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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMSkarka" data-source="post: 1504424" data-attributes="member: 763">Ah...something up my alley!  (I designed the original Hong Kong Action Theatre! RPG, and my degree is in East Asian Languages and Cultures)Assuming that you're interested in doing wuxia-style fantasy, rather than just straight historical, the following links should be useful to you:<a href="http://www.heroic-cinema.com/eric/xia.html" target="_blank">Introduction to the Wuxia genre</a>-- Probably the best english-language definition out there, and good for getting your players on the same page.<a href="http://www.heroic-cinema.com/articles/wuxia.htm" target="_blank">A Five-part article about Wuxia fiction and film</a>, from the same site and equally excellent.  Good links hyper-texted into the article as well.<a href="http://www.spcnet.tv/jinyong/jyreadingroom.shtml" target="_blank">Jin Yong Reading Room</a> --fan translations of the novels of Jin Yong (aka Louis Cha), the top wuxia novelist whose work forms the basis for many wuxia films.I had seriously considered doing a D20 wuxia book, and had even announced a title, The Dao of Wuxia (which was reported by Polyhedron a couple of years back), but I ended up dropping it when Green Ronin announced that they were doing Dragon Fist...although, since DF still isn't on their schedule, I'm wondering if I just shouldn't go ahead....</blockquote>