Bethesda pulls a promotional pen-and-paper adventure tied the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online Elsweyr expansion after well-evidenced accusations of plagiarism.
A pen-and-paper RPG adventure released in promotion of The Elder Scrolls Online‘s upcoming Elsweyr expansion has been pulled after facing accusations of plagiarism. Dungeons & Dragons writer and designer Paige Leitman, following the release of the Elder Scrolls adventure, produced substantial evidence that it had been copied from her original work, the Dungeons & Dragons adventure “The Black Road”. Bethesda confirmed that it had pulled the Elsweyr adventure while it investigates the matter.
The scale of the alleged plagiarism is expansive. Leitman produced a slideshow presentation comparing selections from each text showing that while The Elder Scrolls Online adventure replaces certain words and names, it otherwise copies The Black Road sentence by sentence for its entirety.
