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Re: Received Complaints About My Own Twists on Fantasy Races
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04-20-2019, 03:42 AM | #43 | |
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04-20-2019, 02:01 PM | #44 | |
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04-20-2019, 02:44 PM | #45 |
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Re: Received Complaints About My Own Twists on Fantasy Races
That segues into one other thing I got ragged on a lot about my setting, specifically the Far East. At the time I came up with the world's Far East, "Eastern Adventures" was the big d20 book, which was simply L5Rd20...
When I said "China, not Japan", I had a lot of folks screaming "but... JAPAN! SAMURAI! NINJA!" at me. One even went so far as to say, "Japan is the whole of the Orient that matters." The debate still rages, a decade and a half later....
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04-20-2019, 03:22 PM | #46 |
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But Kung Fu! Pandas!
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04-20-2019, 04:34 PM | #47 |
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Re: Received Complaints About My Own Twists on Fantasy Races
And Hong Kong Theatre. As Xander said in Buffy S4, "Incompetently dubbed kung fu, our most valuable Chinese import." XD
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04-20-2019, 06:12 PM | #48 |
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Re: Received Complaints About My Own Twists on Fantasy Races
From the link you posted "It is the period of history when Scandinavian Norsemen explored Europe by its seas and rivers for trade, raids, colonization, and conquest. In this period, the Norsemen settled in Norse Greenland, Newfoundland, and present-day Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Normandy, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man, the Netherlands, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Italy. "
Wikipedia is also careful to make a distinction between those who went on ships to foreign lands to pillage/rape/burn/explore/cause general mayhem and those that stayed in Sweden, Denmark or Norway and didn't engage in those previously mentioned activities. Vikings were pirates. |
04-20-2019, 06:16 PM | #49 |
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Re: Received Complaints About My Own Twists on Fantasy Races
It also comes as a surprise to Americans when I and Icelander object to being called Scandinavian.
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04-21-2019, 12:37 AM | #50 |
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Re: Received Complaints About My Own Twists on Fantasy Races
Ooh, this is like the bit about parts of Canada or New Orleans being Latin America, but in reverse. (French is one of the Neo-Latin languages, but people seem to often forget that.)
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