🎲🐲 Why Oriental Adventures Feels So Different from the Rest of AD&D

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• FA

  @FatalDevotee1 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Shogun sparked my love of Asian culture, art and history.

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• BL

  @blowfish3 · 9 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0en66157Cs&amp;t=1375">22:55</a> ‘Nippon’ is just the Japanese name for Japan.

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• KA

  @karlbolt7159 · 2 years ago

  I’m a kid in the 1980s. I’ve got a fever, and the only cure is Ninjas.

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• OX

  @oxylepy2 · 2 years ago

  The penanggalan is Malaysian, but it should be noted that the there are a ton of similar creatures in asian folk lore

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• KE

  @KevinSigman · 2 years ago

  Thank you for keeping D&amp;D (and TTRPG) history alive on YouTube, Martin. I appreciate your deep dives into the game and the history of the game we love to play.🤘

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• DO

  @Dolgan84 · 2 years ago

  For you kids who werent there, &nbsp;its hard to impress how HUGE Kung-Fu was in the 70s and Ninjas were in the 80s. Best i can equate it is superhero movies in the 2010s. There was a reason it was Teenage Mutant NINJA Turtles. <br><br>Also, please just try to understand that for the time, these books and movies were made (mostly) from a place of love. Yes, its cringe and has a fair amount of fetishization from a modern perspective but it was meant as respect and love of the material.<br><br>Believe it or not, in 30 years your kids will look back and think our current views on certain topics are SOOOOOO outdated. <br><br>(Insert Grandpa Simpson saying &quot;It will happen to you&quot; GIF here)

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• NE

  @neilcarder4893 · 2 years ago

  I loved it and the Japanese American kid who lived down the street sure seemed to as well.

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• MI

  @michaellarson938 · 2 months ago

  I use it a lot. &nbsp;In fact I am starting a campaign beginning with OA1 but also incorporating the night below

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• CD

  @cdfreester · 2 years ago (edited)

  My 2nd year in college, 1 of my gaming buddies introduced our group to the Bushido RPG. We played about 4-5 sessions. That was 1985. Later that year, Oriental Adventures came out and we played it a couple times but nothing after that. I pretty much exclusively played monks for the 1980&apos;s and 1990&apos;s, so I naturally gravitated towards this material. We fumbled with pronunciations, too.

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• AL

  @AllenGarvin · 1 year ago

  It was one of my favorite of the original rule books, but what was REALLY great was the followup Kara Tur boxed set, which was just brimming with great ideas for adventures! It didn&apos;t go in deep in any of them, just provided a lot of inspiration for campaign or adventure ideas. In that way it was way superior to Greyhawk or the later Forgotten Realms. Jeff Grub&apos;s OA module &quot;Mad Monkey&quot; was also a great deal of fun. I loosely used a lot of ideas from it for a campaign in &apos;89.

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• HA

  @halfelf1829 · 6 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0en66157Cs&amp;t=2442">40:42</a> To be fair, the orient was indeed mysterious and exotic for most people at the time

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• CO

  @ComplexCritical · 1 year ago (edited)

  Love this book, growing up as a martial artist, i had a lot of fun. The only people that were complaining about stereotyping were the normies back then, us gamers didn&apos;t care about what they have to say. This book was fantasy Asia so i had no problem with some of the &quot;inaccuracies&quot; in the book, nobody cared. I didn&apos;t let real world historical events effect on how I played my games, never had and never will.

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