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Message: <blockquote data-quote="beta-ray" data-source="post: 9356041" data-attributes="member: 1259">Not sure it is an obsession, but it may be something a lot of folks are interested in (just not sure if obsessed would be a good description). I think a bunch of what came into D&D comes from pulp roots, that doesn't mean D&D should have never come about.I'm probably not your typical case, but my interest comes through my own roots and upbringing. I'm 100% American, but am ethnically Japanese. Growing up, I was exposed to a lot of Japanese popular culture. Not only samurai films, but folk tales, anime, and manga. It's difficult to say exactly what is different about those media, but they do feel different from most of the non-Japanese media I devoured.Aside from the non-human realms presented in D&D, I'm interested in how those would look through the eyes of another culture that have the kind of spirits that yokai represent, along with some of the other aesthetics that were presented to me growing up.Does that have to be in the form of an official setting? Of course not, but to me that would be cool. Just in my opinion, I don't care if they present a Kara Tur in name only (base it on a different thing or say that is the "foreigners" name for it for all I care) but I'd like to see a vaguely Japanese setting in D&D.That's just me though.</blockquote>