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Which steampunk game has the swarthiest aliens? Asking for a friend.
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Brainiac Five posted:Speaking of AEG stuff that John Wick used to be involved in, are there any good alternatives for katana-and-geta gaming besides L5R and Tenra?
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Mar 17, 2017 19:02
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Specifically Katana and geta, or more broadly East Asian? Qin: the Warring States
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Mar 17, 2017 19:03
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Rockopolis posted:Specifically Katana and geta, or more broadly East Asian? Specifically katana-and-geta, Heian to late Tokugawa. But recs for stuff in China, Korea, SE Asia, etc. are always welcome.
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Mar 17, 2017 19:38
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unseenlibrarian posted:Let's just take anything off the table that sounds like it should come out of the mouth of a 1930s pulp adventurer, optionally preceded by "Wily" That pretty much eliminates everything though(or at least anything that's actually interesting in either setting or mechanics)
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Mar 17, 2017 19:44
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unseenlibrarian posted:The weirdest thing to me in the game is that, despite adding Fantasy not-Poland, they decided the country that turned into "Totally not the Witcher", complete with a magic school about alchemy brewing from monster parts and a class of professional hunters was fantasy not-Germany. Not-Germany being monster hunter mecca was a carryover from the first edition. So they had to find a different gimmick for not-Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Mar 17, 2017 19:55
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Brainiac Five posted:Specifically katana-and-geta, Heian to late Tokugawa. But recs for stuff in China, Korea, SE Asia, etc. are always welcome. If I ever get to GM again I want to do a Shinsengumi game no matter the system
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Mar 17, 2017 20:05
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Gold Rush Games' Sengoku always used to come up in discussions of "games like L5R but not," but I've never played it myself so I couldn't tell you how good it is.
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Mar 17, 2017 23:11
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Brainiac Five posted:Specifically katana-and-geta, Heian to late Tokugawa. But recs for stuff in China, Korea, SE Asia, etc. are always welcome. I have yet to actually play The Blossoms Are Falling (the Heian setting for Burning Wheel), but on paper it does a lot of things that look great. I give particular marks to the way it handles capital-H Honor, by treating it as an affectation of those who buy into the cult of bushido, so you can either do the super melodramatic GIRI NINJO, ARA, MONO NO AWARE thing or play characters who think the whole thing is bullshit. Possibly in the same group! Compared to L5R and Tenra it is a thing of gritty realism; there is magic, but it's pretty much all entreating or warding off spirits, very low powered and not flashy.
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Mar 17, 2017 23:55
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It also has my pick for the most elegant mechanic ever: if you buy the trait for being a ghost summoner, your Circles expands to include people who are dead.
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Mar 17, 2017 23:56
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I've been meaning to run a Warring States style of game in Tenra for awhile now, just go full drama against a backdrop of a world gone mad. Giant robots striding confidently across burning fields as explosions rain down and infantry dash in terror from trench to trench. Heroes and villains on both sides with the greatest prize of all in the balance. I'm just not sure if I want to try a Discord or irc game or try my luck with a pbp.
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Mar 18, 2017 00:00
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In general I don't think you necessarily need a "samurai system", a lot of fantasy systems will work fine and you don't necessarily need something specifically "Asian-flavored". A lot of it is really what kind of game you want to run with samurais in, whether it's Kurosawa or Musou or something else, and finding a system that fits that rather than worrying about whether or not there's a katana on the cover. Not saying there aren't some good wuxia and similarly-themed games out there, just something to consider depending on what you want to do.
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Mar 18, 2017 01:42
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Alien Rope Burn posted:In general I don't think you necessarily need a "samurai system", a lot of fantasy systems will work fine and you don't necessarily need something specifically "Asian-flavored". A lot of it is really what kind of game you want to run with samurais in, whether it's Kurosawa or Musou or something else, and finding a system that fits that rather than worrying about whether or not there's a katana on the cover. Cool, thanks for your opinion, I'd rather not trawl through EAS department pages to locate good sources from which to compile an understanding of the Muromachi period so I can run a game set in the Onin War via Fungeon World or whatever, in favor of indirectly paying a person to have done that work for me and also converted it into something playable, in case anyone thinks they're funny and wants to say "GURPS!"
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Mar 18, 2017 01:58
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Mar 18, 2017 02:00
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Kwyndig posted:GURPS You are not excused.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:01
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I'm serious, GURPS is a good choice for realistic historical gaming.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:04
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GURPS! Japan!
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Mar 18, 2017 02:05
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Alien Rope Burn posted:In general I don't think you necessarily need a "samurai system", a lot of fantasy systems will work fine and you don't necessarily need something specifically "Asian-flavored". A lot of it is really what kind of game you want to run with samurais in, whether it's Kurosawa or Musou or something else, and finding a system that fits that rather than worrying about whether or not there's a katana on the cover. A Pendragon game reflavored and set on Feudal Japan or China is my dream
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Mar 18, 2017 02:06
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Kwyndig posted:I'm serious, GURPS is a good choice for realistic historical gaming. Neither of you will troll me.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:06
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Plutonis posted:A Pendragon game reflavored and set on Feudal Japan or China is my dream A Pendragon game that got reskinned to fit Glorantha is pretty much where King of Dragon Pass came from, so it's definitely doable.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:13
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Replace Chivalric Virtues with Bushido, the religious virtues with the correspondant ones for Confucianism, Mahayana Buddhism and Shinto and change the Eras to reflect the turbulence from the Ashikaga Shogunate to the Azuchi-Momoyama and then the Tokugawa Unification
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Mar 18, 2017 02:13
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Plutonis posted:Replace Chivalric Virtues with Bushido, the religious virtues with the correspondant ones for Confucianism, Mahayana Buddhism and Shinto and change the Eras to reflect the turbulence from the Ashikaga Shogunate to the Azuchi-Momoyama and then the Tokugawa Unification The Great Sengoku Campaign
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Mar 18, 2017 02:18
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Pathfinder, it has samurai and ninjas and the weapons and stuff. It's perfect.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:19
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Arivia posted:Pathfinder, it has samurai and ninjas and the weapons and stuff. It's perfect. This but unironically
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Mar 18, 2017 02:33
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Brainiac Five posted:Cool, thanks for your opinion, I'd rather not trawl through EAS department pages to locate good sources from which to compile an understanding of the Muromachi period so I can run a game set in the Onin War via Fungeon World or whatever, in favor of indirectly paying a person to have done that work for me and also converted it into something playable, in case anyone thinks they're funny and wants to say "GURPS!" If you can rattle off periods like "Heian to late Tokugawa" you can probably do fine with Wikipedia, most samurai fiction isn't exactly a bastion of academic rigor. There are many samurai-themed RPGs but extremely few good ones. I mean, you could always look at Bushido or Kaigaku or Usagi Yojimbo (either version) but none of them are things I'd necessarily recommend.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:41
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How can you possibly suggest Pathfinder for a samurai game... ...without insisting on Kaidan: A Japanese Ghost Story, a Japan-inspired dark fantasy setting for Pathfinder?
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Mar 18, 2017 02:41
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The best thing I ever heard about GURPS is that any three GURPS supplements make an interesting setting. GURPS High Tech, GURPS Blood Types, and GURPS Rome? Sold!
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Mar 18, 2017 03:24
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For me it's GURPS War Against the Chtorr crossing over with GURPS Vampire the Masquerade, because I didn't even have to make that up, GURPS writers already did it for me.
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Mar 18, 2017 03:35
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I just wanna be a Tsubaki Sanjuro, is that so hard?
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Mar 18, 2017 03:43
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Halloween Jack posted:How can you possibly suggest Pathfinder for a samurai game... Wow, there's a name I haven't heard in ages.
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Mar 18, 2017 03:49
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I just want Buddhist Herakles, patron Bodhisattva of Shaolin. Set it in the Tang Dynasty and you could replace the Pagan/Christian tension with Heaven-Worship/Buddhism. Flip it around and run a grand campaign from the Taiping Rebellion through the revolution. The goal of the Grand campaign is to depose Arthur and create a republic.
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Mar 18, 2017 04:28
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I just wanna try Pendragon...
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Mar 18, 2017 04:32
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Brainiac Five posted:Cool, thanks for your opinion, I'd rather not trawl through EAS department pages to locate good sources from which to compile an understanding of the Muromachi period so I can run a game set in the Onin War via Fungeon World or whatever, in favor of indirectly paying a person to have done that work for me and also converted it into something playable, in case anyone thinks they're funny and wants to say "GURPS!" ARB is actually 100% correct though and this has long been a problem semi-plagueing L5R. "I want to run a samurai game" is close to meaningless because of how broad that is. Do you want high flying over the top swordplay action? Because that's going to be extremely different from a far more drama heavy Seven Samurai style game! Do you just want to be a cool duder with a katana in an otherwise standard fantasy setting? And what kind of samurai are we talking here anyways - are you anime as gently caress, wearing little armor and focusing entirely on your GLORIOUS FOLDED STEEL, or are you someone in armor, on horseback, with a bow and a spear? L5R's been plagued by it's on indecision and the rules have long been a hot mess trying to figure it out. You have shugenja which are supposed to be pacifist holy men and women but in practice end up being D&D wizards, you got a system heavy on lethality and meaningless death in a game advertising being a rad warrior who dies gloriously, it constantly tries to beat you over the head over the idea that you are just another dumb shmuck in a setting that is filled to the goddamn brim with rad heroes who do the impossible, and etc, etc.
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Mar 18, 2017 06:16
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Speaking of East Asian-inspired TRPGs, what was the one in which stabbing character sheets was an acceptable and sometimes necessary course of action? I recall that you'd use a knife as a central prop and begin play with it covered and sheathed, but as things escalated both of those would come off.
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Mar 18, 2017 06:58
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That would be The Mist-Robed Gate, available under Creative Commons right here.
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Mar 18, 2017 07:26
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Kestral posted:That would be The Mist-Robed Gate, available under Creative Commons right here.
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Mar 18, 2017 07:52
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The best Feudal Japan game is, no lie, the first Usagi Yojimbo RPG (the one by Greg Stolze, not the Ironclaw-derived second game). Short, sweet, does everything you need. Has quite possibly my favorite combat system of any RPG.
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Mar 18, 2017 17:03
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FMguru posted:The best Feudal Japan game is, no lie, the first Usagi Yojimbo RPG (the one by Greg Stolze, not the Ironclaw-derived second game). Short, sweet, does everything you need. Has quite possibly my favorite combat system of any RPG. The one by Gold Rush Games? I have a copy but I admit the Fuzion logo mostly kept me from ever taking that close of a look at it.
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Mar 18, 2017 21:15
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Would anyone have that D&D Fighter Flowchart, the one that tells what they can do during various phases of the game, which is nothing, except the [People are roleplaying] -> [Act quick! It's only chance for agency you will get]. Need it for a friend.
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throw to first drat IT posted:Would anyone have that D&D Fighter Flowchart, the one that tells what they can do during various phases of the game, which is nothing, except the [People are roleplaying] -> [Act quick! It's only chance for agency you will get]. That's one of mine. 
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