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Feng Shui Engineering Ch 13-16
🕑 Added 2023-07-20 17:25:27 +0000 UTCChapters 13-16 of "Reach Heaven Via Feng Shui Engineering, Drug Trade And Tax Evasion" which you can read in full here. It is intended to be somewhat similar to "The Martian" in a xianxia setting, focusing on magical engineering, sect building, as well as the politics and economics of sects.
As usual, this is a draft version of the chapters available to patrons, and it can change between now and when it is released to everyone else.
Next chapter of the Summoned Hero is currently being beta-read by my beta-readers with their beta-eyes.
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SableGM
A combination of reasons: - I have never played xianqi, and writing about a game you haven't played is kind of a pain. - More importantly, I think much fewer readers have played it. Shatranj is essentially just modern chess with some alternative rules: when I write that Yonghao exposed his king or what not, I think that most people would get it in a way they wouldn't me describing something about chinese chess. - An argument can be made that then I should have just had them play regular modern chess, but the term "chess" seems too mundane for the lack of a better description, it doesn't fit into a xianxia setting as well as "shatanj". It also doesn't add that much clarity compared to other more modern terms like "calories".
AkAk
Why shatranji instead of something like xiangqi?
