Fantastic as always, Munkao! The adventurer as professional meddler is brilliant, especially in competition with other guilds with different approaches. I'm about as white-bread Midwestern America as possible, but it certainly seems to fit with my mediated understanding of Southeast Asian cultural contexts. :-) It certainly would feel weird in a "Western" setting.
I'm hoping to give this a try at a small con this weekend, using one of your other scenarios--if so, I'll report back.
While I certainly get this is a WIP, I'm really feeling the need for some monsters/gods to fill things out (more gods than people, and more monsters than gods, after all!) Any resources off the top of your head (besides just randomly googling)?
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Thanks Aaron! If folks with little understanding of SEA culture can vibe with it, that is like... oooof... dream outcome. :D So fingers all crossed for that!
These are not TTRPG books and also not fictional(in a way) but are completely fascinating books on Malay supernatural, written by British administrators decades ago. They are a fascinating read.
Malay Magic: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47873
Malay Poisons, charm cures: https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml
There are also quite a few contemporary Filipino books on their monsters!