Currently I'm running a Qin game, it's a great setting that is beautifully and succinctly set out in the book, but with tons of detail too.  The setting is in fact worth the price of admission alone, it's full of details you can drop in from time to time and is naturally suitable for adventure.

The game also has I think the best price list I've seen in a long time, I'll start a different thread on that though.

The system, not sure yet, the basic mechanic is easy enough but there's a lot of stuff to keep track of, Taos, combat techniques, spells, and they vary hugely in utility.

We discovered that the pregen taoist has among his two magical abilities what seems to basically be an indigestion cure, which while useful is not perhaps the stuff of high wuxia drama.

I slightly regret that not everyone can do the whole leaping about and running on bamboo thing, those are abilities you buy and most characters don't have them, there is an element of that old rpg paradigm where I buy a game because I want hot wuxia action and if we play for a year solid we should get that.  It's not as bad as that actually, we did get a rooftop chase which seemed pretty in genre to me, but most PCs couldn't participate in it.

Overall I'm as yet undecided, I will likely give it another go after the current adventure ends Monday night so it's good enough to make me want to replay, but I'm not sure yet if it has real legs for me, it may be a bit too fiddly.  Not sure.

Anyone else given it a go here and have some thoughts on it?

Quote from: BalbinusAnyone else given it a go here and have some thoughts on it?

Well I've only read it, but it seems to come from the low end of Wuxia--the end of folklore and myth, not the high "magic" wuxia games.

It seems very much like a game where an "Ogre" is troubling a village and after some fights it falls down and groans with its terrible stomach ailment and then, what do you know, you cure its stomach and all is peaceful as it goes back to its home again.

 Yes there are powerful martial art techniques that do amazing things, but the focus is on something a little more realistic than the high action over the top movies, and is more like the folk stories of the knights themselves.

We are still at the beginning. Our GM decided, that we will play without magic at first, because he hasn't learned the rules for that part yet. :rolleyes:

The character creation is pretty complicated at first, but interesting and fun than. System so far seems simple enought to grasp easily. We didn't play that much, because GM wanted us to know the setting and he really loves far east religion and philosophy and such... so he has a decent four hour lecture at the beginning...

Well more on the game later... once we will really move into it. But I like it...

Quote from: SilverlionIt seems very much like a game where an "Ogre" is troubling a village and after some fights it falls down and groans with its terrible stomach ailment and then, what do you know, you cure its stomach and all is peaceful as it goes back to its home again.

i could totally get into a game like this.  very intriguing!  when i hear wuxia it usually turns me off as too over-the-top.

keep pitching this, guys.  i need a new game. . .  

Quote from: beeberi could totally get into a game like this.  very intriguing!  when i hear wuxia it usually turns me off as too over-the-top.

keep pitching this, guys.  i need a new game. . .  

It's not that over the top, when I described it to my group I made sure they understood it was more historical Chinese fantasy than movie wuxia as otherwise they would all have taken a pasting in the first battle.

that was the impression i got when pundit described it some months ago in another thread IIRC.  

i guess it's semantics, but i initially read (in that earlier thread) historical chinese fantasy, and said, "yeah!"  but when i see wuxia, i go all :what:  :rolleyes:  even though i loved crouching tiger etc.  then again, i like the cinematic in my movies, not my games, FWIW :shrug:

more with the coolness!    

Well, you can definitely run Wuxia with it, but its closer to Crouching Tiger than to Hero or Dragon Ball or something...

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