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I'm writing a kung-fu RPG and I want to talk about it

Started by Azraele, August 04, 2018, 05:43:39 PM

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Quote from: Azraele;1054212Yeah, I've been kind of petrified of that since I started banging this thing together. My strategy to kill the "one true build" as I've heard it termed is thus:

1) I try to avoid well-known pitfalls. Exalted 2nd edition was a crash-course in things that seemed like super great ideas on paper. But it was an ever-churning dumpster fire of disappointment in play; I've got a heavy bookshelf of disappointment I crack open every once in a while to remind myself of things to avoid.

Yeah. Exalted certainly is a spectacular cautionary example of what NOT to do.
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Quote from: RPGPundit;1054344Yeah. Exalted certainly is a spectacular cautionary example of what NOT to do.

I've never played Exalted myself. If I was going to design a game like this I'd probably follow along the lines of the original Feng Shuei. Except, given the genre that is trying to be captured (epic eastern horror), you'd turn the dial up to 11.
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Feng Shui did a much better job than most at this difficult design challenge.
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Azraele

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Hey! I want to keep talking about this. Check out how much I've already talked with these handy links!

First, the more complex dimension of our wound system. Not only can you mutilate your foe's body, you can mutilate their soul!

Next, some mystical magical woo that I made up a lot. I promise there' not much required reading.

But of course, all magical woo is in service to the sorcery of asskicking

Also, here's one about walking. What? They can't all melt your face off!

This one however, will absolutely melt your face off. We present a tank, for your punching pleasure!

Since this thread has matured, I feel it's time I finally had "the talk" with the lot of you: learn about the non-stork origins of martial heroes therein.

Do you have a Burning Need for a post-apocalyptic serfdom simulator?! No? Well, apparently I did!

And here's my very latest, where I artlessly smoosh together two great XP-incentive mechanisms into a Frankenstien's monster that makes god turn his head from this world in disgust. Enjoy!
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I should mention the most extensive and researched study of martial arts styles in an RPG was Erick Wujcik's Ninjas & Superspies. Erick was, like myself, a great sinophile.
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Azraele

Quote from: RPGPundit;1065885I should mention the most extensive and researched study of martial arts styles in an RPG was Erick Wujcik's Ninjas & Superspies. Erick was, like myself, a great sinophile.

You know, I think I actually have an old copy of that kicking around somewhere. I didn't realize Wujcik wrote it; I'll have to dust it off and check it out!

Meanwhile, I brutal'd up some of the kung-fu in this newest of blog posts for your collective reading enjoyment.

And, as you've added the shiny new word "sinophile" to my vocabulary (a vanishingly rare treat for the aging bibliophile) I offer you the awesome knowledge that I also just learned in re-writing the water style: apparently Hawaiian martial arts is based on joint locks and breaking bones, which is an appropriately gory and over-the-top thing to appear in a game based on a show where poking people right makes their head go scanners.
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Wujcik also did the Palladium Mystic China sourcebook, which once more showed his considerable knowledge of the subject.
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AxesofEvil

Hey man, are you still working on this? I'm loving everything that I read on the first two pages, so much so that I wanted to go ahead and comment before going through pages three and four.

Also, are you going to possibly run this anywhere? I want to at least make test characters for this system, to see what all can be made.

Azraele

Quote from: AxesofEvil;1067604Hey man, are you still working on this? I'm loving everything that I read on the first two pages, so much so that I wanted to go ahead and comment before going through pages three and four.

Also, are you going to possibly run this anywhere? I want to at least make test characters for this system, to see what all can be made.

Oh yeah; I've been pecking away at it all this year, hope to have a "proper" playtest finished in the near-ish future. Yours is the second request for more direct online testing I've gotten actually: that's clearly a mandate I've got to do something with... Let me get back to you!
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AxesofEvil

Right on.

While I'm here, I like how brutal the setting sounds right now, but do you mean it's a true 'post apocalypse', like people are living in little hobo shacks everywhere, and using bottlecaps or funko pops for currency?

I ask because I wonder if that would really effect the characters we make. Like, could Ken Masters or Johnny Cage exist in this world, where they're rich famous yuppies who want to prove that they're hard? Or is this world just too desolate and demon-ridden for a 'yuppie' style character to even exist?

Azraele

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Quote from: AxesofEvil;1067720Right on.

While I'm here, I like how brutal the setting sounds right now, but do you mean it's a true 'post apocalypse', like people are living in little hobo shacks everywhere, and using bottlecaps or funko pops for currency?

I ask because I wonder if that would really effect the characters we make. Like, could Ken Masters or Johnny Cage exist in this world, where they're rich famous yuppies who want to prove that they're hard? Or is this world just too desolate and demon-ridden for a 'yuppie' style character to even exist?

I imagined it pretty bottlecapy, yeah. You wouldn't see a lot of Johnny Cages in Fist of the North Star ;-D

That said, I'm not here to tell you how to run YOUR apocalypse; maybe it was one of those hunger-games classist apocalypses. Nu-aristocrat yuppies would be like, awesome hitmen in that scenario. I'm leaving borders open on the maps and keeping the particulars of the Armageddon vague, so feel free to be creative!

Edit: Also, new blog post! Bad good guys using good guy lightning kung-fu versus good ninjas doing evil ninja kung-fu. Join the carnage!
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Azraele

Oh man, I missed a few blog updates over the holidays. Let me link you fine folks to the goodies:

First, I continued my re-write of the kung-fu with a long discussion about the joys of firebending and psychic horrors beyond your wildest nightmares.

Kept that rolling with an in-depth analysis of why it's rad to be Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star which, naturally, was delivered with the kung-fu that makes heads explode.

Slowed it down a bit with my Fistmas present to the world, the Content rules for running and pacing games.

and just now I topped all that off with a some intro adventure and game-pitch documents, sprinkled lovingly between part one of my playtest report.

Lots of treats for your edification and entertainment true believers. Enjoy!
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Azraele

For the record, I am still writing this. I've just hit an inglorious stretch post-playtesting where I'm patching up and re-ordering over 300 pages of dense rules text. It's like trying to re-write an encyclopedia from memory.

So lots of work, but nothing really sexy to report. Like, would anybody even know what the hell I was talking about if I told you that I'd "strongly linked and bounded skill actions to the logic of the different scene speeds"?

No, of course you goddamn wouldn't. What is that garble?

But, much like Morgan Freeman's character in Batman Begins, I don't tell you so you understand; I tell you so you know how hard it is.
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Spinachcat

I really enjoyed reading your playtest. Made me want to run Kung Fu Gamma World.
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Quote from: Azraele;1082615Like, would anybody even know what the hell I was talking about if I told you that I'd "strongly linked and bounded skill actions to the logic of the different scene speeds"?

I do know WTF you're talking about and I am interested in how you're implementing that.

Give us an example of play.