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I'd call that clever, not cheesy. It's really no different than the Teutonic Order going from a rag-tag group of knights guarding German...

It's been over 100 years and two planet-wide catastrophes since Cormyr has been detailed in anything more than a very cursory manner...

Let me rephrase: I think there's a decent market for D&D to put out an East Asian inspired setting book, more in-depth than the...

This has gotten buried among all the posts, but to clarify on Calimshan: "Calimshan was reworked with the help of Professor Shahreena...

I totally forgot about that section in SCAG. So it would indicate that Shou Lung, Kozakura, and Wa are still extant; intriguingly, T'u...

There's a little bit more in the SCAG: Zakhara also gets a little blurb: Since the Realms have two Arabian themed areas, I've...

The alternate covers with the product names added.

Oh, that vertical lettering is just the chef's kiss.

I was thinking along the same lines. The Shou Lung - T'u Lung divide mirrors times in China's history when there was a two-state north -...

Kara-Tur was mentioned in the Humans section of the 2014 PHB, specifically being east of Faerûn. The Shou ethnicity was stated to be the...

Yes, it could be done, but it would have a lot more to untangle, and would have a lot more potential pitfalls, than fixing Calimshan or...

Calimshan is reasonably close to Lantan, which is the big magi-tech center of the setting, so perhaps they're getting the magi-tech from...

No, the fantasy Aztecs quite decisively lost to the fantasy Spanish (from Amn). And a good number of them were magically turned into...

Meh, we're arguing over minimal information that can be interpreted multiple ways. Hopefully they'll give us more details soon so we...

The main issues for Kara-Tur were the use of local terms, usually Japanese, in general for the entire setting, even when it wasn't...