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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8493153" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>My preferred alternate title for <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17334/Oriental-Adventures-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Oriental Adventures</a> is Katanas & Kung Fu. It is mostly Samurai and Ninja focused with an excellent 1e martial arts system that goes beyond Japanese styles like Karate. The Kara Tur part of OA is incredibly small, it is a book of mechanics which are mostly Japanese fantasy focused (classes and honor) with explicit setting being a very minor part. It is not until you get the later separate <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17321/KaraTur-The-Eastern-Realms-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Kara Tur</a> supplement that you have the Fantasy Chinese Shou Lung as a big area (along with two fantasy Japanese areas IIRC) with mostly Japanese samurai and honor as mechanics from OA where the mismatch of applying samurai honor codes becomes fairly glaring.</p><p></p><p>Mythic Nipponese Adventures would have been fine in my view as well to go along with the Dragonlance Adventures, Greyhawk Adventures, Forgotten Realms Adventures hardcover series titling theme.</p><p></p><p>Being Japanese focused is not really problematic in my view. See <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3564/Legend-of-the-Five-Rings-1st-edition?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Legend of the Five Rings </a>which is fantasy Japanese focused with some other East Asian stuff thrown in as well. I really enjoyed reading the 3e d20 adaptation <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/25724/Rokugan?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Rokugan</a>.</p><p></p><p>Warhammer being focused on Fantasy German Holy Roman Empire and Castle and Crusades Airdhe having a lot of French naming conventions do not seem problematic to me either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8493153, member: 2209"] My preferred alternate title for [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17334/Oriental-Adventures-1e?affiliate_id=17596']Oriental Adventures[/URL] is Katanas & Kung Fu. It is mostly Samurai and Ninja focused with an excellent 1e martial arts system that goes beyond Japanese styles like Karate. The Kara Tur part of OA is incredibly small, it is a book of mechanics which are mostly Japanese fantasy focused (classes and honor) with explicit setting being a very minor part. It is not until you get the later separate [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17321/KaraTur-The-Eastern-Realms-1e?affiliate_id=17596']Kara Tur[/URL] supplement that you have the Fantasy Chinese Shou Lung as a big area (along with two fantasy Japanese areas IIRC) with mostly Japanese samurai and honor as mechanics from OA where the mismatch of applying samurai honor codes becomes fairly glaring. Mythic Nipponese Adventures would have been fine in my view as well to go along with the Dragonlance Adventures, Greyhawk Adventures, Forgotten Realms Adventures hardcover series titling theme. Being Japanese focused is not really problematic in my view. See [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3564/Legend-of-the-Five-Rings-1st-edition?affiliate_id=17596']Legend of the Five Rings [/URL]which is fantasy Japanese focused with some other East Asian stuff thrown in as well. I really enjoyed reading the 3e d20 adaptation [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/25724/Rokugan?affiliate_id=17596']Rokugan[/URL]. Warhammer being focused on Fantasy German Holy Roman Empire and Castle and Crusades Airdhe having a lot of French naming conventions do not seem problematic to me either. [/QUOTE]
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