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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmartkdr2" data-source="post: 7973144" data-attributes="member: 7017304">For all of this: I actually think you can still get a book out of it. It would just be closer in content-balance to SCAG than Xanathar's.Lots of gazetteer-type stuff about the setting: people, politics, history, weird places to have adventures in, et al. The meat of the book will just be introducing and explaining the setting to people. This is also the part that needs the most sensitive editing, but there's a lively DnD community in Japan to tap to get that part right, and it shouldn't be too hard to find people for the other parts.In the near-back you'd have 20-25 pages of new player options: some of which will be variants (ie official unarmored cleric) and refluffing advice, but you'd probably add a couple subclasses and some spells and backgrounds. maybe a weapon or two (neither nunchaku nor kusari-gama are well represented in the current rules) - not much, but some. If you want to make sure it sells, add a new base class for shugenza. The main difference between this new book and SCAG would be monsters: SCAG added zero, this book will need quite a few. 50+ pages, most likely. But you can't do the theme with stats for kappa and White Snake Lady. Of course, this would be just as true for any specific setting they pick: it's not an argument for Kara-Tur so much as a rough plan for an Oriental Adventures book for 5e.</blockquote>