Pathfinder 1E O.A. 3x to Pathdinder

[gamerprinter]

you mean land based right? ... Rokugan has access to some significant beach front property.

I do like Kara-tur because of the amalgamation of the chief far-eastern cultures.

Yes, as in land based. I'm half Japanese and I have a strong belief that being an island nation is significant in making what Japan was historically, culturally, and how it maintained its feudal identity for so long. Even the Japanese perception of the supernatural and folklore is intrinsic to be a singular culture isolated on islands.

Not that I mind cultural amalgamations, but borrowing so little from other Asian cultures, makes Kara-Tur kind of Japan-China analog with satellite nods to other cultures. I'd rather see a full blown Ankor Wat setting, South East Asian setting with enough detail in each setting to give an honest nod to research done on those cultures. My design of Kaidan was to create a purely Japanese setting, including actual Japanese wizardly spellcasters (onmyoji) rather than wujen, for example, borrowed from Korean hedge witches concept, among many other things. In some ways, I wanted to 'fix' OA, correct things that were included in the various OA settings and rules since 1e.

You really ought to at least check out Way of the Samurai supplement, though designed with Kaidan in mind, it built for any low or high fantasy Asian setting, totally belonging to any OA game using PF. Two of the reviewers consider this the consummate guide on samurai.

 

[Nellisir]

you mean land based right?

Continental. The term is continental. Unless the Japanese have grown gills recently, Japan is land-based. It is not, however, continental.

(Wolf72, I just realized noticed where you're located. I drove right past Saratoga Springs Monday, on my way back to Ithaca from Middlebury.)

 

[Nellisir]

I'd rather see a full blown Ankor Wat setting, South East Asian setting with enough detail in each setting to give an honest nod to research done on those cultures.

I'd love to see this. I never had a lot of interest in Asian cultures, to be honest, but I always thought Southeast Asia got short shrift in OA...and then I married a half-Thai-Chinese from Bangkok, which tends to raise one's interest level (funny enough, my wife's aunt married a guy from Japan, so my wife and her siblings are half-Thai, with full Thai cousins on her father's side and a half-Japanese cousin on her mother's side. Her cousin is actually in Japan right now, posting lots of pictures on Facebook.)

 

[Wolf72]

Continental. The term is continental. Unless the Japanese have grown gills recently, Japan is land-based. It is not, however, continental.

(Wolf72, I just realized noticed where you're located. I drove right past Saratoga Springs Monday, on my way back to Ithaca from Middlebury.)

[bow]Continental[/bow] ...

(fun, fun drive! ... fyi: Northway drving = pass slowpoke left lane/middle lane drivers on the right ... just watch out for slowpoke right lane drivers. 'course this could be applied to about 95% of the CONTINENTAL US )