Quote from: ConanMKOff the top of my head:
Sahasra, land of 1,000 cities by Dog Soul Publishing (PDF)

Mindshadows by Green Ronin Publishing

1st is pretty good, though skimpy. More a gazetteer, though there's an adventure for it. Mindshadows I got for free as a 3.5 is here! giveaway. Like the art by the main Palladium Fantasy artist and if you like Psionics in a setting this would be cool. I used the first to help supplement my Tekumel stuff and if I used 3.x psionics and didn't already dig Tekumel I'd have have given the 2nd more of a chance.

oWoD covered India in at least the Wraith and either their Asian vampire game or Changeling books. But just in a "over here there's this stuff:" (couple of paragraphs follow) way.

There was some Indian RPG in the works a few years back that was supposed to do this all justice, had some really good artwork (I remember FIGHTAN PHANTS :keke: :cool: ) but I never heard anything more of it. Don't think it's the preview pdf above.

Quote from: noismsI think thanks to the ridiculous "it might offend Hindus!!!!!!1" derailing it's been irretrievably ruined as a source of information, but what did I expect from rpg.net?

What they need is some good old fashion comic love :

http://store.naturalnirvana.com/amchkailclfr.html

An interested designer could base his game on the above.

Thanks Casey, I'll check it out.

Regards,
David R

Quote from: Casey777The web enhancement for 3E's Oriental Adventures is IIRC a fantasy India of about 5 city states. Hey, at least it's free.
http://www.aquela.com/roleplaying/OA/mahasarpa.html

The link on WotC's site redirects to the 4E page currently. :mad:

Hm. I didn't know about that. Thanks for the linkage.

Quote from: MoonHunterTo be honest, running them in a "Fantasy Japan" that have as much in common to one period of Japan, like most "Common Fantasy" has in common with the Middle Ages of Europe, is much easier. Thus you have "all that Japanese stuff" that your players recognize from movies and such (mashed together from different eras). We have Samurai, Katana, Sushi, Nobles active with bow and horse, Chinese invaders (or the threat), Bhuddism, Shintoism, Noh theatre, plus all those great spirit beings and oni.

Similar to the "literary" approach that Pendragon takes with the history of Britain, relying on legend and folklore to set the tone of the campaign, one can take a literary approach to Japanese history, too.  There's a huge body of literature from kabuki theater, where the stories are set in the Heian-Kamakura period, but, like so many of the Arthurian legends, the details are totally anachronistic, drawing in setting pieces from the era in which the plays were written.  There's an honest-to-goodness literary precedent for doing this in your campaign.

Back to the matter of an Indian/Vedic game, dear God, the RPG.net thread got totally blind-sided by the whole living religion thing.

!i!

Quote from: noismsI think thanks to the ridiculous "it might offend Hindus!!!!!!1" derailing it's been irretrievably ruined as a source of information, but what did I expect from rpg.net?

I'm sorry I contributed to the derailing, but I find the idea that no RPGs about India are made because they might offen Hindus ridiculous, so I couldn't help trying to refute that.

SJG was making a GURPS Supplement about India, but unfortunately it got cancelled. A pity, I'd have bought that in a heartbeat. There is a document in the internet which supposedly is the playtesting document of GURPS India. Here it is:

There's a small web add on for Oriental Adventures that is Indian inspired but there's not much to it:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20011019a

Quote from: ClaudiusI'm sorry I contributed to the derailing, but I find the idea that no RPGs about India are made because they might offen Hindus ridiculous, so I couldn't help trying to refute that.

SJG was making a GURPS Supplement about India, but unfortunately it got cancelled. A pity, I'd have bought that in a heartbeat. There is a document in the internet which supposedly is the playtesting document of GURPS India. Here it is:

Oh, don't worry, I contributed to it myself by getting sucked into the silliness and trying to refute it too.

Thanks for the link! I've only played one session of GURPS in my life, but they really had a knack for good sourcebooks.

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but I have tuned up some more stuff.

The Star of Kolhapur (an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition RPGA tournament adventure set in mythic India)

The Complete book of Rakshasas by Goodman Games has a Yogi class in it that is supposed to be pretty good and appeared in Monte Cook's "Year's Best d20"

A Magical Society: Silk Road from Expeditious Retreat Press could be handy in an India based setting.

Dragon magazine
Issue 225 has 2e character kits from India.
Issue 226 contains 2e spells from India.
Issue 189 contains 2e stats for weapons from India.
Issue 229 contains 2e magic items from India.

Hey Pundit didn't you post a thread asking if there was an interest in a Hindu based RPG and I posted saying that I didn't think there was a market?
Well looks like I was mistaken.

An Indian fantasy game would rock. It would definitely put Exalted to shame.

I have the old BECMI D&D Hollow World adventure 'Night Storm', set in an Indian-type setting, which is quite good and contains enough info to use the setting in a game.

I think actual Hindu mythology is really complex, though, and not particularly suitable for translating into a playable RPG.  Plus you may get to offend people!   {I've acquired a degree of reverence for Ganesha myself, ever since I saw his golden statue in a shop window in my local high street}.

Perhaps. If you keep it to the gods becoming mortal and smiting evil with awesome weapons and special techniques, everything ought to be good. Throw in snake, bird, and monkey people and you're like halfway to something resembling D&D.

I'm very slowly fiddling with this idea, if I keep at it, someday my own fantasy-India setting might be released, you never know.

RPGPundit

Quote from: S'mon;232845Plus you may get to offend people!  

I dunno. Demons and devils and other quasi-Christian bits and pieces don't offend Christians generally speaking, so I don't see why Hindus should get offended. If they do, they're idiots, just like Christians who worried about Devils in D&D were idiots!

Having said that, I've always found it odd that in D&D you could encounter genuine real-world Chinese, Indian and Japanese Gods (they were written up in, for example, On Hallowed Ground), but not Jehovah/Allah.

Quote from: noisms;232969I've always found it odd that in D&D you could encounter genuine real-world Chinese, Indian and Japanese Gods (they were written up in, for example, On Hallowed Ground), but not Jehovah/Allah.

No Allah? What kinds of religions were in Al-Qadim then? (Never having read it myself, I have no idea)