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As a Mandarin student and China enthusiast, I found this game fantastic. It is clear to me the care and interest of the author in the subject of Chinese ghosts stories, and I now am even motivated to read/watch the inspirational material myself. Great work!
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I don't like many games besides oldschool D&D. There's a lot of derivative crap out there. For anyone interested in Wuxia or fantastic Medieval China, this is about as real as it gets. There's an intricate system of martial arts, skills and rituals so you have to be into that. There's also an elaborate setting, complete with bestiary, a library of enchanted objects, sample adventures, sample dungeons, a regional map, a whole codex of NPCs you name it. I don't know if its a masterpiece, but its a damn fine effort, and a damn fine game. The author plays regularly and shares play reports of his work on his blog. Recommended.
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Nicely written and fun. Author was also incredibly responsive. The original preview stopped before getting to the interesting parts of the book, so he resubmitted the preview to allow more useful information to be shown!
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Extra spells for free for an awesome game/setting? Hell yeah, brother
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Two extra player "classes" for free that capture the essence of the classic thief and warrior archetype from other RPG's. The base game is completely lit as well.
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The Introduction recounts some of the inspirations for this game, the chief being Robert Graves's I, Claudius and Claudius the God novels. Those happen to be the exact novels that got me interested in Roman history. And you can easily influence world history from there!
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For full disclosure, I was a reader for this game. Strange Tales of Songling has a streamlined version of the rules from the wuxia game Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate. As such you can pick one of the four paths ( classes) Demon Hunter, Ritual Master, Wandering Sword, or Scholar, pick a few skills and abilities and begin playing in no time at all.
The game focuses on the supernatural and has several suggested play styles from the default monster of the week to sandbox campaigns.
So if you like " Fu" and the supernatural as seen in films like Chinese Ghost Story this might be the game for you.
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A great game that with a great system at a cheap price. What's more to ask?
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Never felt so much necessity to comment and review a book, the amount of work and content is ridicolous. I've never seen such a good Chinese-based RPG, the content is clearly written by people who actually know a lot about Chinese culture, possibly they even lived there. Comparing with other asian-themed products, this one particularly have light of its own, and has a deep an interesting setting, which saves a lot of work for people that don't know much about Asian culture.
For any Fan of Wuxia, Xianxia, Martial Arts, DBZ, Crouching tiger hidden dragon; this is a phenomal addition, deserves as many donations as possible. Recommend it 100%.
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While I didn't really click with the rules and mechanics, they seem quite functional and complete. More than anything I appreciated Bedrock Games inclusion of a good setting and better NPCs and martial arts sects. They have a great grasp of what makes wuxia interesting to me, and are one to watch.
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This game is a detailed and realistic look at the mafia. Detailed character creation that is shorter than Pathfinder but maybe a little longer than traditional OSR systems. Good production values. Clear writing. Pick it up.
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Comprehensive and spot-on for the genre. When Bedrock Games describes this as "completely self-contained", they aren't kidding. Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate is an easy to read, well written, straight forward system (d10 based) and straight forward presentation. Nealry 500 pages long, WHoOG includes a fictional setting (riffing off the Song Dynasty), martial arts techniques, sects, adversaries (standard, wuxia martial artists, monsters and demons), and a sample adventure, along with plenty of genre and GM guidance. GMs would find themselves very well supported for a one-shot, campaign or all points between.
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A really awesome product. Authors show a great knowledge of the genre and know how to dive you into a wuxia world. Good job guys!
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Great wuxia supplement! The Sect can easily be used for PCs and villains alike, or even transplanted to other settings, in which case the meaning of the Chinese names can be used for sobriquets of criminals.
I mean, that's a supplement with criminal religious organisation, there's almost nothing setting-specific about it!
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Very interesting full game with inexpensive suppliments coming out rapidly. Definitely worth picking up if you're interested at all in a Wuxia genre type game.
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