Then what's left?
Fake history, culture, and mythology. Fictional inspired references. Shared terms and ideas portrayed in popular media
Then what's left?
Oh and to add. I want a way that folks could add those elements to their campaign. And to the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk and maybe others.I’m of Japanese descent. I was thrilled in my youth when I heard about that book. Actually getting it was, well I don’t own a copy now nor will I ever. I don’t wan’t to see it go down the memory hole, however. What I want? Is an authentic treatment of Japanese myth done D&D style. Same for Chinese myth and Korean, and several others. Done with respect and including experts from those cultures.
Like Ebberon? That has a fake history and culture and mythology.Fake history, culture, and mythology. Fictional inspired references. Shared terms and ideas portrayed in popular media
But why? D&D has never done that for any european myth and culture.What I want? Is an authentic treatment of Japanese myth done D&D style. Same for Chinese myth and Korean, and several others. Done with respect and including experts from those cultures.
You can find a happy medium between the two. Just look at the recent Theros book. Yeah, it's obviously not 100% historically accurate and paints in very broad strokes, but then you get things like a more or less authentic ancient Greek calendar (with intercalary months!) and you can see they did their research. That's probably one of the better routes to take with this, to find a happy medium between fantasy and reality that shows that some thought and research (with appropriate advisors) has been put into it.But why? D&D has never done that for any european myth and culture.
The D&D treatment is having a japanese samurai from the Edo period fighting a chinese monster from some Han period myth in a background inspired by the Korean Goryeo period. Just like a gothic knight stalking an ancient greek Hydra in an medieval english forest.
D&D has never aimed to do any of it's elements with accuracy or research but lives from "rule of cool" applied to "popculture/hollywood" ideas of what ancient times and myths looked like.
D&D is "300" not "History of Ancient Greek The Grand Textbook Collection Issue 1"
I agree.But why? D&D has never done that for any european myth and culture.
The D&D treatment is having a japanese samurai from the Edo period fighting a chinese monster from some Han period myth in a background inspired by the Korean Goryeo period. Just like a gothic knight stalking an ancient greek Hydra in an medieval english forest.
D&D has never aimed to do any of it's elements with accuracy or research but lives from "rule of cool" applied to "popculture/hollywood" ideas of what ancient times and myths looked like.
D&D is "300" not "History of Ancient Greek The Grand Textbook Collection Issue 1"
But with respect and care so as not to make another OA.But why? D&D has never done that for any european myth and culture.
The D&D treatment is having a japanese samurai from the Edo period fighting a chinese monster from some Han period myth in a background inspired by the Korean Goryeo period. Just like a gothic knight stalking an ancient greek Hydra in an medieval english forest.
D&D has never aimed to do any of it's elements with accuracy or research but lives from "rule of cool" applied to "popculture/hollywood" ideas of what ancient times and myths looked like.
D&D is "300" not "History of Ancient Greek The Grand Textbook Collection Issue 1"