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<blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8463242" data-attributes="member: 6761960"><p>Bad assumption. There are a lot more people outside European-descended populations for RPGs to spread to, you know...we <em>do</em> exist.</p><p></p><p>We make games too, and we're making more and more of them.</p><p></p><p>It's not <em>that</em> hard to figure out how to play people from a different culture. James Mendez Hodes wrote about it here:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2019/2/14/may-i-play-a-character-from-another-race[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Mendez has provided consulting on games like Avatar: Legends (you know, the single biggest RPG Kickstarter of all time) so I expect leaps and bounds in popular gaming practices in years to come.</p><p></p><p>Also, the rise in #RPGSEA games is creating RPG worlds based on our local cultures, for everyone to play in!</p><p></p><p>The Islands of Sina Una for 5e is up for pre-orders, for a start. <a href="https://hitpointpress.com/the-islands-of-sina-una/" target="_blank">The Islands of Sina Una</a></p><p></p><p>Balikbayan is written for everyone to play, although it's specifically about Filipino Elementals escaping enslavement in a techno-magical cyberpunk future.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/balikbayan[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Gubat Banwa is a deep dive into a fantasy version of the Filipino warring states period (like Viking sea raiding, but with sundangs and arquebuses).</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://makapatag.itch.io/gubat-banwa[/URL]</p><p></p><p>And A Thousand Thousand Islands: Reach of the Roach God, a system-agnostic adventure book set in the caverns of Southeast Asia, is doing gangbusters on KS right now!</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centaurgames/reach-of-the-roach-god-part-of-a-thousand-thousand-islands[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I make games too, based on my own Southeast Asian context, and publish them on itch:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://roleoverplaydead.itch.io/ech0[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://roleoverplaydead.itch.io/zfb-undercover-edition[/URL]</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://roleoverplaydead.itch.io/zoopolitan-skybridge-goons[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tun Kai Poh, post: 8463242, member: 6761960"] Bad assumption. There are a lot more people outside European-descended populations for RPGs to spread to, you know...we [I]do[/I] exist. We make games too, and we're making more and more of them. It's not [I]that[/I] hard to figure out how to play people from a different culture. James Mendez Hodes wrote about it here: [URL unfurl="true"]https://jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2019/2/14/may-i-play-a-character-from-another-race[/URL] Mendez has provided consulting on games like Avatar: Legends (you know, the single biggest RPG Kickstarter of all time) so I expect leaps and bounds in popular gaming practices in years to come. Also, the rise in #RPGSEA games is creating RPG worlds based on our local cultures, for everyone to play in! The Islands of Sina Una for 5e is up for pre-orders, for a start. [URL='https://hitpointpress.com/the-islands-of-sina-una/']The Islands of Sina Una[/URL] Balikbayan is written for everyone to play, although it's specifically about Filipino Elementals escaping enslavement in a techno-magical cyberpunk future. [URL unfurl="true"]https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/balikbayan[/URL] Gubat Banwa is a deep dive into a fantasy version of the Filipino warring states period (like Viking sea raiding, but with sundangs and arquebuses). [URL unfurl="true"]https://makapatag.itch.io/gubat-banwa[/URL] And A Thousand Thousand Islands: Reach of the Roach God, a system-agnostic adventure book set in the caverns of Southeast Asia, is doing gangbusters on KS right now! [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centaurgames/reach-of-the-roach-god-part-of-a-thousand-thousand-islands[/URL] I make games too, based on my own Southeast Asian context, and publish them on itch: [URL unfurl="true"]https://roleoverplaydead.itch.io/ech0[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://roleoverplaydead.itch.io/zfb-undercover-edition[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://roleoverplaydead.itch.io/zoopolitan-skybridge-goons[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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