Noticed there lots off people who design or like to write up monsters. I am writing up an oriental campaign and could use some help with 1st edition d&d oa conversions. If your interested please convert the monster to pathfinder, try not to do ones that have been converted (like kappas for instance). Thanks in advance.
Well not as D&D OA conversions, but the Rite Publishing Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG) has a number of racial guides (one race each) that covers: tengu, kappa, and hengeyokai, though korobokuru and kitsune are being added to our upcoming setting guide. Plus #30 Haunts for Kaidan include karakasa-obake and other unique Japanese monsters and undead. And the intro trilogy of modules, The Curse of the Golden Spear, includes a dozen or so additional Japanese monsters, as "wandering monsters" and "specific encounters" - only a couple of which made it to OA. These are monsters designed straight from the source material of Japanese folklore, and not a conversion of anyone else's published RPG material, including OA.
Being half Japanese and an amateur historian/folklorist, I've found that OA has lots of mistakes, misrepresentations and concepts pulled out of context losing their meaning. So Kaidan is my fix to be more authentic as a Japan analog. (For example no such thing as "spirit folk" in Japanese folklore).
The Kaidan setting has received praise from the original designer of Kosakura from the original Kara-Tur boxed set, many industry reviewers including Endzeitgeist, even a Buddhist bishop praised the settings use of the Buddhist Wheel of Life and Death reincarnation mechanic. So we've got fans.
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There's also a lot of oriental creatures in Bestiary 3.
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If you haven't seen The Year of Yokai! thread, you should.
Noticed there lots off people who design or like to write up monsters. I am writing up an oriental campaign and could use some help with 1st edition d&d oa conversions. If your interested please convert the monster to pathfinder, try not to do ones that have been converted (like kappas for instance). Thanks in advance.
I have been doing that of late. For the most part, I am still in the note taking stage, but I noticed one point that really jumped out at me for many of the Chinese demons as described in "Journey to the West": they can be adequately described as lycanthropes. I am planning to change the damage reduction, probably to jade or magic for animals that are only a thousand years old or so. For those that are substantially older, I'd go with jade and magic.
Oh, and one rather interesting fact I came across... It seems that modern peacocks are just a faint echo of their past greatness. Once upon a time, a peacock could inhale a human from 100 miles away. That might be a little much for most characters to deal with, so I have been planning to write them up as gargantuan at around CR 16 and 8 mythic ranks. Hypnotic tail feathers should be quite fun. :)
Well not as D&D OA conversions, but the Rite Publishing Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG) has a number of racial guides (one race each) that covers: tengu, kappa, and hengeyokai, though korobokuru and kitsune are being added to our upcoming setting guide. Plus #30 Haunts for Kaidan include karakasa-obake and other unique Japanese monsters and undead. And the intro trilogy of modules, The Curse of the Golden Spear, includes a dozen or so additional Japanese monsters, as "wandering monsters" and "specific encounters" - only a couple of which made it to OA. These are monsters designed straight from the source material of Japanese folklore, and not a conversion of anyone else's published RPG material, including OA.
Being half Japanese and an amateur historian/folklorist, I've found that OA has lots of mistakes, misrepresentations and concepts pulled out of context losing their meaning. So Kaidan is my fix to be more authentic as a Japan analog. (For example no such thing as "spirit folk" in Japanese folklore).
The Kaidan setting has received praise from the original designer of Kosakura from the original Kara-Tur boxed set, many industry reviewers including Endzeitgeist, even a Buddhist bishop praised the settings use of the Buddhist Wheel of Life and Death reincarnation mechanic. So we've got fans.
But... but... but... I LOVED playing spirit folk characters. So much, that my first 3rd Edition character was a spirit folk ranger.
Uhm, if you're interested the free e-zine Pathways #11 have "Poison dragon" template; the oni steals dragon's eggs and, then corrupt them to create poisonous and wingless dragons
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Nogitsune; they're basically shadow Kitsune.
Nekomata; these are two-tailed cat ghosts that wreak havoc on people.
Also, checkers this out:
Kitsune - Mythical Creatures Guide
Imagine the indignity of being a 1st-level commoner murdered by peacock inhalation from over the horizon.Noticed there lots off people who design or like to write up monsters. I am writing up an oriental campaign and could use some help with 1st edition d&d oa conversions. If your interested please convert the monster to pathfinder, try not to do ones that have been converted (like kappas for instance). Thanks in advance.
I have been doing that of late. For the most part, I am still in the note taking stage, but I noticed one point that really jumped out at me for many of the Chinese demons as described in "Journey to the West": they can be adequately described as lycanthropes. I am planning to change the damage reduction, probably to jade or magic for animals that are only a thousand years old or so. For those that are substantially older, I'd go with jade and magic.
Oh, and one rather interesting fact I came across... It seems that modern peacocks are just a faint echo of their past greatness. Once upon a time, a peacock could inhale a human from 100 miles away. That might be a little much for most characters to deal with, so I have been planning to write them up as gargantuan at around CR 16 and 8 mythic ranks. Hypnotic tail feathers should be quite fun. :)
Commoner? HA! Imagine the indignity of being a 10th level samurai killed by a peacock...