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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9136301" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Today the isekai is a popular subgenre, but lots of times more focused into comedy, or the main characters are OP. We would need a new PC specie based in Korean folklore. I suspect WotC would rather to use names from English instead others, for examples spiritfolk instead shen, or beastshaper instead hengeyokai. Of course it would be better with more classes, for example the "cultivator" but if there isn't yet a psionic mystic class, then others will arrive later. How to explain it with any example? Apologies if it may sound so stereotyped but let's imagine somebody who wants to set up a franchised pizza-shop in a Japanase city. The food can be very good, but the Japanese would rather to eat okonomiyaki. Then the business to survive has to serve its own version of okonomiyaki. And if the franchise wanted to serve okonomiyaki in its locals in USA West Coast, they should change some things because American client would rather other type of tastes. Nobody is right or wrong, only people from different place have got different preferences. But here the market adventage is the TTRPGs are selling mainly the pieces, or the ingredients, and then you choose how is going to be. The first step should the hengeyokai as PC specie (because it is the most iconic and relatively popular), but let's remember ears in the sides of the skull, not in the top (vertical canal ears? Dogsand other animals have L-shape canal ears, that is different). A title in D&DBeyond should be enough. Other point is some 3PPs have created their own version of creatures from Asian folklore. I wouldn't be totally surprised if the IP "Legend of the Five Rings" was acquired by Hasbro, or maybe a merger Hasbro-Embracer Group. Then a rebooted version of Rokugan would be added to D&D Multiverse. But I suspect WotC would rather to start from zero with a Japan-inspired setting like Kamigawa. My theory is the bet will be for a setting with a look of Western culture (maybe some touchs of Russia), but with a lot of essence of Asian cultures. Other option, and maybe the closest one to become reality, is licencing 3PP settings based in other cultures in D&DBeyond. Then if somebody was offended or like this, then it wouldn't business by WotC really but by that 3PP.</blockquote>

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