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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geoffrey" data-source="post: 1166740" data-attributes="member: 764">My favorite setting for D&D is a fantasy version of our own earth. The problem is that the standard D&D monsters, magic spells, magic items, and character classes and races obviously had their origin as a mishmash of wargaming needs and various and sundry fantasy authors (along with a dollop of earth's mythologies). These D&D things simply don't reflect earth's mythologies very well.What D&D products (of any edition) try to detail earth's pre-gunpowder cultures in game terms? I can think of two lines of products that are kind of what I'm looking for:1. the Historical Reference books for 2nd edition AD&D2. some of Avalanche Press's d20 productsIs that it? I'm not interested in products that are primarily "D&D stuff with an ethnic flavor". For example, Nyambe has Africanized dwarves and elves running around in a land that isn't Africa. It's not a product that details Africa in D&D terms. Instead, it's D&D with only a veneer of Africa.I'd like to see, for example, a sourcebook of medieval China (not a land that is merely "China-like") in game terms. It would have to have an entirely new magic system. I wouldn't want to see any magic missiles, for example. I'd want the magic system to be based on that of Chinese myth and legend. The same would go for the monsters. No orcs and such, just Chinese creatures.I'm looking for real world myths rendered into D&D game terms. I'm not looking for standard D&D (fireballs, beholders, etc.) with a dash of real mythology.Does anyone have any suggestions for me?</blockquote>

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