42
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by lurkerlady@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

Tian Xia is their 'Asian fusion' continent, has a lot of different regions and governments all dreamt up by a very wide cast of writers in Asia, but most seem to be from Shanghai and Hong Kong.

I am told that if you speak some Asian languages, these are very fun names to look at.

Big bads:

cw: spider

cw: spider

cw: spider

super saiyan cat

adorable forest fey

tanuki!!

racially diverse 'western' explorers and refugees, technically a 'hong kongesque' situation without brutal colonialism:

this is qin shi huangdi except the elixir actually worked

qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

before anyone gets weirded out by the elves, all pathfinder elves look like this, even ones from 'western' or 'african' areas

fantasy korea

sassy snake deity

![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/413465a6-e269-4dec-9627-fcab9e5e6d5f.png

dragons

top 43 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@Othello@hexbear.net @Pluto@hexbear.net might be of interest to /c/em_poc

pathfinder seems to have been very good with poc rep, they also have a fantasy africa continent that was done very well. main adventure there is basically not shit harry potter in fantasy timbuktu, main antagonist is an african mythological figure iirc. ap is called Strength of Thousands

[-] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Actually was gonna shout out the 2e Mwangi Expanse & Strength of Thousands before I saw your comment lol. Love the fantasy Africa analogue (big fan of the Anadi!) and how they avoided so many of the problems D&D's fantasy Africa analogue had in its portrayals. Haven't read anything on the east Asia stuff, looks dope though

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

"Latino" or "mixed" or "Turkish" analogues would be nice!

[-] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

i would KILL for some MENA stuff

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Pathfinder has northern Garund and Qadira and the Kelesh Empire, but I don't actually know enough about those regions to speak about how they're written.

The iconic cleric is a gay Qadiran woman who is married to the iconic rogue (an elf)

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Pathfinder has Arcadia as its America-analog. I don't know anything about it except that they have guns and are featured a lot in the book covering that. Seems very underdeveloped otherwise. https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Arcadia

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Developing this more would be interesting!

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

I think its hinted theyre going to be doing some Arcadia content soonish, its one of the regions that is very undeveloped

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

that would be nice

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Just to add clarity to your comment, Arcadia is the pre-colonisation America analogue, as Andoran is the USA analogue.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Thank you for this!

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

I wanna play a frog-folk/frog-kin so bad! I'll ask my DM if I can roll one up for my backup character in the current campaign.

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

when they release the tian xia character guide in august i think frog guys are supposed to get some new feats

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago
[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yeah this is a specific ancestry of humans that achieved a higher state of being through reincarnation and try to help people to reach an even higher state of enlightenment (there are holy and good creatures in the monster codex that result of this), historically have a bent towards holy actions and lawful good stuff. you can just be a normal human mother and randomly give birth to a samsaran

https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Samsaran https://www.d20pfsrd.com/races/other-races/uncommon-races/arg-samsaran/

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Lawful good is 'ight.

In fact, I tend to like it quite a bit.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Chinese comrades, where you at?

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

theres a faction that is about overthrowing the dragon monarchy

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

And I'm already in it!

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

other fun things: rituals that give you free feats if you beat their 'trial', one of which is a ritual to create an elixir of immortality that poisons you, if you live through the poison, you become immortal, but if you break anathema and are past your normal lifespan, you die. anathema is 2-3 things you and the DM come up with that you cant do, like touching someone related to you, touching jade, eating meat, etc. if you do die in combat or something in a year youll descend from heaven and possess someone

a handful of new deities that use new weapons and spells

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago
[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Oh God, I love the colors, they just pop!

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

"Hong Kong."

Another Hong Kong analogue?

internet-delenda-est

Ah well

I'm still interested!

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yeah, if it makes you feel better theyre all descendants from refugees/explorers that showed up in ancient times. basically fantasy romans went exploring and intermingled with a lot of random places

there are some actual bad white people colonies that are explicitly unholy evil devil worshipers and slavers in fantasy africa, theres a holy goddess of vengeance and anticolonialism that looks cool as hell and helps people that fight them

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

That's fine by me, tbh.

I'm not that picky!

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

also added a bit about fantasy africa, there are actual colonies in pathfinder but all of them are founded by literal devil worshipers lol

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Literal devil worshippers?

lol Literally white Devils.

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

yeah theres some pirate campaigns where you try to interdict the devil worshipers supply lines, stuff like that. lot of content around them, theyre basically the big bads of the setting, along with some undead empires

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Oh nice, I do love "Asian" pirate lore.

[-] Babs@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Devil worshiping nazis, in fact. Cheliax isn't exactly subtle.

There's an old adventure path where you play a sort of resistance within the empire of Cheliax.

edit: yeah the devil part is very literal as well. Devils in Pathfinder are nuanced in that they are evil but also lawful, and it's entirely possible to play a Faust-like character who binds them without being evil. Queen Abrogail Thrune II is not like that at all.

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

interesting

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Queen Abrogail Thrune II

I think her full title gets the message across better: Her Infernal Majistrix Queen Abrogail II of the Thrice-Damned House of Thrune.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

alright tho they were phoning it in on Yjae

1 dome of the rock? nah its ALL dome

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Needs more spiders.

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 6 months ago

Whenever I see pathfinder stuff it makes me wish I still had my DND group together

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

the pathfinder version of fantasy China includes a parody of Maoist China lol

complete with Mao and Jiang Qing:

Following Lung Wa's collapse in 7106 IC, the rich bureaucrats, with the aid of a corrupt clergy, struggled to control the restless populace. In this era of political turmoil, Grandfather Pei, a scholar from a peasant background, began spreading the Pei philosophy of communism. Pei preached for equal treatment of all humanoids and demanded that prosperity be shared equally among all citizens. Gathering an army of peasants, workers, and other downtrodden folk, Grandfather overthrew the corrupt government and its puppets in the clergy in the Bachuan Revolution in 7126 IC. Thus independent, Grandfather restored to Pen Wa its original name, Bachuan, as a newly reformed republic. Though Grandfather Pei intended to bring a new era of peace and prosperity to Bachuan, the Pei philosophy proved much harder to implement than planned. The strict philosophy opposed religion and the private ownership of property, and enforced state control over the production and distribution of wealth. Beneath the Sun Chamber, the infamous Ministry of Peace and Harmony operated re-education camps to force its ideology on dissenters, and in later years instituted ideological purges to root out any who were not sufficiently zealous. Pei's failures of leadership resulted in an authoritarian government, suppression of religion, ideological purges, and the establishment of re-education camps. When Grandfather Pei died in 7168 IC, his young widow Pu Yae Men—better known as Grandmother Pei, and herself indoctrinated in Bachuan's re-education camps—implemented an even harsher vision with a revolutionary zeal untethered to Bachuan's troubled reality.

it even has a Deng Analog lol:

The Shui Jing reforms

Shui Jing was an oracular Tian-Shu woman who claimed to be a mathematician, and she possessed considerable social charms that quickly gained her favor among the Pei family. She united the factions long enough to propose a series of policy reforms that would change the shape of Bachuan:

The end of enforcement and official proselytizing of the Pei philosophy,

The division of Bachuan into six municipalities, one for each of the Sun Council's factions,

Reformed property ownership laws that could encourage private ownership and foreign investment, with a decade of minimal taxation on profits.

https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Bachuan

https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Communism

[-] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yeah i just read it lmao

and then the magical man deng showed up and everything was better blob-no-thoughts

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Man, Pathfinder continues to just be 2000% cooler than D&D.

this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
42 points (100.0% liked)

games

20529 readers
394 users here now

Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

Rules

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS