Then how do you explain the gangbusters sales of "Legends of the Five Rings"? I know the card game had something to do with it, but it was a damn popular game.
To clarify however, I was more questioning the absence amongst the Indie games movement rather than why Wizards of the Coast or White Wolf haven't done a Chinese Detective Game. There's plenty of small press stuff getting wide circulation these days that has no problem with odd or complex cultures. In the age of niche gaming (which we are in now, and likely for a very long while to come) there are easily rules for exceptions.
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Date: 2009-09-15 11:10 am (UTC)To clarify however, I was more questioning the absence amongst the Indie games movement rather than why Wizards of the Coast or White Wolf haven't done a Chinese Detective Game. There's plenty of small press stuff getting wide circulation these days that has no problem with odd or complex cultures. In the age of niche gaming (which we are in now, and likely for a very long while to come) there are easily rules for exceptions.