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Each Cultivation Path could be a Feat Chain of sorts, one separate from the feats a character can get through their class. PF2 sort of...

One thing I'd add to this list is Blue Eye Samurai (2023). Actually, as bad as a sequel it is to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I...

In OA they seemed to be the offspring of mortals and semi-divine nature spirits. Sort of a liminal space between Genasi and Aasimar...

It’s not a bad match at all, since they’re based on this Ainu myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korpokkur They’re probably not dwarves.

There's not only East Asian Elves in the PHB, the same picture that has an East Asian Elf has a Gnome with African features in it. The...

Yes, that’s fair, and as such I’ve got no problems with that. Spirit folk aren’t elves, though, I just have no idea what they are. If...

Hmm, I’d have to strongly disagree. Elves and dwarves are very distinctly Western, the D&D versions of Tolkien archetypes and European...

More practically, we’re talking about 5e so any rules would have to be built on that skeleton. Here are some starters for ten: Wuxia...

I’m guessing this is fictional? There are a lot of Ninja Warrior (as in, the TV show) training gyms in Calgary but I don’t think any of...

I also think there is some interesting stuff established in the original material which could do with some expansion and development...

Well, there’s a lot there. The original drew on 70s/80s martial arts films mostly (Japanese/US ninja films and Shaw Brothers kung fu)...

There was quite a lot of Kara Tur that wasn’t Japanese in OA - sure, quite a few of the classes were Japan-specific (ninja, yakuza...

Very much this, there are a tonne of Asian writers and designers in Asia - China, Japan, Korea, South East Asia who could be brought in...

Well, if I get a wish list: 1) For it to make some historical/geographical/mythical/cultural sense and have some foundation in East and...

Yes, I just don’t think we have the evidence one way or another to say whether ghosts exist. Sure, it’s unlikely (more or less unlikely...