My old d&d players are were getting tired and burnt out DMing themselves without me, so have requested I DM again. Specifically, they wanted 'something mixing wuxia and historical china'. So I've been reading, for the first time, chinese history and philosophy. HOLY SHIT the warring states are an interesting period. I do like it how they basically invented communism multiple different ways ~2500 years ago. And the game of thrones bullshit these people pulled is WILD, just WILD. It does highlight for me however, that when we think of 'bronze age empires' a lot of these empires were able to exist because the peasants were farming crops that all...kinda were ready for harvest at the same time, in places where the peasants couldn't leave? Like a lot of these big empires were extraction machines, like today, and not the zenith of their civilization. That aside, wow there is some wild stuff here. I'm currently working on a 309 BC campaign involving vampires and geopolitics and the quest for immortality leading up to the unification of China.