Playtesting #xiongguo tonight. #ttrpg #ttrpgDesign

They make their money by gambling their martial skills in 'friendly' matches in towns. One fights, the other runs the numbers. What they've found is that they've found more honour and honesty among the thieves of the jianghu than they found among magistrates and officers.

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Two friends, deserters from the Royal Army, make their way through #xiongguo trying to stay ahead of the black hat army police and making their way through the jianghu underworld. Their reason for deserting was witnessing [injustice|corruption] and their other friend was killed for trying to report it. As witnesses, their life is forfeit.

And here’s one I commissioned for #xiongguo

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The aim is to produce something that could be used to play in a game of The Water Margin, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kingdom, The Pirates, Mr Vampire, Once Upon A Time In China, and others. It’s a little low magic to emulate Monkey or Zu Warriors.

Purists will note I’m not only crossing nations but immensely different time periods because, as I said, this isn’t trying to be a historical recreation.

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So, we begin the playtest for Xiongguo (working title) next week.

I’ve added some additional rules which are pilfered from other systems.

Xiongguo is a simple, fast, low magic, classless sandbox based in the YZE SRD for playing in an Asian period action adventure game. There is absolutely no attempt to emulate a particular period, only to evoke a certain feeling.