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    Asian Monsters And Creatures

    Greetings!

    As some of you may know, I am developing and writing a bestiary of Asian creatures from folklore, legend, and myth. What I am asking now, is if anyone can direct me to any good souces for Asian folklore and the like. Or, any Asian monsters/creatures you'd like to see included. Or, any information you might have on any creatures.

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    i might have a few links

    okies awhile ago i was trying to flesh out a japanese setting for D&D and found a few links to some stuff.

    http://www.mangajin.com/mangajin/sam...sts/ghosts.htm
    this is a fairly good site with some general information.

    http://www.asianart.com/articles/rubin/

    some more stuff.

    http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythol.../articles.html

    not sure how useful this is but it gives short descriptions of some creatures gods demons ect.

    the oriental adventures either old new edition have many appropriate monsters for a japanese setting id just eliminate the stuff from the featured world setting and go with the normal stuff.

    what to watch
    InuYasha
    Hakkenden: legend of the dog warriors
    Ninja Scroll

    I must now go on a tagent. japanese mythology have many thousands of indevidual ghosts, goblins, demons, and other mean nasty things that would be extremely happy to evicerate innocent peasants, samurai, and the occassional budhist monk or shinto priest. And even then the intepretations of how those creatures look act and generally go about their business. So basically if you come up with a cool oogly googly monster then its ok. just make sure it all conforms to the basic mythology of japan and the social structure of it to.

    hope this is half way usefull

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