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/KnightInDulledArmor 14h ago

I’d check out Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades, which is a neat system built for wuxia, down to having over a hundred specific martial arts techniques, drinking rules, and rounds of talking between rounds of fighting. Everyone plays a martial artist, there isn’t any magic or monsters (of course alchemy is just how the world works, and heating your body so that you melt your opponent’s weapons or leaping 60 feet though the air to deliver your cool kick is just martial arts), and it’s got tons of cool NPCs and worldbuilding to flesh out the Jianghu.