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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8031620" data-attributes="member: 6801228">[USER=779]@Kobold Avenger[/USER] and [USER=6777454]@GreenTengu[/USER] I think there is some miscommunication here. The first is race vs class. Yes, having "Yakuza" instead of just having "thieves" is kind of dumb. There are some Far East magic users who would be incredibly close to Wizards from my limited understanding, so they would be very easy to simply play as wizards. Maybe as a sub-class that gives them a few unique abilities to work within the lore. However, taking a spiritfolk race like say, Tanuki and just saying "well, Tanuki are dwarves" misses every point and is just baffling if you know anything about the two different depictions. You would be far better off just writing a new Tanuki race than trying to shoe-horn in one of the existing races. And, things like Elves and Dwarves... I don't know if there is something that is a good enough analogue to them to make the transition. However, in the reverse of that. Naga are a thing in myths over there, and taking the DnD naga and expanding it to encompass the Far East Naga myths, in a similiar manner to how Theros expanded Dryads to give us a plethora of nymphs and fey spirits, is a brilliant idea. The Oni? Well, some lore changes needed, but a lot of good stuff that might be close enough that a small lore blurb in the book and a new sub-type or two and you've got excellent ground to work with. There are some aspects in the monsters, and maybe even the races, that are close enough, they could be trivially updated to fit. Genasi are pretty easy to fit into any settings, since "mortal born of elements" is pretty easy. Yuan-ti could be reworked into some of the different Naga races. Driders are almost there for some depictions of Jurogumo that I've seen. Tengu might be able to be reworked from AarcrockraBut other stuff is just not going to work that way. Tanuki and Kitsune would really need their own write-ups to be player races. Things like the Ōmukade or the Harionago  would need their own stat-blocks, because we don't really have anything like them in the books so far.</blockquote>

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