If I Owned D&D what would I do? Part 2

I'd revive Oriental Adventures and expand it to include not just Japanese tropes with a handful of Chinese but Indian and Arabian Knights adventures. The Orient as a compliment to the Occident as represented in the main game. I'm not sure what the name would be but Oriental doesn't have to be offensive if the term is used correctly, it just means East. Also we're not creating accurate stuff here, this isn't RuneQuest or GURPS trying to play in the real-world setting, this is D&D which melded a thousand years of European and Near East history and myth with fantasy stories in a big pot. That's what we're going for, the feel, not the reality. Such a book would be a stand-alone (but very compatible) game like the original 1E Oriental Adventures except this time with its own Monster Manual & DM's Guide and a setting that blends Kara Tur with the Al-Qadim (Zakhara) and a new India setting.

This would mean moving some of the Near East and Eastern beasts out of the D&D Monster Manual (by Mantacores and Efreeti, I do love you) and putting them in the Oriental Adventures Monster Manual.

I'd do the same thing with Gamma World. 

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If I Owned D&D what would I do? Part 2

I'd revive Oriental Adventures and expand it to include not just Japanese tropes with a handful of Chinese but Indian and Arabian Knight...