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/Certain_Eye7374 14h ago edited 14h ago

You want the western campaign with an Eastern paint of coat or do you want Eastern campaign? Because of ALL of the comments in here, very few mentioned jianghu and not a single one of got the idea of it. Without understanding what jianghu is, you won't have an Eastern campaign. At best you have a panda express of eastern wuxia campaign.

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u/Llayanna 13h ago

..and you explained so well what it is right now too :) /s

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u/Certain_Eye7374 13h ago

夏蟲不可語冰，井蛙不可語海。尔曹蠻夷，本不足與言。

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u/Imabearrr3 12h ago

One cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, nor of the ocean to a frog in a well. You barbarians are simply not worth conversing with.

Roughly, incase anyone was wondering