Recent content by Wulfhelm

a.) Acknowledge that renouncing the OGL 1.0(a) does not and cannot happen for those who have already published under it, including 5e content. That also seems to be the legally sound position. b.) Offer a legacy OGL 1.0(b) covering the 3.x SRD (and related) in the future, with strong...

I'm not an expert, especially not in US law, but there are many parts that sound really unprofessional to me: XI. INDEMNITY. If You get in legal trouble, or get Us in legal trouble, here’s what will happen: A. If We are on the receiving end of any legal claims, fees, expenses, or penalties...

That is true, but for historical or historical-inspired games the playing field is usually a lot more level because the past is almost as much of a foreign country to present-day cultural "insiders" as it is to "outsiders". If it came to, say, writing a supplement set during the reign of the...

... so why would the idea of making one about Japan or China or Korea be outlandish?

Exactly. Watching some of the discussions on other social media, YT etc. I see mostly the two poles of a.) the outrage crowd trying to ban it for being racist propaganda and b.) OSR grogs defending it as a great supplement that you should totally get and play right now. When in my opinion, it...

... errr... they made seven historic settings for AD&D in the early 90s, and as noted, not one of them was non-European in focus.

Oh come on, man! Do you have an idea of how many products TSR pumped out during that time period? In 1992 alone, four from the HR series.

Ideally, a given Japanese setting, like the late Sengoku period, would have been given the full treatment in the historical reference series, like the Viking period, the Crusades etc. - complete with ideas how to transport them into a fantasy world. Even more ideally, there should also have been...

I live in fear of the day when someone is going to come for ATLA. Because you could absolutely start gunning for it with the same kind of phony argument that has been voiced in the current debate.

Yes, but it would also be a good way to reduce your sales. I for one, would be fascinated by an "Onmyôji"-inspired game about ghost hunting in Heian Japan, but I can guarantee to you that the absence of Samurai, Ninja, tea, Zen Buddhism etc. would make it a hard sell.

I'm not restricting anything. If I had that kind of power I'd do something else with it, like install cameras on all bike lanes and have people who intentionally smash bottles on these lanes punished by having rotten eggs thrown at them. But generally, if you're designing a setting inspired by...

I dunno. I prefer the wide-eyed naive enthusiasm of the 80s over the faux-enlightened smug pretentiousness of L5R/OA 3e. Especially considering that they really had no claim of having done anything better, and in fact did a lot of things worse. Yeah, yeah... with the old "Rokugan is not Japan...

Errr... no. Definitely not. The illustration in OA is extremely basic anyway, but even on a more detailed one I doubt you could distinguish a Shinshintô from a Shintô or even most Kotô (I certainly could not.) Especially since the most visible changes over the centuries preceding the late 18th...

Sure, but in that sentence I was talking about FGU's Bushido, which had a bit more of a connection to actual Japan going on.

Now that you mention it, yeah I guess it makes sense that the Kaguyahime legend was at least an inspiration for "Bamboo Spirit Folk", and the story of Urashima Taro could have been a similar inspiration for "Sea Spirit Folk". But it's really flimsy, as you say, and the vagueness of concept...