D&D General Kara Tur 5e

[Shades of Eternity]

What's the PRC?

People's Republic of China.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

ok question

How much can you actually do when writing up a fictional China before you trigger the PRC?

I've had this writeup for my own work on my hard drive for years that I was itching to post, but been hesitant to avoid ending up on a list.

Depends, on where you live and do you interact with Chinese officials. I think I remember an incident of Chaosium getting some books printed in China pulped by the authorities over references to people like Zhou Enlai.
If you are not likely to interact with the authorities there you should be safe enough. I really doubt that they have the resources to go after everyone in every country that writes something they do not approve of. They are probably aware of the Streisand effect.

 

[JConstantine]

Well, there’s a lot there. The original drew on 70s/80s martial arts films mostly (Japanese/US ninja films and Shaw Brothers kung fu) and of course the state of the medium has moved on. Here are some media which are both authentic and well known:

- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000): Not really very recent but the best and most famous distillation of the wuxia genre for this century.

- Shogun (2024): As mentioned above, for Sengoku Japan.

- Alchemy of Souls (2022): Probably the best known Korean medieval fantasy series, comes with lots of worldbuilding and Korean fantasy tropes, available on Netflix. Basing Koryo on this series would be absolutely fine by me.

- The Untamed (2019): A relatively well known Netflix xianxia drama, with the bonus of being very gay (danmei). There are loads of these, though.

- The Apothecary Diaries (2023): A Japanese anime series set in a mixed (mostly Ming Chinese but also quite Japanese and Korean) East Asian medieval setting, also on Netflix.

One thing I'd add to this list is Blue Eye Samurai (2023).

Actually, as bad as a sequel it is to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I think Sword of Destiny is good inspiration for wuxia-inspired RPGs.