An aside:  My cousin is in the Army.  He was recently transfered to an assignment in Okinawa.  This year's Christmas card from him featured a family portrait where they are all wearing samurai and geisha drag.  I immediately thought of this thread.

I've read over Banestorm, but not studied it, and unfortunately don't have a copy to check over, so I can't speak definitively on it. I do recall feeling that it was a pretty awful depiction of "Oriental" culture, being a mish-mash of different stereotypes someone got from bad movies and comics. In this, I felt it continued a general trend in roleplaying books, such as the oWoD's Akashic Brotherhood.

Yes, it was racist.

I didn't participate in this thread earlier because I'd just been over at SJGames talking about the use of "he" in rpg texts, where almost every male poster popped up to say it was right and proper, and that every woman roleplayer he knew said it was a good and fine thing, but unfortunately those women weren't around to post. So, you know, millions of lurkers support me in email, and all that. So I was a bit tired out by these sorts of issues.

This shit pisses me off. I demand better sourcebooks! I don't need to pay money for ignorant cliches, I can manage those myself!

Quote from: SigmundWhy is "native" a dubious term?

The natives are revolting, nothing dubious about that. :hellokitty: