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<blockquote data-quote="Greenstone.Walker" data-source="post: 8031833" data-attributes="member: 6788312"><p>I would love to see a sourcebook detainling a world based on the mythology of Asian and/or Pacific Rim nations. I want to see how D&D might work in the world of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature (you might be familiar with the characters Tripitaka, Monkey King, Pigsy and Sandy from one of the works). I want my characters to adventure in the Edo period of Japan, to meet Miyamoto Musashi (or maybe Usagi Yojimbo).</p><p></p><p>The mythology of China and Japan is well-exposed in the West, how about Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, etc?</p><p></p><p>Theros (from my brief reading) seems like a interestin gameworld based on elements of real-world Greek mythology. I want the same, but based on the mythologies and folktales of other countries. Something like how Midgard is based on real-world folktales from Eastern Europe and Russia.</p><p></p><p>But... and this is a very large but... I want the books to be respectful of the cultures. That pretty much means having scholars involved who know the histories, folklore and mythologies of the countries and time periods being mined for ideas. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean hiring asians (because "only asians are qualified to write about Asia" is just as bad as the cultural appropriation we are striving to remove).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greenstone.Walker, post: 8031833, member: 6788312"] I would love to see a sourcebook detainling a world based on the mythology of Asian and/or Pacific Rim nations. I want to see how D&D might work in the world of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature (you might be familiar with the characters Tripitaka, Monkey King, Pigsy and Sandy from one of the works). I want my characters to adventure in the Edo period of Japan, to meet Miyamoto Musashi (or maybe Usagi Yojimbo). The mythology of China and Japan is well-exposed in the West, how about Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, etc? Theros (from my brief reading) seems like a interestin gameworld based on elements of real-world Greek mythology. I want the same, but based on the mythologies and folktales of other countries. Something like how Midgard is based on real-world folktales from Eastern Europe and Russia. But... and this is a very large but... I want the books to be respectful of the cultures. That pretty much means having scholars involved who know the histories, folklore and mythologies of the countries and time periods being mined for ideas. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean hiring asians (because "only asians are qualified to write about Asia" is just as bad as the cultural appropriation we are striving to remove). [/QUOTE]
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