[DF]Demon Filled Japan

[scc]

OK I was recently remind of the Anime Addventure thread Wonder About Zero and could only think how interesting it would be to RP, for those who haven't had the pleasure to read it (The site is gone now, so you'll have to scrounge up a copy of the download) the very short history is this:

In the 1500's demons become very active in Japan, so active in fact that the country ended up unified defeating a practicality nasty one. Fast forward to today and Japan only has half the population it has in real life because a lot of people left 150 years ago during or after a major demon war.

So you have a modern setting, just with this one area that has a lot of monsters in the backwoods.

Adventuring types will include things like samurai, miko's and martial artists alongside more modern character concepts, like gunmen and adventure archeologists.

[roguebfl]

My first step would make sure to use Oni instead of Demons for theme reasons 8)

[scc]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

My first step would make sure to use Oni instead of Demons for theme reasons 8)

Yep, all monsters would of course be Japanese, as would most spell casting (I figure that western witches and druids would be kind of hard to find in Japan, even after 500 years).

The whole thing about katana's being better is probably justified in this timeline, killing a demon being a major desirable characteristic of a sword, must are of very fine quality and heavily enchanted.

Guns never caught on in the monster hunting business, because so many need to be killed by magical weapons and you can't do that with guns (at least not the ones that matter) and bullets don't offer a major cost-break compared to swords.

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by scc

Guns never caught on in the monster hunting business, because so many need to be killed by magical weapons and you can't do that with guns (at least not the ones that matter) and bullets don't offer a major cost-break compared to swords.

So no magic bullets? I'm assuming you can't enchant an arrow either then. [ Penetrating weapon not getting the divide by 10 on cost for being a missile ]

[scc]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

So no magic bullets? I'm assuming you can't enchant an arrow either then. [ Penetrating weapon not getting the divide by 10 on cost for being a missile ]

Enchanted bullets would not enjoy enough of a cost discount against swords to make them worth while.

As for arrows, technically not, but all you'd need to make one viable against a demon is to tie an ofuda to one, they do sort of exist.

[Bruno]

"all you have to do" - I presume you mean wrap the ofuda around the arrow shaft.

My first mental picture was tying it on like a gift tag, and that just can't be good for accuracy :)

[scc]

Originally Posted by Bruno

"all you have to do" - I presume you mean wrap the ofuda around the arrow shaft.

My first mental picture was tying it on like a gift tag, and that just can't be good for accuracy :)

If you're in a pitched field battle you might just do that because the range, but as most battle will be at close range and speed will likely be more of an issue.

Also remember that it being attached like a gift tag looks more dramatic.

[simply Nathan]

Originally Posted by roguebfl

My first step would make sure to use Oni instead of Demons for theme reasons 8)

There are many appropriate youkai other than oni, "demons" being a broader and not-completely-overlapping category from "youkai" and certainly broader than "oni".

[scc]

Originally Posted by Hellboy

Perhaps a deal could be worked out similar to the other stuff at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...em_conversions for a "GURPS Black Tokyo" to be developed?

I don't like D20 much and find the large amount of games in that series confusing. If all of that material could be condensed into 1 book and given GURPS 4e stats, that would be an attractive product, if Chris A. Field would sign on for it.

I don't know if he knows the system though, would any of the present GURPS writers be interested in doing something like that?

Actually garbing GURPS Japan in the current sale would probably be a good start