>>6136322>DAOISMhttps://ctext.org/zhuangzi?searchu=%E5%B1%8E 東郭子問於莊子曰:「所謂道,惡乎在?」莊子曰:「無所不在。」東郭子曰:「期而後可。」莊子曰:「在螻蟻。」曰:「何其下邪?」曰:「在稊稗。」曰:「何其愈下邪?」曰:「在瓦甓。」曰:「何其愈甚邪?」曰:「在屎溺。」東郭子不應。
Dongguo Zi asked Zhuangzi,
“This thing called the Dao —where is it to be found?”
Zhuangzi said, “There is no place where it is not present.”
The other said, “Give a specific instance of it."
“It is in the ant.”
“Give a lower example?”
“It is in the blades of grass.”
“An example beneath that?”
“It is in the broken shards.”
“Surely that is the lowest example?”
“It is in the piss and shit.”
To this, Dongguo Zi gave no reply.
>Wuxia rpg mechanicsI read this rpg called something like Qin Warring States it had this mechanic called the Yin Yang die, basically one black 1d10 one white 1d10 the roll was a subtraction essentially
result = abs(d10_black - d10_white)
and there was some table for looking up the results, but the criticals were essentially doubles (ie whenever both black, white die result the same, subtraction = zero ie Yin Yang in balance). I also remember that rpg adhered to the whole Metal Water Fire Wood Earth five element thing they were the attributes
Metal like Strength, martial etc
Water agility, speed dexterity
Fire was social? charisma for some reason
Wood was mental, intelligence, memory concentration
Earth was inner will, Heaven and Earth metaphysics etc it made sense because of Chinese geomancy or something
I have a hoard of wuxia adjacent art assets hehe I am not really well versed enough in the genre to worldbuild a setting though, maybe someday. I am always tempted by a sort of Silk Road or desert and steppe type setting, maybe I could get away with the lack of historical genre knowledge by making everyone Mongolian chaos warriors or something. Basically I watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon lol that is all I really know and all my fantasy settings just turn into warhammer fantasy battle chaos warriors anyway argh
pic related is Zhang Yimou pretending to make a Wuxia film but actually trying to secretly reference Hong Kong umbrella movement instead or something (what was going on with those stupid metal umbrella sword uprising things??) Basically you can have this, or Matt Damon ??? in that Great Wall film NOOO
