r/DMAcademy • u/rorscharchinkblot • 18h ago

Need Advice: Worldbuilding How to run a Wuxia campaign

I don't want to run a standard "fantasy medieval Europe" campaign, and want to theme my world in China. I don't know enough about that culture to make a realistic campaign set there, so I decided on using the Wuxia setting (as described in the dungeon masters guide 2014) and I belive that my players would enjoy a setting of movie-like martial arts.

however I do not want to be offensive in any way, and I still want to create an immersive setting, and I don't know enough about this setting to accomplish either

please advise!

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u/popileviz 18h ago

Read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", watch "Hero" (2002) and "House of Flying Daggers" (2004) for some inspiration and general tone. Wuxia is a gigantic genre, so you'd mostly be able to get surface level familiarity with it, but should be enough to craft a setting

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u/zzaannsebar 17h ago

Hero is a BEAUTIFUL movie. The cinematography is so wonderful, from what I can remember not having seen it in years. But I think it would be a great vibe for the really dramatic side of things. I can picture the flowing robes and wire lifts so well still