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<blockquote data-quote="Myrdin Potter" data-source="post: 8031806" data-attributes="member: 6843593"><p>It wasn't just the culture from Japan, I graduated high school in 1982 and the thought was the Japan was going to become the world leader in business. So many popular consumer items came from Japan that people were just naturally curious. I switched playing AD&D to Runequest before OA came out, but I guess I would have been the target market back then. Not 100% sure, I never bought into the whole Japanese craze then, even though I really liked Star Wars and that was heavily influenced by Japanese Samurai films.</p><p></p><p>I think the big thing for Japan was that local RPG sprang up and still thrive today. Local Japanese that were interested probably worked for local Japanese gaming companies around the time that OA came out.</p><p></p><p>Other threads have hashed out the Chinese in China vs. Chinese American themes and I doubt there is such a thing as one Asian that can be an Asian sensitivity reader or editor for all Asian cultures. I know even Oriental is just thought to be somewhat silly in China as they view themselves as the middle but it does not make anyone there mad that I noticed, whereas it does get viewed different elsewhere.</p><p></p><p>As for the playtesters listed in the OA book, "for critiquing and improving the manuscript on short notice." is pretty clear what they did. Improving is not ambiguous. The Monster Manual (1st AD&D book) has some thanks, but no credits like this. I would tend to give the benefit of the doubt there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Myrdin Potter, post: 8031806, member: 6843593"] It wasn't just the culture from Japan, I graduated high school in 1982 and the thought was the Japan was going to become the world leader in business. So many popular consumer items came from Japan that people were just naturally curious. I switched playing AD&D to Runequest before OA came out, but I guess I would have been the target market back then. Not 100% sure, I never bought into the whole Japanese craze then, even though I really liked Star Wars and that was heavily influenced by Japanese Samurai films. I think the big thing for Japan was that local RPG sprang up and still thrive today. Local Japanese that were interested probably worked for local Japanese gaming companies around the time that OA came out. Other threads have hashed out the Chinese in China vs. Chinese American themes and I doubt there is such a thing as one Asian that can be an Asian sensitivity reader or editor for all Asian cultures. I know even Oriental is just thought to be somewhat silly in China as they view themselves as the middle but it does not make anyone there mad that I noticed, whereas it does get viewed different elsewhere. As for the playtesters listed in the OA book, "for critiquing and improving the manuscript on short notice." is pretty clear what they did. Improving is not ambiguous. The Monster Manual (1st AD&D book) has some thanks, but no credits like this. I would tend to give the benefit of the doubt there. [/QUOTE]
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