Magic Items of Kara-Tur (5e)
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Planning an adventure or campaign in Faerûn's far east? Playing a character from Shou Lung or Kozakura? Equip yourself appropriately! get Magic Items of Kara-Tur! In 1985¸ TSR released a sourcebook for AD&D called Oriental Adventures. Written by Gary Gygax¸ David Cook¸ and Francois Marcela-Froideval¸ it was a self-contained game using the fundamentals of the AD&D rules set¸ but set in Kara-Tur¸ a fantasy version of Earth's Far East. Oriental Adventures borrowed heavily from Asian sources to develop game materials. The authors took inspiration from China¸ Korea¸ Japan¸ and all over Southeast Asia. Folklore provided magic and monsters. History provided heroes and artifacts¸ weapons and armor. Movies provided fantastic martial arts. Kara-Tur became the first game world TSR released after Greyhawk¸ as Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms was not released until 1987. At some point thereafter¸ Kara-Tur was folded into the Forgotten Realms. Magic Items from Kara-Tur takes dozens of magic items from previous-edition books updates them for your 5th Edition game. All of this is accompanied by stunning historical Japanese art! Please leave a review after purchase¸ and tell me what you like and/or dislike. It'll help with future titles! Magic Items from Kara-Tur is part of a series of products which convert magic items and spells from previous editions to the 5th edition of D&D. Other conversions include: About the Author R P Davis is a freelance writer¸ editor¸ and adventure designer. He's been a tabletop gamer the entire time he's been sentient¸ and a role-playing addict for more than 30 years. In that time he's written countless things¸ from simple spell effects to D&D campaign worlds to complete role-playing games. Most of it sucked¸ but he likes to think he learned from the process. You can find R P Davis at The DM's Guild ¸ his website www.r-p-davis.com ¸ on Twitter @WP2XX and on Facebook.