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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8031045" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>I replied a little about the history of them in the other thread, but in regards to Asian contributors, there have been some Asian Contributors over the years (some of who I know personally). Some of it would be politically inhospitable to talk about at ENworld (meaning, it touches on things that go far enough that could inflame enough passionately to cause serious disruption). Basically, some have said that they have contributed things for D&D at other times (even recently as a contractor, but not an Asian contractor in that instance) which have had their credit taken from them by others.</p><p></p><p>Other Asian Contributors during a more recent period, but on a much limited basis would be the (I think these are Asian contributors, but I may also be mistaken) artist Raven Mimura and brand managers awhile ago (Raymond Lau?). </p><p></p><p>Much of the Asian contributors decided to go their own way and have blazed TTRPGs in Japan (and this probably applies to other parts of Asia, I'm not as familiar with them as I only had one player I knew who was in China for a while before coming to the West, the others were Japanese) creating a local scene of RPGS there which mostly is unknown to many Western audiences, but has heavily influenced many of the other products coming out of Japan (for example, many of the influences on fantasy fiction and fantasy soap operas. Also CRPGS obviously).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 8031045, member: 4348"] I replied a little about the history of them in the other thread, but in regards to Asian contributors, there have been some Asian Contributors over the years (some of who I know personally). Some of it would be politically inhospitable to talk about at ENworld (meaning, it touches on things that go far enough that could inflame enough passionately to cause serious disruption). Basically, some have said that they have contributed things for D&D at other times (even recently as a contractor, but not an Asian contractor in that instance) which have had their credit taken from them by others. Other Asian Contributors during a more recent period, but on a much limited basis would be the (I think these are Asian contributors, but I may also be mistaken) artist Raven Mimura and brand managers awhile ago (Raymond Lau?). Much of the Asian contributors decided to go their own way and have blazed TTRPGs in Japan (and this probably applies to other parts of Asia, I'm not as familiar with them as I only had one player I knew who was in China for a while before coming to the West, the others were Japanese) creating a local scene of RPGS there which mostly is unknown to many Western audiences, but has heavily influenced many of the other products coming out of Japan (for example, many of the influences on fantasy fiction and fantasy soap operas. Also CRPGS obviously). [/QUOTE]
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