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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1254459" data-attributes="member: 2205">Well, I'd recommend ditching the shugenja entirely.  I think the shugenja is the most blatant "Rokuganism" in the book.That's, again, not a question about removing Rokugan from OA, but of integrating OA into a "regular" campaign.  That's a completely different kettle of fish, deserving of it's own discussion and probably it's own thread.  I'd recommend against mixing the two books together for the most part; especially in terms of mixing the spell lists.No, spirit type is spirit type.  In an OA campaign, your traditional fey don't make much sense.  Trying to retrofit spirit creatures into fey don't make much sense, IMO.Absolutely!  Why not?No effect at all.See, again, this doesn't have anything to do with removing Rokugan, and a lot more to do with integrating Greyhawk.  My preference would be to keep an oriental themed game be oriental themed and not cross over to begin with.  The outsider paradigm of the OA book doesn't have anything in common with Greyhawk "Great Wheel" cosmology.Not exactly as constituted, at least as far as I know.  Especially the samurai caste aspect of the shugenja.The core races include a lot of creatures that are not Japanese in influence too, though.  Well at least a few.  The Varana, for example, or the wu-jen are not Japanese.I don't recall seeing that many of the spells were honor-influencing, so removing honor should be relatively simple to do.  Then again, removing alignment from D&D isn't really all that hard either.See, that's the real thing, isn't it?  I'd not be in favor of meshing OA and D&D together, because it obliviates the whole point of playing OA in the first place; to have the Asian flavor.Rokugan classes work just fine.  Courtier isn't just a PC version of the Aristocraft; he's less effective in combat than the aristocrat, but much, much more effective in social situations.  He's really a pretty unique animal.  Ninjas would work fine as well; they may in fact be little more than slightly underpowered fighter/rogue variants.</blockquote>

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