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The co-writer of “The Black Road,” writer Paige Leitman, pointed out numerous similarities between her work and “Elsweyr,” some of which were almost word for word reproductions of her work. “There’s nothing like the desert to make people feel small and insignificant. In every direction, huge dunes roll across the landscape, and an even bigger sky looms above,” reads the opening sentences of “The Black Road.” Meanwhile, the opening line of “Elsweyr” reads “Nothing beats the desert to make people feel small and unimportant. In every direction enormous dunes roll across the landscape, and an even larger empty air skies above it.” In other places, it appears that the writer of “Elsweyr” crudely changed a sentence or two and swapped out D&D races for ones found in The Elder Scrolls. We’ll also note that the module wasn’t published under the Open Gaming License, which allows third party companies to use D&D rules in their own manuscripts.
The “Elsweyr” adventure has been pulled down, as was the Facebook post originally promoting it. ESO’s Facebook and Twitter both have posts explaining that they pulled down the tabletop adventure.
Leitman is a writer of some fantastic D&D work which is available on the DMs Guild. Meanwhile, Elder Scrolls Online’s newest expansion (also named “Elsweyr”) comes out later this month.
(via ArsTechnica)
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