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Otaidokan has a pending expansion with more options and a GM Agenda. I will possibly give a good wash to The Forge of Tokurenkai and expand it with images to keep all things together.
I first thougt of using Dungeon World's DM Agenda as a base, then went for Urban Shadows' as the tone is more for intrigues and politics. I might still use Urban Shadows as a base but I have found as well Thousand Arrows, another Samurai-themed Pbta ttrpg which, with some adjustments, could work well.
Here is my first draw:
GM AGENDA
- Fill the Sapphire Island with war and intrigues.
- Make the players’ character choices matter
- Play with a mind unfettered
- Always say what your rules, honesty, consistency, and principles demand
PRINCIPLES OF THE GM
- Paint the war in blood and ink
- Address characters, not players
- Cloak moves in the fog of war
- Draw maps, leave blanks
- Give everyone names, pasts, and objectives.
- Treat everyone according to their status
- Ask questions and build on the answers
- Be a fan of the players’ characters
- Sometimes, let someone else decide
GM MOVES
- Separate them.
- Spring a trap.
- Harm them.
- Dishonour them.
- Drain their resources.
- Threat something precious.
- Show them their gear’s limitations .
- Turn nature against them.
- Shift range (fists, spears, arrows …) and/or scale (strategic, tactical, personal …).
- Tempt an individual to betray the group.
- Question their loyalty
- Question their training.
- Reveal their liege’s weakness.
- Reveal their subject’s strength.
- Put all the attention on them.
- Announce an unwelcome truth
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Otaidokan, the Sapphire Island
Samurai-themed ttrpg
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Author | Warbriel |
Tags | PbtA, samurai, Tabletop role-playing game |
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