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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7600456" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><p>The thing is, Rokugan is very narrowly focused on what it does. So if you like what it does, go for it. Kara-Tur is more like the Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk of fantasy Asia. It gives you <em>all</em> the stuff to work with. If you like having more stuff, go with Kara-Tur.</p><p></p><p>Since you have the 3e OA, just look through the list of monsters to see the large number of cool monsters they have that <em>aren't in Rokugan</em>. And that's just a subset of all the cool monsters they made for Kara-Tur. Same goes with the character races at the beginning. And then you've got the really cool "shaman" class, which is the 3e take on the old 1e shukenja (name changed for obvious reasons) that represents the cleric substitute (since all classes in 1e OA were substitutes for the PHB classes) and the wu-jen, and the sohei.</p><p></p><p>If someone is thinking, "I want to do a D&D fantasy Asia," and picks up that OA book, unless something about the Rokugan material really jumps out at them, they're likely to look at it and think, "Why would I give up so much to bother with this Rokugan stuff"? I really don't even think they should have put Rokugan in that book--which I'm sure they did just because they had the IP and could.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 7600456, member: 6677017"] The thing is, Rokugan is very narrowly focused on what it does. So if you like what it does, go for it. Kara-Tur is more like the Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk of fantasy Asia. It gives you [I]all[/I] the stuff to work with. If you like having more stuff, go with Kara-Tur. Since you have the 3e OA, just look through the list of monsters to see the large number of cool monsters they have that [I]aren't in Rokugan[/I]. And that's just a subset of all the cool monsters they made for Kara-Tur. Same goes with the character races at the beginning. And then you've got the really cool "shaman" class, which is the 3e take on the old 1e shukenja (name changed for obvious reasons) that represents the cleric substitute (since all classes in 1e OA were substitutes for the PHB classes) and the wu-jen, and the sohei. If someone is thinking, "I want to do a D&D fantasy Asia," and picks up that OA book, unless something about the Rokugan material really jumps out at them, they're likely to look at it and think, "Why would I give up so much to bother with this Rokugan stuff"? I really don't even think they should have put Rokugan in that book--which I'm sure they did just because they had the IP and could. [/QUOTE]
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