How do you distinguish your "not china" from your "not japan" and actual chinain gurps ig
Whether they can or can't talk about what happened on Tiananmen Square
Play gacha games, which usually do their best to cleanly separate fantasy China and fantasy Japan.
>>98321314If it's a kungfu fightan magic game, thenChina>medical cannibalismJapan>strictly, exclusively recreational cannibalism for the love of the game, at least if they're human
>>98321366recreation is good for your health
>>98321366you sure it's healthy? prions are a bitch
>>98321314Read GURPS China and GURPS Japan.
>>98321314china>FUCK YOU WHOLE ANCESTORjapan>FUCK MY WHOLE ANCESTOR
Presence of youkai and bakemono? Japan. Presence of wushu that lets you fly and cast elemental spells? Japan.
>>98321314Ask the worldbuilding general, nevergames.
>>98321501I meant China for the wushu one, fuck my stupid retard life.
>>98321314By not giving a single fuck about real world politics and just putting whatever the fuck I think is cool into my games.
>>98321545Thinking we're talking about politics instead of cultural elements and motifs is kind of sad. I pity you.
>>98321392Prions are basically a meme.People always bring up kuru, but do you have ANY fucking idea how rare this shit is and what long string of circumstances it takes to happen at all?Meanwhile, mad cow disease was this shit on industrial tier and required culling entire herds without ability to use them for anything at all, but it took conscious effort to cause it and deliberate action to ignore it.
>>98321314>distinguish... why would you?
>>98321599A Swamp Kraken getting elected president seems more like Florida than East Asia, innit?
>>98321314Not!China either has thick curved swords and slender straight swordsNot!Japan only has slender curved swords of varying lengths except for the one Not!Japanese character who has an extra thicc straight sword that's basically a guillotine on a stick
>>98321597It applies either way. I don't give a fuck if not!Asia in my setting has Chinese and Japanese stuff existing together. It's a game of pretend.
>>98321637It's not about being woke or inclisive, it's because they're rad in different ways.
>>98321703based
>>98321637>Chinese and Japanese stuff existing together.>It's a game of pretend.Or Korea.
>>98321321>china gets in touch with Friedman>liberalizes to be more like the West>the people hate it because the freer the market the more enslaved the people>the people must die for impeding the profits of the richTale as old as time.
>>98321314By not having a China.
>fake chinamainland country, has snake dragons and eunuchs>fake japanisland country, has ninja and samurai
>>98321321>Whether they can or can't talk about what happened on Tiananmen SquareSo how to distinguish your China from your Taiwan?
>>98321314but my entire setting is not china
>>98321314I like her yak
>>98322264If the not!Chinese speakers have really weird-looking names compared to the standard not!Chinese, of course
>>98321608What is the Florida of East Asia?Also, Isee great trade opportunities betweeen teh Princess Mononoke, Fat Demon Tyrants and Kraken President, all these innocent grils from the woodlands will get to go on an exciting adeventure!
>>98322605>>98322264Used to be the case that you could ask them for their Englishname.
>>98323103Siam
Fantasy China: Wuxia/Xianxia land. Taoists, monks, cultivation, flying on swords.Fantasy Japan: Naruto ninja land and wandering samurai. Omnyoudo and yokai if you want to be more culturedIt's not that hard at all
>>98323163You forgot to give steampunk mechas and monster capturing cards to japanAnd terracota warriors and monkey people to China
