LuisCarlos17f
Legend
I was thinking after publishing my last post if shen/spirit-folk are beaitufl, loves to live in the nature and can speak with animals, then the are perfect to be characters like Disney princesses. And the koropokurus could had got some kawai(cute) touch to the something like those innocent kid-friendly cartoons about little people who lives in the nature. They could be used for stories about conflicts for the honor, because not all have got the same codes, or even the painful dilleme among to choose the prestige among the rest of the society or fidelity to your own conscience.
Hengeyokai maybe need a little nerfing with the shapesifter powers, maybe more staggered between levels, but they are perfect for jianghu ("rivers and lakes"), and I mean stories about underworld, tricksters and criminal groups. They could vigilantes or survivors who want revenge against some mafia capo. Hengeyokai can be example of the hypocrite honor, prestigious members of high society in the cover, but cynical rasctas inside. Something like the fantasy version with superpowers/ki technique of the serie "Warrior".
* The nezumi PC is from the Legend of Five Rings. Can be used by WotC anyway or are they copyright by Fantasy Flight Games/Asmodee?
* My theory is WotC isn't going to create new IPs directly first for D&D and later adapted into other lines (cartoons or videogames) but the opposite, new IPs for movies, teleseries, videogames, and later adapted into D&D. The root of the trouble is wuxia are practically superheroes and this doesn't help to be easily adapted into TTRPG but if they are videogames created with game mechanics based in the d20 system. The challenge is most of cheators want to have over controll over their own work, not to be gaven after the pay.
* Some tropes and stereotypes are easier to be tolerated if we don't abuse. And we shouldn't be reported if those tropes appear in the fiction created by the own Asians.
* We can agree it's advisable to hire consultats about the Asian society but these may contradict each other. Let's imagine for example a consultant with Spanish origins and proud about this telling about the naives of the new world were better when Spanish conquerors arrived and stopped the human sacrifices, but other consult with also Spanish roots can tell all the classic tropes of anti-Spanish black-legend. We know the relations between China, Japan and Korea aren't very good, and naive for a country will not tell good things about the neighbours, or this could happen with 3PPs or the own players publishing his homebred settins. Not only WotC but the rest of Western publishers should be very careful. My advice to fight racism and xenophobia is to defend the respect of the human dignity. Without this we only change a poison with other and we go to fall to the dark side of the force.
* I have also thought about the main superheroes comic publishers, Marvel and DC, creating jianghu version of their universes, where "ordinary" humans with special qi techniques could defeat superhumans, for example Batman vs the kryptonian general Zord or Bizarro, or Daredevil vsThor or Hulk.
* The don't need the name of samuri for the warrior who serves a noble house, nor shinobi for the spy for the stealth class with some special tricks linked with qi techniques. But if there is a new "Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords" I advice classes whose concepts were easy to be used in wuxia adventures.
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Hengeyokai maybe need a little nerfing with the shapesifter powers, maybe more staggered between levels, but they are perfect for jianghu ("rivers and lakes"), and I mean stories about underworld, tricksters and criminal groups. They could vigilantes or survivors who want revenge against some mafia capo. Hengeyokai can be example of the hypocrite honor, prestigious members of high society in the cover, but cynical rasctas inside. Something like the fantasy version with superpowers/ki technique of the serie "Warrior".
* The nezumi PC is from the Legend of Five Rings. Can be used by WotC anyway or are they copyright by Fantasy Flight Games/Asmodee?
* My theory is WotC isn't going to create new IPs directly first for D&D and later adapted into other lines (cartoons or videogames) but the opposite, new IPs for movies, teleseries, videogames, and later adapted into D&D. The root of the trouble is wuxia are practically superheroes and this doesn't help to be easily adapted into TTRPG but if they are videogames created with game mechanics based in the d20 system. The challenge is most of cheators want to have over controll over their own work, not to be gaven after the pay.
* Some tropes and stereotypes are easier to be tolerated if we don't abuse. And we shouldn't be reported if those tropes appear in the fiction created by the own Asians.
* We can agree it's advisable to hire consultats about the Asian society but these may contradict each other. Let's imagine for example a consultant with Spanish origins and proud about this telling about the naives of the new world were better when Spanish conquerors arrived and stopped the human sacrifices, but other consult with also Spanish roots can tell all the classic tropes of anti-Spanish black-legend. We know the relations between China, Japan and Korea aren't very good, and naive for a country will not tell good things about the neighbours, or this could happen with 3PPs or the own players publishing his homebred settins. Not only WotC but the rest of Western publishers should be very careful. My advice to fight racism and xenophobia is to defend the respect of the human dignity. Without this we only change a poison with other and we go to fall to the dark side of the force.
* I have also thought about the main superheroes comic publishers, Marvel and DC, creating jianghu version of their universes, where "ordinary" humans with special qi techniques could defeat superhumans, for example Batman vs the kryptonian general Zord or Bizarro, or Daredevil vsThor or Hulk.
* The don't need the name of samuri for the warrior who serves a noble house, nor shinobi for the spy for the stealth class with some special tricks linked with qi techniques. But if there is a new "Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords" I advice classes whose concepts were easy to be used in wuxia adventures.
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