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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Evenglare" data-source="post: 6307996" data-attributes="member: 63245">I find it extremely annoying that oriental/Far east/whatever you call it, is always an aside or an expansion. Of course we have Legend of the 5 Rings which is one of my favorite games ever. But in almost every medium it's just so far off to the side, it rarely gets the center stage. For instance, world of warcraft is a sort of classic fantasy and then Mists of Pandaria comes out- an expansion. Magic the gathering had a couple of blocks of eastern inspired stuff. Guild wars expansion was oriental themed. Pathfinder has the Jade(something or other) adventure path, and ninja and samurai are in an expansion book. Final fantasy, despite being from Japan usually has a samurai or ninja themed character thrown in but never the focus of the story. There are extremely few eastern fantasy novels that I'm aware of, while there are thousands of Knightly European Magic stuff. It's really sad because there's SO MUCH history and fantasy elements out there but everything focuses on western stuff. Like I said earlier there's Legend of the 5 Rings roleplaying game. If you want that kind of setting at the forefront, that is basically your only mainstream option. No other RPG (that I'm aware of) is build from the ground up to support that specific kind of setting. Same with video games, there's..... uh... Jade Empire and the "Warriors" series of games that focus on eastern stuff. We get more of it in anime sure, Dragonball, Avatar/Korra, Naruto etc, which is expected but still.... not really as much as you would think compared to western stuff. There's no real point to this post, I just find it interesting that everyone complains that XXX is so generic same traditional fantasy stuff when there's a completely untapped pool in eastern inspired mythology/fantasies etc. It just kind of sucks that it's RARELY the focus of things. If you feel this way as well and haven't checked it out, GO LOOK AT LEGEND OF THE 5 RINGS!!!</blockquote>

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