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Oriental Adventures 5e - What race options are there?
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<blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 7124602" data-attributes="member: 6855057"><p>Yeah, when I think D&D fantasy, I think "high" fantasy, where there's lots of unique races. Most fantasy novels in general tend to be more "low" fantasy, or "historical" fantasy - they use purely human races. However, Japanese fantasy also comes in lots of different high fantasy stories, via anime, manga, visual novels, light novels, and video games - there are literally countless examples of Japanese fantasy with non-humans to draw on. Even a complete novice like myself can think of Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, and Inuyasha, just off the top of my head.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Indeed. Japanese yokai may be more famous than most, but not a lot of them are really well-suited for the PC approach. I mean, even if they do often get protag/supporting character roles in plenty of anime, manga, whatever, it's hard to think of how, say, a karakasa could journey alongside other humanoids and partake equally, unless given a more human-like shape. Oni and the various bakemono fit the bill best.</p><p></p><p>So, yeah, I would happily support more Chinese, Korean and especially Indian races in a proper Oriental Adventures game, but especially for that last field, I personally don't know enough to make suggestions. Apparently, some versions of the Ramyana or other Indian epics do feature non-hostile bear-people, rakshasa and nagas, but I wouldn't know the first thing about that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietBrowser, post: 7124602, member: 6855057"] Yeah, when I think D&D fantasy, I think "high" fantasy, where there's lots of unique races. Most fantasy novels in general tend to be more "low" fantasy, or "historical" fantasy - they use purely human races. However, Japanese fantasy also comes in lots of different high fantasy stories, via anime, manga, visual novels, light novels, and video games - there are literally countless examples of Japanese fantasy with non-humans to draw on. Even a complete novice like myself can think of Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, and Inuyasha, just off the top of my head. Indeed. Japanese yokai may be more famous than most, but not a lot of them are really well-suited for the PC approach. I mean, even if they do often get protag/supporting character roles in plenty of anime, manga, whatever, it's hard to think of how, say, a karakasa could journey alongside other humanoids and partake equally, unless given a more human-like shape. Oni and the various bakemono fit the bill best. So, yeah, I would happily support more Chinese, Korean and especially Indian races in a proper Oriental Adventures game, but especially for that last field, I personally don't know enough to make suggestions. Apparently, some versions of the Ramyana or other Indian epics do feature non-hostile bear-people, rakshasa and nagas, but I wouldn't know the first thing about that. [/QUOTE]
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