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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mantis" data-source="post: 5221981" data-attributes="member: 91706">I'd like to see a hardcover that covers Tian, Casmaron, and (especially) Vudra in as much detail as the Pathfinder Campaign Setting does for Avistan and northern Garund.  Alternately, if each of those regions is to be dealt with in a separate book, what I'd most like to see is Vudra.  As I wrote some time ago on the Paizo message boards, East Asian settings have been done near to death. At this point, it would be pretty difficult to do something recognizably rooted in the history and culture of China/Japan/Korea/Mongolia/Indochina that wouldn't closely resemble something we've already seen in Oriental Adventures, Kara-Tur, Rokugan, etc. Not saying it shouldn't be done, just that it's going to be tough to make it original while still having recognizable parallels to the real human cultures on which it's based (which is what the fans are looking for, as far as I can tell). So while I would doubtless buy and use a Tian supplement, the place I really want to see fully developed is Vudra.  The history and cultures of the Indian Subcontinent are every bit as ancient, rich, and varied as those of China and its cultural satellites (which is what Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Burma effectively are, whether they'd be willing to admit it or not), but they have been far less thoroughly explored in fantasy fiction and RPGs. Paizo could be the first company to do them justice. The hints we have so far look good, and I really hope to see at least a PF Companion, or preferably a hardcover campaign setting expansion detailing the lands and peoples of Vudra. I'd also like to second Steel Wind's call for a mass combat system.  One thing I always wanted that WoTC never gave us with 3E or 3.5 was an update to the old Battlesystem: full scale mass combat rules derived directly from the core rules, enabling the player to build armies of any creature for which he has a statblock, and include individual creatures and characters on the battlefield as heroes or commanders.</blockquote>

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