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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8032822" data-attributes="member: 6694221">Sure, but if a setting doesnt want to use genre/tropes/culture in an accurate way, then it does well to avoid any reallife names like "Wuxia". The game is asking for problems concerning appropriation and misrepresentation. At the very least, the setting must avoid linking the stolen tropes to offensive parts of game.• Dont borrow what one doesnt understand.• Dont describe a reallife cultural term in a way that is false.Sure, but "adding to a living genre" presupposes that one is an insider within the living genre. Thus the one is intimate with it, and knows what one is talking about.A movie that comes to mind is Kill Bill. This was a kind of gonzo movie colliding tropes of white American samurai, Japanese mafia, and some smattering of authentic sacred traditions? I dont know how Japanese citizens tend to respond to this movie. But it seems like the kind of movie that needs to know what it is doing and exactly what kind of poetic licenses one can get away with.</blockquote>