Me: "Right, time to give my #CandlekeepMysteries adventure an in-depth read." “Colonialist language and imagery around the Grippli was inserted as well, moving them from being simple and utilitarian with obvious culture and technology to being ‘primitives’ who ‘primitively decorate’ their thatched huts with crab bits.” “The Yuan-ti were reduced down to just being evil for evil’s sake, the Grippli had their culture striped out and so on,” Barber said in the blog post. When Wizards of the Coast did reach out, Barber says the company began coordinating media interviews wherein he discussed players being able to play as Grippli, building out their culture and relationship with other races, as well as how he shined a light on oft-overlooked threads of Forgotten Realms lore.Įxcept, the published version of theBook of Cylinders looked very different to him. He replied yes, was reportedly paid according to his contract, and then didn’t hear from the company for several months.
The draft passed through to playtesting, when Barber was asked if he could be contacted directly to address further edits. The Grippli are caught in the crossfire,” said Barber in a two-part explanation of events on his website.Īccording to Barber, all of his dealings with Wizards of the Coast’s editorial team progressed without a hitch for most of the process - he pitched an idea, which was accepted after “some minor modifications”. “The idea was that good Yuan-ti were working to hasten the awakening of the World Serpent, the mother goddess of the serpentfolk, by recovering an ancient tome from the crypt in the old temple (from the story in the book).
It detailed a conflict between two factions of the serpentine Yuan-Ti and their search for forgotten relics in an otherwise unassuming settlement of amphibian folk. He had been hired to create the Book of Cylinders, one of the many one-shot adventures included in the collection. One freelance writer for the new Dungeons & Dragons 5E supplement, Candlekeep Mysteries, claims publisher Wizards of the Coast dramatically changed his submitted material to the point that he no longer wants his name attributed in future printings.ĭesigner and games writer Graeme Barber, better known online as PanzerLion, posted a Twitter thread on March 21st detailing his experience reading his contribution to Candlekeep Mysteries.
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