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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9135868" data-attributes="member: 6802378">I guess an anime-inspired D&D sourcebook is possible, but maybe with other name, for example "Isekai&Jianghu". But it is not only about designing or updating monsters, PC species and subclasses. They have to choose if they are going to add space for future classes with special game mechanics, as the psionic mystics, the martial adepts or the incarnum soulmelders. I don't know Hasbro's experience with the Chinese market. I suspect now China is like the company you don't want to be close but very soon there will be serious troubles. WotC worry too much about the design of the PC species, not only about specie traits but also they have to be an interesting concept. For example the shen/spiritfolk can't be only elves with almond-shaped eyes who can speak with certain animals. They need their own mark of identity. Now we don't know yet if korokuburu update would be allowed or it would be cultural apropiation. A Japanese D&D setting is not so interesting for Japanese players. It would be like a Texan who is sick or bored with the "Spaguetti-Western" movies. The industry of speculative fiction has to offer something new always.I don't know enough about South-Korea to give my opinion about D&D in the Korean market, but I suspect they are too jealous about their independence and fiction based in the culture of the no-very-friendly neighbours isn't wellcome. And the points of view can be different, the opinion by an Asian native about their own people, by an Asian descendent who has lived in America (USA or Hispanoamerica) or a foreign who has living in that country for years. You can search in youtube about people telling their own experience living in a country with a different culture. DMGuild allows sourcebooks style "Oriental Adventures", and even these publishers don't worry so much about the new rules of politica correction. Technically Kara-Tur, al-Quadim and Maztica are unlocked in DMGuild because they are FR spin-off. A possible strategy is a "Anime&Donghua" sourcebook being published not to sell more sourcebooks but to try in the market of fantasy light novel. But here self-publishing writters may not worry enoughly about the coherence with the rules (main characters becoming OP too soon, for example). Other option can be to create "chopsuey" fictional countries, intentionally mixing different cultures to avoid possible prejudices against the analogue ones from the real life.</blockquote>

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