ShogunMaker (Inactive)

Game Master Thackery Baxter J Thorington

Roles in Government
Noble Born and Provinces of Lingshen
What's Each Country Like?
Reiki Box (how to Spoof a Healer)
[Time in Tian Xia (now with Gengs--the actual name for a double-hour!)

The Hook:

The local magistrate of the the has given you an imperial charter: go north into the monster-ridden borderlands of Shenmen, and subdue the area. The lands you claim will be yours and your descendents’ until the end of time, as a vassal province of Lingshen. King Huang himself signed the decree!

The game will open with a brief introduction with a functionary (Kui Xing) and the official order to pacify the savage frontier of Shenmen. You don’t need to know each other before, although such connections could be useful (and exploitable) in the game.

The Sandbox:

Other than the general idea of “go north, young man”, kill things, and build a buffer realm, the game has very few defined “goals”. There is a plot. It’s a good plot, too. And, key plot events will happen when… it’s convenient for them to happen. I can delay things indefinitely if you people are caught up pursuing personal interests or other leads. This game, above all other games, is meant to be a sandbox. If, say, someone wants to create a band of Tian Hellknights to go out and destroy chaos, fine, we’ll make it happen (we might even work out ways to remove the icky Asmodeus stuff which really doesn’t fit Tian Xia’s flavor). If you want to develop a logging company and drain the woods of their natural resources for fun and profit, we’ll find a way to make you a logger baron. Want to build a wizard tower and establish the next Hogwarts? Cool. Dumbledore the heck out of your character. Want to become a lich to better protect the realm and slaughter the enemies of Lingshen? Sweet, perfect. We’ll start the horcruxes, yesterday. Increase the followers of your church? Start picking your altar boys. Point is, there is a plot. It will happen, eventually. The character interests’ come first. Everything else can happen around you people.

Dice "macros"

Initiatives:

Hu Boalin: [dice]1d20+1[/dice]
Hu Xiang Lun: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Jian Xi: [dice]1d20+3[/dice]
Lady Jade Moon: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Narukami Hayashi: [dice]1d20+6[/dice]
Tsui Dawei: [dice]1d20+6[/dice]
Qinglong: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Antagonists: [dice]1d20+7[/dice]

Perception checks:

Hu Boalin: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Hu Xiang Lun: [dice]1d20+1[/dice]
Jian Xi: [dice]1d20+4[/dice]
Lady Jade Moon: [dice]1d20+0[/dice]
Narukami Hayashi: [dice]1d20+6[/dice]
Tsui Dawei: [dice]1d20+7[/dice]
Qinglong: [dice]1d20+4[/dice]

Fort Saves:

Hu Boalin: [dice]1d20+1[/dice]
Hu Xiang Lun: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Jian Xi: [dice]1d20+4[/dice]
Lady Jade Moon: [dice]1d20+1[/dice]
Narukami Hayashi: [dice]1d20+4[/dice]
Tsui Dawei: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Qinglong:[dice]1d20+3[/dice]
Antagonists: [dice]1d20+1[/dice]

Ref Saves:

Hu Boalin: [dice]1d20+1[/dice]
Hu Xiang Lun: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Jian Xi: [dice]1d20+3[/dice]
Lady Jade Moon: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Narukami Hayashi: [dice]1d20+6[/dice]
Tsui Dawei: [dice]1d20+4[/dice]
Qinglong:[dice]1d20+4[/dice]
Antagonists: [dice]1d20+5[/dice]

Will Saves:

Hu Boalin: [dice]1d20+4/dice]
Hu Xiang Lun: [dice]1d20+3[/dice]
Jian Xi: [dice]1d20+0[/dice]
Lady Jade Moon: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Narukami Hayashi: [dice]1d20+2[/dice]
Tsui Dawei: [dice]1d20+6[/dice]
Qinglong:[dice]1d20+0[/dice]
Antagonists: [dice]1d20-1[/dice]