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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4460136" data-attributes="member: 65637">But nobody is saying that any of that should be OUT of the book (Well, except maybe the mecha <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)We're saying HAVE all the cool stuff, but don't half-ass it and make it all one big nation/culture.  Spread the stuff out.  HAVE the cool Japanese stuff - and Clavis, I don't mean everything has to be gritty and realistic, it can be fantasized - but have it in the vaguely Japanese-esque area.  Have the cool Indian stuff, but don't have it casually strolling around in that vaguely Japanese-esque area.Again, I'm not saying "NO COOL STUFF, GRITTY AND REALISM ONLY."  I'm saying, don't half-ass it.  Spread the stuff out.  Which sounds more fun - one place with every eastern trope in existance just hanging out, or having those tropes battle each other.Granted, I would be lowering my eyebrows if things got TOO fantastic, like throwing in mechas and samurai who cut them in half with one blow <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />.  But it's a fantasy game, so fantasy is...well, pretty much required.  While I wasn't that big of a fan of much of the Oriental Adventures book, I still had a nice place in my heart for the quite unrealistic Iaijutsu Master.</blockquote>

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