It's the iconic characters that draw me, a bit of anti-hero and really interesting villains.  As it maps onto something like this, I'd look to some love-child of "Journey to the West", "Dragon Inn", and "Musa".  "Shadow" could be a fine add to the mix.  Having just finished Barry Hughart's books, it'd make me happy to have at least a veneer of the mythic added.

Fine, fine, you have a better grap on the actual sources than me!

...at least now I have a new list of stuff to check out while I wait the eternity or two needed to fish a GM out.

Annnnnnnnd bump!

Having recently re-stumbled upon "Spirit Blade Mountain" part of me would be curious about trying out something more hardcore Xianxia, with actual magic, immortals, mythical beasts and all that jazz.

System-wise, however, I have no idea what to suggest for it.

All said and done, the top of the wishlist still is Legends of the Wulin.

Still here and still looking!

Yeah, I’d definitely be willing to play too.

Three players, ladies and gents - we're up to three players! Who offers more? Three players and one, three players and two...

In reply to Larhas (msg # 10):

I might be interested in gming l5r tho I'm a newbie and have not played it but I have the core book and beginner box set if still looking. I'm on discord. Thekingchris.

I'm setting up a wuxia game. Initially I thought on doing it freeform, sandbox, but I changed my mind. So I'm going to use a homebrew system. The setting aims to explore how Jianghu would look like today (think The Breaker). I'm still ironing things out, but feel free to check it out and see if it's your thing. Link to the game.

In reply to jackdarkking (msg # 11):

Messaged you

In reply to RavenOfDispersion (msg # 12):

Yeah, I saw your game already. I've been on the fence for a bit - a modern setting is not what I was looking for, but it looks like you're putting some serious work into it.
I'll check it out more and see if I can come up with a good RTJ.

After a bit of coronapanic, I return to look for games!
Already in one, but it's slow enough I can confidently join a few more. So feel free to shoot ideas.

Have you seen Tianxia, a Fate Core game? It’s really well done.

Nope, haven't checked it yet - but I DO have a fair bit of free time lately. So if you say it's good I might as well check it out.

Bumping this lil' thing up once again.
I actually tossed a cursory glance at Tianxia and it looks interesting. Wouldn't be my first choice (...only because a cursory glance isn't enough to play it, and I'm lazy - not for any faults I found in it), but I'd definitely play it.

I return from seclusion!

Yeah, I've been away from rpol for a bit, but the content of this request is still valid - so feel free to prod me with ideas.

PSA: I am a certified Cool Person and you should run me a game.

If you want to play an Eastern themed game, there are a lot easier systems than Legends of Wulin.   Initially LoW appears easy  if you roll 8D10 and get three threes, two sixes, one four, and two nines...you get to choose which result..the results to choose from are 33, 26, 14, and 29.  The highest score is the better result (How many dice (first number) and the result three die of threes is 33.

Then you get into contested rolls and bonuses which blows easy out the window.

If you want to run a game with just D10s, just use the OWOD game system and it will be a lot easier.

Using the D20 systems and just making an Eastern theme is probably best as this is the one system most people know.

Still here, too, and still hopeful.

Hi! I've played most of these games and I have opinions :)



Wulin is a beast, and the problem with it is that trying to explain the rules and how the game works is a NIGHTMARE. A large portion of the game is explaining lore, and there are, frankly, better games to run these days.





They do a fair bit of asian mishmashing in Five Rings with some of the clans and traditions (which is a problem on it's own) but Five Rings has an incredibly well developed worldset and a passionate fanbace. The game is still VERY much designed to emulate Japanese tropes though.

I haven't played the new FFG version, but I've used the FFG system a little, and the new books are VERY good at creating character hooks.



Exalted is god awful mechanically. I could go on for an hour why it's an awful system and another hour on why no one should support the company that makes it. I own a shelf full of first edition and chunk of second editions: I like the world and REALLY wanted this game to work, but it just kind of sucks mechanically.

I'm going to recommend a few others.

Feng Shui 2nd edition does hong kong action movies pretty well, and has a weird kitchen sink setting that justifies nearly anything. It's not the best system, but it has two huge advantages: it's fairly clean when you know what you are doing and you spend no time on character creation. One of the settings is 6th century or so China, and has rules for all sorts of martial artists, sorcerers, transformed animals, actual demons and a bunch of other classes that would work. The only problem is that its inititive rules are really janky for PBP, but this can be adapted for online play.

Fellowship would work surprisingly well, I think. The idea is that each player creates a race or group with certain traits. Each PC is one representative of that race going on a long journey to defeat "THE OVERLORD". One of it's primary sources was Avatar the Last Airbender, so I can see how that would work. I really can't recommend Fellowship enough, it's one of the best RPG's of the decade IMO.

If you want a Japanese anime game with a LOT of mythology mished together as well as cybernetics and giant robots, you might want to check out Tenra Bansho Zero. It's got a highly cinematic system that's a little hard to describe, though it's very much designed to work in it's own bizarro anime world that has magical priests who animate giant robots, so maybe not exactly what you are looking for...

Fight! isn't bad for a martial arts game where people pair off and run tournament style fights. This works as a Wuxia (weirdly) but it would require some adaptation. It would be more of a fighting game anime in ancient China, but I could see that working.

Good luck!

Updating the thing!

I did manage to get into not zero, not one, but TWO games vaguely related to the request: one with a homebrew system and the other with a hack of Amber Diceless, but the feeling was more or less there.

Rpol being rpol, life struck and no GM has been seen in either one for more than a month, so I'm pretty sure looking for replacements doesn't count as cheating.

So come at me with ideas! I'm about as open system-wise as someone who works a fulltime job can be, so it has to be something I know (the list in post 1 is a good starting point), something really lightweight or something you don't mind me taking my sweet time to understand.

Am starting a new L5R game, check out the post in Looking for Players

I'll brush up on my 4th-edition-fu and see if I can shoot you something interesting. I played like... three sessions of that, years ago.

I've been thinking about running an Art of Wuxia rpg game but I am stalling due to a lack of a good adventure.

I am 110% down for Art of Wuxia.

I gave a quick look at it and it seems interesting. If you decide to run something with it drop a line here!
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