A very good question.

Say, you just watched Sita Sings the Blues, amirite?

Too close to china.

I have a knowledgeable enough background in it but I personally hate all you smelly hindu curry mother fuckers that I would never be able to stand it. That's my reason at least...

'Cause of rampant sex.

It's worthy enough of my respect that I cannot bring myself to bastardise it.

>>4089630
No, I happen to be taking a history of religion class and we just finished up Hinduism.

Not exactly sure. Could be kick ass.

>>4089627
Because I'm too busy
MAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAM
AHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMA
HABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATAMAHABHARATA

ashwataman (the elephant) is dead

>>4089627
Westerners aren't very familiar with it.

Oh my god, a thraed where I can bring this up!
Anyone here read Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny? I fucking loved that book.

Because everyone would have to play a Bard, or dual-class into it.

JAI HOOOO
KUCHA KUCHA HOTA HEEEEIIII

Because blue skin in a non sci fi setting

it feels wrong

>>4089674
We aren't that familiar with China either, but that doesn't stop the myriad wushu RPGs.

Because we can't possibly tell the kids that the indians were the only ones to make use of hero-type units in their armies.

Yeah. They had a bunch of people who said: "Can I be the hero?" and they said: "Suure. Go and Kill guy X and bring me his head. He's in the middle of that buncha spear-wielding doods."
And they totally went and did it.

>>4089630
That shit is amazing.

>>4089765
Quite good. Pity /co/ ignored my thread about it as hard as they could.

Anyway, Classical India certainly has the stuff of legends and room enough for PCs in it. Just the story of the brothers alone...

>>4089774
>Quite good. Pity /co/ ignored my thread about it as hard as they could.
What the hell is wrong with them, then?

>>4089688
No, everyone would be Fighter/Bards.

D'SHUM D'SHUM AaaaAaaaaAaaaaAaaaa

Goddamit, Hindi movies are like fucking crack. I remember one show, where the heroine (once blind, now she can see) falls in love with the terrorist who killed her previous lover. Shit was so cash.

>>4089788
Watch the western version of the Mahabharata.

Hard as fuck.

Fuck india as setting, go all the way and use Lord of Light as a setting

>>4089777
I dunno. Not enough teen titties.

>>4089788
I'm a sucker for Bollywood craziness. Does it have plenty of bizarre gunfights and explosions, or is it all sappy singing? Regrettably, either way I'd probably watch it if you divulged a title.

Alright, we get the point OP, you know a lot about an area of history with which most people are totally unfamiliar. Well done, I suppose.

>>4089777
Fags don't pay attention unless it's a white person in spandex?

>>4089809
Honmestly though, I think a Bollywood movie-style game would make for a very fun, overdramatic game. Think about it.

>>4089627
Because most people are totally clueless about it. We have some ideas of stereotypical china, but not ancient india.

I would play it, so long as I can play an East India Company man who has a retinue of indentured servants and has his cast iron bathtub carried behind him whereever he goes.

>>4089627
Because only exalted characters wouould survive that batshit crazy ass stuff.
Maybe if you mde a 300 point GURPS character. Maybe.

>>4089808
I can't remember the title, and my place suffered a blackout before I saw the ending- I remember she was just about to persuade him not to bomb some India-Pakistan peace process or something; they were in the mountains, and she was crying in the snow, and he was giving her all these significant looks- by God, it was hilarious. And yes, it had singing, dubbed sound-effects shooting and of course, the DSHUM DSHUM fights.

I also remember a youtube video of some Indian Commissar-like character dodging shots Matrix-style. Anyone have a link?

>>4089822
Like I said, set it in modern India, but as a Bollywood style movie.

>>4089832
>Classical India
>East India Trading Company

wut

>>4089809
I think it's all just a plan to have an RPG book for every square mile of Earth, for every year of its existence.

>>4089838
We always have the standby sliding horse under a truck clip.

>>4089842

Yes. This is an alternate reality after all.

Tell me fa/tg/uys, why do we never see New Jersey in 1995 as a setting?

>>4089688
>>4089788
>>4089808
>>4089820
>>4089838
>>4089853
All these only seem to confirm that if anyone plays Exalted Modern, it's gonna be run as a Bollywood movie. Hell, regular Exalted would be a Bollywood movie.

>>4089695
Get with it, bro. It's called Syfy now.

>>4089853
Link?

>>4089888
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VtDlsUIch8

>>4089876

Wait, what?

>>4089931
The SciFi channel officially changed it's name to SyFy.

>>4089876

OH GOD IT'S FUCKING TRUE

WHAT THE FUCK

THAT'D BETTER NOT BE AN ATTEMPT TO SOUND MORE HIP

>>4089941
I think it's so they can get away with showing less Sci Fi.

>>4089944

They've been doing that for a long time now, anyway, what with all the horrible b-grade horror films they've been showing recently.

Actually, the only good movie I've seen on Sci Fi (I refuse to use SyFy) in recent memory was "In the Mouth of Madness"

MY GODS, YOU HAVE NINE HEADS! EACH MORE UGLY THAN THE LAST! DIE FOUL DEMON KING! HHRRYYA!

>>4089940
What the everloving fuck?

>>4089869
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo
Exalted?

Indian legends include what's possibly a nuclear weapon going off.

No joke.

>>4089962
http://badassoftheweek.com/rama.html
Link related?

>>4090015
Interesting. Do go on.

>>4089941
Their official statement is that they did it to be more hip. Look up the press release if you don't believe me.

Classical india is thus never used for the same reason Exalted is never used.

>>4090015
Proof that the Pakistanis have had a nuclear arsenal for longer than they've admitted.

>>4090024
Holy shit. Now we NEED to create an Indian High Fantasy setting.

>>4090051
Well before we do that we need a title.

Holy Rivers?

Karma?

Dharma?

Many Gods, Few Heroes?

Sita Does Bangladesh?

>>4090058
Dharma is good. Perhaps throw in an adjective.

>>4090058
Oooh, shit, aspire to be a god by saving a river.

>>4090072
I'm fucking tired. The only two things I could think of for some reason were "Anterior Dharma" and "Inescapable Dharma."

Keep it alive anon, I'm going to bed.

>>4090093
>>4090058
>>4090072
"The term Dharma.ogg dharma' (help·info) (Sanskrit: dhárma, Pāḷi dhamma), is an Indian spiritual and religious term, that means one's righteous duty or any virtuous path in the common sense of the term.[1] In Indian languages it contextually implies one's religion. Throughout Indian philosophy, Dharma is presented as a central concept that is used in order to explain the "higher truth" or ultimate reality of the universe."

"The word dharma literally translates as that which upholds or supports, and is generally translated into English as law."

Goddamn. This word means everything. Maybe it's enough on its own.

>>4090140
And yet most people only know it from "Lost" or "Dharma and Greg"

>>4090076
Or do like Rama and beat the fuck out of the ocean until it runs away crying.

>>4090146
Curse you, Popular Culture!

>>4089627
TOO FUCKING COMPLICATED, THAT'S WHY.

Holy shit guys, classical India. It does my head in.

Is this setting GRIMDARK? Is "Bloody Dharma" too eXtreme?

Fallen Dharma

The River Dharma

???

Classical India is a binary of mary sues and grindan.

HAHA! DUE TO A HUNDRED YEARS AUSTERITIES I CAN NOW SHOOT NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS WITH MY DONG! I HAVE CAPTURED YOUR DAUGHTER!

WHAT? I WILL FIND MY DAUGHTER BY SENDING THREE MILLION BILLION OF MY COUSINS TO EACH OF THE SEVENTY-FIVE DIMENSIONS IN SEARCH OF HER......
....FUCK, THEY ARE ALL DEAD, AND THEIR BILE HAS FORMED THE INDIAN SEA.

Indian mythology, especially fucking Hindu mythology, is dense and complex to the point of impenetrability. That is why.

>>4090202

Ahaha. The "shooting explosions with your dong" is what the japanese adpoted ASAP after they got their hands on all that wierd indian esoteric literature.

Only with them it ended up as: "YOU MUST FUCK THAT GUY BECAUSE HE WILL SEND ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS INTO YOUR UTERUS!"

And: "YOU MUST LET ME STICK IT IN YOUR POOPER BOY, OR YOU'LL GO TO HELL AND REINCARANTE AS AN INSECT!"

India is the true source of all the wierd and awesome porn the japanese are making these days.

>>4089627
You would have to sing the entire time.

>>4090226
And that's a problem?

>>4090202
That sounds bloody fantastic.

...FUND IT!

>>4090223
India is the true source of everything awesome.

I get the idea that the world was incredibly dull until the subcontinent rammed into east asia and started playing sitar with its five tongues while surfing on an elephant.

>>4090235

We used to call it "The Legend of Rama" or something. It's full of multiclassing, powerplaying dicks though.

>>4090240

Am I the only one seeing the Subcontinent yelling 'RAMMING SPEED' a la War of the Worlds now?

>>4090250
Oh man, you actually picked up that I was referring to the ramayana.

HANUMAN YOU MUST JUMP TO SRI LANKA!
"Fuck I don't know if I can do that I'm just some monkey"
BELEEEEEEEEEEEEVEEEE INNNN YOOOUUURRRRSSSEEEELLLLLF!!!!

"Uh, Okay! ho! HUP! OFF! FUCK YEAR SITAR RIFF!"

Exalted: India?

>>4090304
Exalted is the wapanese bastardization of Indian-type myth.

>>4090268

I dunno about the rest of the world, but even my fucking nazi-grandpa has read the Bhagavad-gita, so it stands to reason that I might've heard of the Ramayana.

But indian legends are cockfull of dickery and namescalling, it's grand. Like how Hanuman won his wife by being the greater dick than his opponent or how that other demon went around saying: "HAHA! You can't kill me anymore 'cause I SAID SO!" and that god totally went: "Well, I'm a LION NOW and youre NOT INSIDE YOUR CAR!" It's very 4channish.

Or how the Bhagavad-gita is basically thousands of pages of Ranma explaining to the main character that it's totally cool to kill his family because they're dickheads.

Also: Monks killing the shit out of each other.

>>4090724
>It's very 4channish.

Indian Myth sounds more like a millennium-spanning game of Calvinball.

>>4089685
YAMA WAS HERE! YOU GON' GET CHOKED!

Once Shiva killed his kid by looking at it with his third eye so the baby's head burnt up. So he put an elephant head on the corpse's neck and called it evil. The kid was a god too, so he got better.

And now we have Ganesha, who is actually a pretty cool guy, all things considered.

>>4094207

How can the god of thief, liars and writers not be a swell guy?

If this setting is used, should the players have to perform bollywood musical pieces and the GM judges them for it to replace rolls?

>>4094455
That goes without saying

My god... how incredible would a bollywood LARP be

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20011019a

Web enhancement for 3.0e Oriental Adventures. The world is called Mahasarpa.

I do know GURPS Martial Arts did cover Kalapraiyat as a martial art, and had rules for using tiger-claws and the urumi. How cool is a steel whip-sword, seriously?

That said, if theres a setting that would be made of fuckwin, it would be the Second Mysore War, as the British got their asses handed to them during the initial stages of the war, mainly due to the awesomeness of Mysore rockets.

For some reason I think of wizards, sorcerers and other spellcasters when I think of Indian culture and settings.

>>4094556
GIANT WHALE CANNON

>>4094725

You failed to mention that those "rockets" were in fact...

...ROCKET POWERED SWORDS! THOUSANDS OF THEM!

Wich is so retard a concept that it's fucking awesome again.

>>4090024

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwVZeCLEWrE

This is FUCKING BULLSHIT. There's no way I'm giving my cousins half the fucking kingdom. It's not fair. Why are the Pandavas so god damn popular?

>>4097173

Maybe it's because you're a fucking douchebag.

P.S. You're dad is a blind beggar haha

>>4097193

I want to fuck her face.

>>4097193

Duryo my boy, calm down I know how to beat the pandavas.

I'll challenge them to a game of DND. Everyone knows Yudishtira's got no idea how to stay in character.

>>4097221

''The Evil King lies at your feet, begging mercy. What do you do?''

Yudishthira: Lol I kill gank his ass. That'll teach him

>>4097248

Uh oh.

>>4097193
GIANT WHALE CANNON

>>4097257

YOU BREAK YOUR VOWS OF CHIVALRY AND FALL. YOU ARE NOW JUST A FIGHTER.

Yudishhtira: What? Fuck wait hang on...

NO MAN YOU'RE FUCKED. ROLL INITIATIVE.

Yudishthira: ......1

Dont forget a healthy dose of Yoga

Indra, after his defeat by Indrajit

was cursed to have vaginas sprout all over his body.

he never left his house after that

>>4097287

Duryodhana: Rocks fall. You die!

Yudishthira: Oh come on! this is such bullshit. You've railroaded this campaign since start to finish. Let me start over again, man.

Duryodhana: Alright, fine, you fucking faggot. But only if you give me something to let this slide. greasy wheel and all that.

*5 hours later*

Yudishthira: I cast detect evil. Good? Alright, I move down the hall and- why are you smiling?

Duryodhana: YOU HIT A TRAP. YOU ARE STRUCK BY A PRISMATIC RAY... YOU ARE TURNED TO STONE.

Yudishthira: Fuck this! I'm leaving. I've got nothing left, man. I lost my clothes, my brothers, my servants and my own god damn house. I even gambled myself and lost! Jesus Christ, Drapaudi is gonna kill me when she finds out. I only came over here because it wasn't my turn to bang her tonight.

Duryodhana: Tell you what, You still have that sweet wife of yours man! If you survive this dungeon crawl I'll give back everything you lost.

Yudishthira:... Alright man.

*Minutes later*

Draupadi: You did what?

>>4094207
This is the same guy that stopped the Ganges from flooding the world by tentacle raping her with his dreadlocks for eternity.

To this day he is the only guy with clean dreads, but it is also why the Ganges is so fucking filthy.

Duryodhana: holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitThisisactuallyhappeningHolyshitholyshit

Bhima: Dude! I swear I'm gonna crack your ribs open and eat your guts if you touch her!

MEANWHILE:

Amba: I'm a complete psycho. Marry me now or I'll burn your whole city to the ground.

Bishma: I'm sorry babe. I like you but I don't want to marry you. If I did, I would lose my immortality, and let's be honest here. You're kinda crazy.

>>4097845

Amba: Honey, I love you so much II want to skin you alive and wear you like a suit.

Bishma: This is exactly what I'm talking about. You never listen and you want to skin me alive. This could never work. I'm leaving now. Good bye.

I sure hope my stupid protégés didn't start a feud that will eventually destroy the world while I was away....

AMBA: FINE! I DON'T NEED YOU! SEE IF I CARE. I'll show him. I'll show them all that a womyn can make it in the world without a man!

>>4098021
GIANT WHALE CANNON

>>4098021

Amba: WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF COMMITING TO THIS RELATIONSHIP?

Seriously, everyone should watch this movie. It's the most fucking badass shit ever.

>>4098037

Bishma: Holy shit! Ok calm down. Everyone stay cool. No one's going to get hurt... Amba. down. the. bow. now.

>>4098066

Bishma: Very fucking funny. I told you I can't be killed. Now put down the god damn bow before you hurt yourself.

Amba: You'll have to pry from my cold dead hands you sexy beast!

Bishma: *Sigh* that's it. I can't put up with this anymore. She's been stalking me for a hundred years. She even underwent a fucking sex-change just to sneak up on me. I give up. Death is better than this.

Amba: I...I...I can't do it! I love you too much!

*Thunk*

>>4098128

Bishma: Shot through the heart and you're to blame...
Yudishthira: You give love a bad name... Sorry dude, but I had no choice. At least you're going out in style on a this souped-up battle wagon.

Bishma: I'm glad it was you, son... I know things have gotten really crazy these past couple of years but I want you to know... You're fucked. Because Drona is going to mess your shit up royally. That motherfucker is simply crazy, man. The only way he can be die is if he choses not to fight you and he will. I guarantee it.

>>4098196

Dad, guys, don't worry. I know how to break through Drona's invincible shield wall! I learned the secret when I was still inside mommy and daddy was touching her in her special place.

Alright! Here I go! Hyy---aaaaaaaaaaah!

>>4098256

Drona: HAHA OH WOW.

>>4098040
Then upload it here:
http://www.mogulus.com/tgthechannel

>>4098267

Daddy! Daddy! help me! I don't know how to get out! they've got me surrounded!

>>4098313>

Abhimanyu: aAaAAaAAaaargh!

Drona: Mess with the best, die like the rest, fool. Wait. What the shit? This is just a kid! Guys, let's...let's call it a day, okay?

>>4098359

Drona: I don't want to play anymore.

>>4094406
Excuse me, but he is also the infinitely compassionate god of good luck, wisdom, and the removal of obstacles!

Bishma: uhh..wow. I didn't see that coming. Amazing, really. I've known the guy for over a hundred years and he never flinched once... Well good job, kids! but you're not out of the woods yet! Duryodhana still has Karna to kick your ass and he's exactly like Superman. He even draws his powers from the sun's light!

Pandava brothers: *groan*

That is all I can tell you now... I feel it now. Death...I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

Hey Arjuna. Anything you can do I can do better.

>>4098504
My middle name is Arjuna.

>>4098504

Oh..Oh yeah?

>>4098521

Check this out. I'm going to close my eyes and shoot my bow behind my back and hit a moving target 1000 km away.

Notice how this is the manner I used to kill your son.

>>4098545

Arjuna: Krishna! What the fuck have you gotten me into? I can't beat him. He's too good! oh god, oh jesus, oh god he's coming. Is that a spear that can never miss it's target in his hand? I'm fucked, man. FUCKED!

Krishna: Calm down, Arjuna. Here, have a seat. You can do this. WE can do this. You know why? Wipe your nose, sonny.

Arjuna: *sniff* *sniff* No...why?

Krishna: Because we're going to cheat.

Indian myth is suddenly AWESOMER.

Bump for India awesome

If somebody doesn't archive this shit once it's finished, there is no justice in this world.

what is the name of this movie

>>4098593

Krishna: Here's the plan.

Step 1: Get rid of that super spear. to do that we're going to sacrifice your Bhima's Half-Giant son. After his kid slips into a berserker rage and devours a couple billion people and several continents, Karna will have no choice except to USE the Spear of Shiva to kill the brat to save all of creation. Don't worry about your brother. That kid was a freak. Better he die accomplishing something useful.

Step 2! Stick with me here. We're going to ride out at dawn and duel Karna aboard our chariots just like the Laws of armed combat dictate for Princes. Little do they know I have an ace up my sleeve... I'm going to have the earth swallow the wheels of his chariot, thus forcing to dismount and try to shovel out his chariot. When he's hands and knees on the ground with his back to you, shoot him with your bow and Bob's your uncle! What do you think?

Arjuna: Krishna... That sounds kind of dishonest... Evil, even...

Krishna: Nah! The ends justify the means. Just do it.

>>4098687

Ok! Karna just saved the world from certain annihilation. Time to strike! HERE WE GO! HANG ON, ARJUNA! SHIT JUST GOT REAL! WOOOOOOOOOO HAHAHAHAHA

Arjuna: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HE'S SHOOTING US ALREADY!

Krishna: Shut up! I can't steer with you clutching me like a nancy. Any second now, any second now... There!

Karna: Shit! Time out! There's something wrong with my chariot.

>>4098593

Arjuna: Just who the hell do you think I am?!

>>4098669

Think it's the Mahabharata.

>>4098729

Karna: what the fuck! Krishna, you asshole. I know it's you who did this!

Krishna: I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Clearly, the earth has magically swallowed your chariot because you're a prick.

Karna: The only prick I see is Arjuna's down your throat. Faggot. Arjuna! Are you going to put up with this bullshit? This goes against everything you stand for as a prince, a warrior, an honest and just man.

Arjuna: I'll be honest, here. Yeah.

Krishna: Do it Arjuna! Take the the shot! Take the SHOOOOOOOT!

>>4098780

*Thunk*

Karna: I really... didn't believe... you had it... In you. I'm glad I'm leaving this... this... world for a better...

Arjuna: Bullseye! Man, that was easy!

>>4098806

damn here was a better picture I had of Karna getting murdered

>>4098768

The 1989 one?

>>4098806

Krishna: You know... Now that I see him up close, there's something oddly familiar about him.

Arjuna: What? Let me have a better look.

What the hell. You're right!

>>4098829

I too wish to confirm this before I try torrenting it.

>>4098845

Kunti: YOU MURDERED MY SON, YOUR ELDEST BROTHER, AND THE ONE TRUE HEIR TO THE THRONE.

Pandava brothers: SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.

Krishna: woops.

Krishna: Alright boys, I know everyone is really upset about Karna, your long lost orphaned brother being despicably shot like a dog. However, we can't let this get in the way of final victory!

Yudishthira: Do we even really deserve to win at this point?

Bhima: Seriously. I even cannibalized my cousin and made Draupadi wash her hair in his blood.

Arjuna: and I murdered my own mentors, Bishma and Drona, who raised us as their own children.

Krishna: GUYS! FOCUS! Jeez. Look all we have to do is kill Duryodhana and the war is over. Come on, he's hiding in an impenetrable lake of ice.

Duryodhana: Go away. I don't care about any of this anymore. All of my family is dead, my friends are dead and the whole world is destroyed.

Yudishthra: Come out and fight dammit!

Duryodhana: FINE! WOO-HAH!

Krishna: Quick! Bhima! smash his exposed legs with your mace. That'll take the wind out of him.

Bhima: But that's against the rules of war!

Krishna: I think we're a little past debating that by now.

*Crunch*

Duryodhana: AaAaAaAaAaAAAAAAAA! My leg! You broke my leg! DAMN YOU ALL. I CURSE YOU ALL TO DEATH AND MISERY.

>>4098867
Krishna does not go "whoops."

>>4098941

AND THEN THE WHOLE WORLD IS ENGULFED IN FIRE.

THE END.

SERIOUSLY. BAD END FOR EVERYONE.

>>4098959
>SERIOUSLY. BAD END FOR EVERYONE.

Except that babby is formed

>>4098946

I know he doesn't go ''whoops'' and he knew that Karna was the eldest brother. However, it is a real cause of debate by experts of the story that Karna withholds this vital piece of information that plunges the world into annihilation.

Without Karna, Duryodhana could never have challenged the might of the Pandavas. Even more importantly, the two of them were FRIENDS. Karna could have made peace between the Pandavas and Kauravas had he known the truth of his heritage.

I just tried to sum it up briefly.

>>4098986

Well, Kunti did give Karna the chance to do exactly that, but he chose to fight on.

In conclusion, for all the people who were wondering what this is, it's the 1989 PETER BROOK's version of the MAHABHARATA.

It's the world's longest story and this little movie version is 6 hours in length.

Find it, watch it, love it. It's a real source of inspiration for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B4Z1PB97KY

You can find the first episodes on youtube

>>4099058

Yes, you're right. Kunti did try to bring him over to the Pandavas and failed. However, Yudishtra and the other Pandavas would have bowed to Karna because he was the eldest brother and therefore the leader of their family.

As the living embodiment of Dharma, there's no way Yudishtra would have taken up arms against Karna if he knew his true nature. Even the cause of the hatred between Arjuna and Karna lies in the fact that Karna was an orphaned bastard who dared challenge the Indian Caste system and wished to duel with the princes for the hand of Draupadi.