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Just some more of the non-furry stuff which I posted to DA. Here're some D&D types from more atypical backgrounds - a monk trying to vaguely fit in with a genero-European D&D setting, and an Arctic type wizardess (angekok).
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A lot of interesting background can come from trying to explain why there are monks in D&D!
Btw I've started beta-testing a really cool new indie game with my gaming group. It's called "Storming the Wizard's Tower", by Vincent Baker of lumpley games ("Dogs in the Vineyard" is his most famous game, and I'm running it too).
It's his take on D&D, and it's really neat in spite of the horribly underwritten rules (the purpose of the beta is to work out what he needs to explain more clearly). For me it's doing a good job of recapturing the feel of my first D&D games, which, yay.
You can find a version of the rules here.
There's also a .pdf floating around somewhere which I can send you if you're interested and can't find it.
Btw I've started beta-testing a really cool new indie game with my gaming group. It's called "Storming the Wizard's Tower", by Vincent Baker of lumpley games ("Dogs in the Vineyard" is his most famous game, and I'm running it too).
It's his take on D&D, and it's really neat in spite of the horribly underwritten rules (the purpose of the beta is to work out what he needs to explain more clearly). For me it's doing a good job of recapturing the feel of my first D&D games, which, yay.
You can find a version of the rules here.
There's also a .pdf floating around somewhere which I can send you if you're interested and can't find it.
As for Xiaolin styled monks in D&D;
China got un-isolated in a big way early on in the Ming dynasty. The Ming emperors inherited a batch of Yuan dynasty hunting reserves, and they sold the land off in parcels. The huge surplus they got out of that helped them fund Zheng He's voyages, which went as far as Africa.
Marco Polo reached China during the Yuan dynasty, not just as an isolated incident, but as part of a much longer term thing where Western Europe had been dealing off and on with Mongols for years.
And then there's the events of Journey to the West. Or the way a Buddha turned up as a trade item in an 11th century Norse settlement. Heck, it's been suggested that gong fu is basically some weird Chinese interpretation of kalaripayattu; there have been paintings of dark skinned guys teaching Chinese guys.
And if there was that much medieval contact between China and the outside world, it's pretty reasonable that there'd be a constant back and forth of people and ideas between fantasized European and fantasized Chinese settings. Who would be better able to spearhead pseudo-Chinese attempts to investigate this new area, translate writings, and learn more about its exotic peoples than a batch of monks?
China got un-isolated in a big way early on in the Ming dynasty. The Ming emperors inherited a batch of Yuan dynasty hunting reserves, and they sold the land off in parcels. The huge surplus they got out of that helped them fund Zheng He's voyages, which went as far as Africa.
Marco Polo reached China during the Yuan dynasty, not just as an isolated incident, but as part of a much longer term thing where Western Europe had been dealing off and on with Mongols for years.
And then there's the events of Journey to the West. Or the way a Buddha turned up as a trade item in an 11th century Norse settlement. Heck, it's been suggested that gong fu is basically some weird Chinese interpretation of kalaripayattu; there have been paintings of dark skinned guys teaching Chinese guys.
And if there was that much medieval contact between China and the outside world, it's pretty reasonable that there'd be a constant back and forth of people and ideas between fantasized European and fantasized Chinese settings. Who would be better able to spearhead pseudo-Chinese attempts to investigate this new area, translate writings, and learn more about its exotic peoples than a batch of monks?
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