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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3417078" data-attributes="member: 4937">Certainly."The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." - Ghengis KhanBut if that's all he wants, he can get it from D20 just fine.  The Great Khan is not one that worry about looking cool when he fought.  He knew that tasting victory is sweeter than looking cool while you were doing it.  He would know that those that wanted to live life with 'style' were fools, since victory was always and the only thing that was stylish and weakness was always lame regardless of how elegant you looked.  I don't think the Great Khan would be all that impressed with Wuxia, and at the risk of offending some people, I don't think he'd be all that impressed with what has passed as 'eastern martial arts' in popular culture for the last 40 years or so.  I mentioned the fact that the USA National basketball now loses to teams like Greece earlier.  I direct you to Pride and the UFC.  Alot of people have claimed that the big problem with the sports is that the fighters don't look very stylish when they are kicking butt.  I would also note how many Kung Fu fighters have been successful in those arenas, or for example how many Japanese fighters raised on eastern martial arts are in the top ranks of Japanese MMA associations.But now I'm entirely digressing, and I suspect so were you.</blockquote>

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