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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9545893" data-attributes="member: 85555">A few thoughts here. China's history is quite extensive and wuxia can cover anything from very ancient pre-gunpowder periods to periods that are quite modern with all sorts of modern weaponry (there are wuxia stories for example set in the Ming Dynasty where you have western powers bringing european style guns into the setting, and China has had gunpowder for some time as [USER=6906155]@Paul Farquhar[/USER] points out: you won't find a six shooter in the song dynasty but you will find fire lances and eventually have things like Hand Cannons (and there is a type of hand canon that has nine barrels----I think the nine barrel hand cannons were from the Ming Dynasty). But if you are being historical, you could have a cowboy in a wuxia campaign in the late Qing Dynasty or in a setting modeled after that (and there are movies that feature characters like this in this era). And you could do a campaign inspired by the boxer rebellion where characters actually develop techniques that make them immune to firearms (The Boxer Rebellion is actually a pretty good time period for this sort of cowboy character to appear in-----and if getting an American in there feels forced you can always have him be English and something other than a cowboy). If your campaign setting is fantasy that is just inspired by history, things open up way more. That said, tone and genre is important, so obviously this is a matter of taste and what the right balance is, can vary a lot. So I am not saying you ought to do any of this [USER=4534]@MGibster[/USER]. But I think this sort of thing isn't that unusual to have in wuxia (characters from foreign lands showing up happens in the genre-------one recurring thing in Chinese wuxia movies is every so often you see a random American or British actor showing up playing this kind of character---like David Carradine appearing suddenly in True Legend----the 2010 film).</blockquote>

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