D&D’s next book includes an adventure inspired by the Black experience in the American South

polygon.com:

Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, the next anthology of adventures for Dungeons & Dragons, will be the first book written entirely by people of color in the nearly 50-year history of D&D. Sixteen writers gave their time and expertise to Wizards of the Coast, among them author and game designer Erin Roberts. Her adventure is called “Written in Blood,” and it will immerse players in a new location called Godsbreath, a land inspired by her own family history.

“Godsbreath is really my personal love letter [and] homage to the Black experience in the Southern United States,” Roberts said during a presentation for the press. “It’s really exciting to me to get a chance reach back to my family’s own past and legacy in Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia.”

Roberts is an early career fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. Her past gaming work includes several products for Paizo, where she contributed to both the Pathfinder and Starfinder lines, and writing for the mobile game Zombies, Run! In writing for Wizards she said she was initially inspired by a book written by her great uncle, professor Chalmers Archer, first published in 1991.

“The first thing that I did when I got the chance to do this was run to my great uncle’s book, Growing Up Black in Rural Mississippi, the one that is actually inscribed to me and my sisters,” Roberts said. “I flipped through it — there’s pictures of my family on it, [pictures of] my great grandmother — and really to get a chance to ground myself in what the sort of experience was in Black, rural South [in the 1930s and ’40s] and how I can make that magical and amazing in a D&D context.”

Godsbreath is more than just a singular city or a tiny village. It’s an entire region, one that makes use