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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 9358105" data-attributes="member: 15538">[URL unfurl="true"]https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/woodcraftmau/z9-wwp1-zkcu.html[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9D%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB#/media/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Sakaiminato_Mizuki_Shigeru_Road_Koro-pok-guru_Statue_1.JPG[/URL]If spirit folk are matter-of-factly members of human society, they aren't rare. Korobokkuru are fairly rare, but hengeyokai don't seem to me. And you're ignoring lots of creatures like bakemono which are numerous and do have their own societies. They are a type of goblin. Simply lacking elves and typical dwarves does not mean the region can't fit into FR. There are plenty of people who are mostly clustered in one area. For instance, tabaxi are pretty rare in the Dalelands.Is a fu template creature a traditional Chinese folkloric monster? I have never seen a fu dog or similar creature depicted with hooves. So, maybe this samurai is riding some other kind of not real world magical creature. It's clearly not a horse or an elk, though.Whether you they are gnomes or dwarves doesn't change too much about them. Or you could just say they were something else. I think they were described as dwarves because they are fairly tough, and because the writers wanted to be clear Western dwarves were not in the region, and the dwarfs there were disconnected from what most D&D players thought of as dwarves.But conceptually, I would say they are more like gnomes.Oh, it needs changes, for sure. For one thing, Kara-Tur looks suspiciously like a fantasy setting where the Japanese were successful in conquering Korea and northern China. Which, if you know a little history, is likely to rub some people the wrong way. The main issue, IMO, is that Kara-Tur ignores a lot of the "creator myth" stuff surrounding humans, elves, dwarves, and so forth in FR. But that's a problem with FR, not Kara-Tur. FR is already a multi-dimensional setting, so having primordial "dwarven gods" and "elven gods" is already pretty weird. The main world-building issue is that Kara-Tur doesn't seem to have the buffer regions that separate Chinese culture, and the northern and east Asian regions, from the West in the real world. I'm not aware of a FR Himalayas, or a FR "India" that is as populous, diverse, and powerful as real world India, or a FR Thailand, or Turkmen. Not that I would want to copy these nations exactly, but I think you want a smooth transition from FR-Europe to FR-Mediterranean to FR-Indo-Persia to FR-Eastern Asian regions. Most of the existing FR regisions I would say are somewhat reminscent of those places are heavily exoticized. Again, it's not Kara-Tur I see as the problem, but a general lack of thoughtful world-building, and a lot of falling back on Orientalist tropes. FR has problems with "barbarian" tropes as well, but in general, is more dignified when it comes to obvious Europea parallels.</blockquote>

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