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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erdric Dragin" data-source="post: 9359901" data-attributes="member: 6785197">I think an Asian setting can be done properly for Forgotten Realms, just look at Tian Xia for Pathfinder. Not a hard thing to do. Get the writers, get the consultants, done deal. I wouldn't focus too hard on a specific Asian style, either. Just collect what's most common. It's been done with Eurofantasy. The iconic castles and European folklore on dragons and monsters. To be fair, D&D is riddled with monsters from various cultures, although most are European in origin. I think it'd be best to have the same for an Eastern setting, pull from various Asian cultures, make the races and monsters Asian fantasy, but mix in a little of the Western fantasy. What place does a chimera, medusa, yuan-ti, elf, gnome, etc. have in Kara-Tur, for example? What are the intersections between Lung dragons and Metallic/Gem/Chromatics? Between anything from Faerun to Kara-Tur? Besides distance, what makes the two continents distinct . Do Lung dragons immediately assault any Metallic/Chromatic/Gem dragon that enters Kara-Tur under some divine mandate by the Celestial Bureaucracy? What happens when orc raids turn their sights on the Tuigans and eastern Shou Lung? So much can be done. I think maybe WotC is overwhelmed with the notion, possibly.</blockquote>