures in Forgotten Realms and may have already covered what a whole new setting set out to play. Grousing about the culture war’s effects on gaming really doesn’t attend to fact that there are elements of society that push on our hobby. It makes little sense within the community to just bend to the will of ideologues viewing the hobby from behind a lense of identity politics as it will just ruin business for the companies doing business. As one of my favorite YouTube creators says “Get Woke, Go Broke”.

Overall, I’m also aware that this is a forum for a business in Europe where things are nowhere near as free for speech so as much as a rant is a good vent of frustration regarding my happy-fun-time it might hurt the OTT crew. I love this platform and you lot are an extensive community of people to be friendly with. I’ll leave off with the pleasantness of knowing you all, slapping figures with paint and minimizing my grudge factor.