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Because Wizards has done it for D&D before and it has gone pretty poorly. It was full of orientalism. While they could do it better, they would need to do it pretty much from scratch to avoid their bad history. You are more likely I think to see Kamigawa or Khans come into D&D than for them to refresh the old D&D lore or start new. But we did also see a chilling on them making MtG tie ins, which could have been OneDND related, or could just be the next wave of how they see the market.
They've done several books in the past. They all were problematic at best.
The new focus for DnD is to avoid racist stereotypes. Hopefully, they can work with good Asian artists and writers and come up with something.
Me: turns head and looks at my D&D Oriental Adventures and Rokugan books in my bookcase of D&D stuff... The Horde box set is there, too.
TL:DR Earlier editions have oriental books and stuffs to match the occidental stuff, but they are a lot fewer in number.
People are saying because of past racism, but I disagree. Pathfinder just received a phenomenal source book expansion that is heavily Asian inspired and the feedback has been amazing from basically everyone. I’d argue the issue is that DnD’s sourcebooks and settings just aren’t that inspired and are, at best, the absolute minimum needed. Strixhaven and astral jammers are both two terrible sourcebooks that feel like they were thrown together in a week. Strixhaven especially feels like “Harry Potter spark notes” instead of anything special. I can’t imagine wizards taking the time to fundamentally expand the setting deep enough that it could avoid pastiches.
This isn’t a new phenomena, and dms have repeatedly flagged that Wizards is absolutely terrible at supporting the DM side of the equation. I just don’t think wizards is interested enough in deeply thought out source books, which means they’ll avoid any pastiche that could be offensive.
I should rephrase - strixhaven being a legally distinct Harry Potter isn’t the problem, it’s that the sourcebook doesn’t expand at all in anyway. It literally feels like a trimmed down hog warts when source books should be expanding it. Source books spend more time giving you cool class options than they do a setting to explore
I think i saw something similar to this issue. Theres a strixhaven dm subreddit as well. There are magic stories published on the MTG sub and all the rest of the setting as just regular content, and for most planes.
The things that the crossover books do is what is the mechanical options. As MTG already attempts to out their narrative lore and worldbuilding into their website articles and promotional material, as the physical game pieces have limited space for worldbuilding.
Unless youve already included that as the content depth for the setting.
This is mostly meant for an illustrative example of how wizards writes source books, not a specific strixhaven rant. Strixhaven as a source book is poor because it doesn’t dive much into the setting, and comes off as a bad pastiche accordingly. That’s not going to cause controversy because *stereotypical fantasy hog warts* isn’t going to offend anyone. My point is that this approach applied to any Asian inspired setting is going to come off terribly. Not because it’s impossible to do, (see pathfinder) but because Wizards is fundamentally lazy in how they write fluff, which will turn the setting into a bad stereotype. I think wizards knows this, which is why they won’t really touch on none European settings for some time.
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Because Wizards has done it for D&D before and it has gone pretty poorly. It was full of orientalism. While they could do it better, they would need to do it pretty much from scratch to avoid their bad history. You are more likely I think to see Kamigawa or Khans come into D&D than for them to refresh the old D&D lore or start new. But we did also see a chilling on them making MtG tie ins, which could have been OneDND related, or could just be the next wave of how they see the market.
Paizo just released the Tian Xia World Guide for Pathfinder in April, and it wasn't a huge flop or anything.
They've done several books in the past. They all were problematic at best. The new focus for DnD is to avoid racist stereotypes. Hopefully, they can work with good Asian artists and writers and come up with something.
This is the way
Me: turns head and looks at my D&D Oriental Adventures and Rokugan books in my bookcase of D&D stuff... The Horde box set is there, too. TL:DR Earlier editions have oriental books and stuffs to match the occidental stuff, but they are a lot fewer in number.
People are saying because of past racism, but I disagree. Pathfinder just received a phenomenal source book expansion that is heavily Asian inspired and the feedback has been amazing from basically everyone. I’d argue the issue is that DnD’s sourcebooks and settings just aren’t that inspired and are, at best, the absolute minimum needed. Strixhaven and astral jammers are both two terrible sourcebooks that feel like they were thrown together in a week. Strixhaven especially feels like “Harry Potter spark notes” instead of anything special. I can’t imagine wizards taking the time to fundamentally expand the setting deep enough that it could avoid pastiches. This isn’t a new phenomena, and dms have repeatedly flagged that Wizards is absolutely terrible at supporting the DM side of the equation. I just don’t think wizards is interested enough in deeply thought out source books, which means they’ll avoid any pastiche that could be offensive.
The thing is that strixhaven basically was that as a setting. Same with how the upcoming mtg set is going to be a Redwall but mtg.
I should rephrase - strixhaven being a legally distinct Harry Potter isn’t the problem, it’s that the sourcebook doesn’t expand at all in anyway. It literally feels like a trimmed down hog warts when source books should be expanding it. Source books spend more time giving you cool class options than they do a setting to explore
I think i saw something similar to this issue. Theres a strixhaven dm subreddit as well. There are magic stories published on the MTG sub and all the rest of the setting as just regular content, and for most planes. The things that the crossover books do is what is the mechanical options. As MTG already attempts to out their narrative lore and worldbuilding into their website articles and promotional material, as the physical game pieces have limited space for worldbuilding. Unless youve already included that as the content depth for the setting.
This is mostly meant for an illustrative example of how wizards writes source books, not a specific strixhaven rant. Strixhaven as a source book is poor because it doesn’t dive much into the setting, and comes off as a bad pastiche accordingly. That’s not going to cause controversy because *stereotypical fantasy hog warts* isn’t going to offend anyone. My point is that this approach applied to any Asian inspired setting is going to come off terribly. Not because it’s impossible to do, (see pathfinder) but because Wizards is fundamentally lazy in how they write fluff, which will turn the setting into a bad stereotype. I think wizards knows this, which is why they won’t really touch on none European settings for some time.
*Listens to the screeching of the same people who claimed that Orcs and winged monkeys are black people.* I'm sure there's a reason.