stuff from movies like 47 ronin and the great wall

[Daeglan 5,950]

how would you stat things like the kirin?

The Tengu swords?

The dog creatures attacking the wall?

The witch

 

 

 

[DSalazar 471]

The Tengu swords I would consider something like Omeka. Even with the rules in Shadowlands, it is impossible for a rank 6 Kakita Artisan to produce a blade like that with the given rules.

Granted, I've never watched any of these movies, so I will only pitch in with the blades.

[Daeglan 5,950]

52 minutes ago, Diogo Salazar said:

The Tengu swords I would consider something like Omeka. Even with the rules in Shadowlands, it is impossible for a rank 6 Kakita Artisan to produce a blade like that with the given rules.

Granted, I've never watched any of these movies, so I will only pitch in with the blades.

You should give 47 Ronin a watch. Just think of it as an L5R movie that barrows the story  

[neilcell 252]

I have watched the Keanu Reeves version.  While I agree that it is a good movie, the problem is that they should have ether stuck to the straight historical series of events without the supernatural overtones, or they should have gone with a completely new setting and characters, dispensing with the historical aspect.  The Ako incident does not play well with a larger than life high fantasy kind of story.  It was a decent fantasy story, but that is precisely why it was panned in Japan.

Oh, and Ko Shibasaki was quite the hottie.

[Daeglan 5,950]

1 hour ago, neilcell said:

I have watched the Keanu Reeves version.  While I agree that it is a good movie, the problem is that they should have ether stuck to the straight historical series of events without the supernatural overtones, or they should have gone with a completely new setting and characters, dispensing with the historical aspect.  The Ako incident does not play well with a larger than life high fantasy kind of story.  It was a decent fantasy story, but that is precisely why it was panned in Japan.

Oh, and Ko Shibasaki was quite the hottie.

I enjoyed it as a L5R movie. But when I saw the trailers I said not 47 ronin but looks fun.

Which is why i think it is ripe for barrowing elements for L5R

[AtoMaki 1,431]

The Tengu Swords would be unbreakable katanas that has Deadliness equal to the wielder's Honor Rank x 2. So they are just neat swords in the hands of the honorless, but they are absolutely deadly in the hands of the strong-hearted. 

The monsters from the Great Wall would use the profile of the Bear from the core rulebook but also have the Otherworldly trait. 

[Daeglan 5,950]

6 hours ago, AtoMaki said:

The Tengu Swords would be unbreakable katanas that has Deadliness equal to the wielder's Honor Rank x 2. So they are just neat swords in the hands of the honorless, but they are absolutely deadly in the hands of the strong-hearted. 

The monsters from the Great Wall would use the profile of the Bear from the core rulebook but also have the Otherworldly trait. 

I like it

What about the Which and the Kirin? 

[AtoMaki 1,431]

The Witch is tricky because her power set was "whatever the plot required". I would probably stat her as a Deadly Bloodspeaker with the Moon Cultist invocations added, and the ability to transform into an Otherworldly Fox or a Sinister Oni. 

I'm fairly sure that the Kirin is already in the core rulebook. 

[Daeglan 5,950]

1 hour ago, AtoMaki said:

The Witch is tricky because her power set was "whatever the plot required". I would probably stat her as a Deadly Bloodspeaker with the Moon Cultist invocations added, and the ability to transform into an Otherworldly Fox or a Sinister Oni. 

I'm fairly sure that the Kirin is already in the core rulebook. 

I guess the way to do the witch is to create the maho invocations for what she did and make them the appropriate level for their power level. I believe she would be a Kitsune

[Magnus Grendel 11,673]

Given it's size and the way it acted, I'd be tempted to use the Rhino from Path of Waves for the Ki-Rin.

9 hours ago, AtoMaki said:

The Tengu Swords would be unbreakable katanas that has Deadliness equal to the wielder's Honor Rank x 2. So they are just neat swords in the hands of the honorless, but they are absolutely deadly in the hands of the strong-hearted. 

Nice concept!

If you wanted to stick within existing stuff, a nemurani with someyhingnlike biting steel could work too - arguing that it's Kai's skills, as much as honour, that drives it.

The dog creatures I'd say use either wolves or - if you don't think them nasty enough - the Creating Waves wolf guardian. Bear in mind that's a scary adversary so a pack of them would be terrifying even for high-level samurai. Give them a disadvantage related to lodestone and you're good.

[neilcell 252]

Another good movie with elements you might want to add is Jackie Chan and Jet Li's movie "The Forbidden Kingdom".

[DSalazar 471]

There’s also The Kingdom. it can bring quite a Crab vibe, plus, the hats are awesome.

[Daeglan 5,950]

2 hours ago, neilcell said:

Another good movie with elements you might want to add is Jackie Chan and Jet Li's movie "The Forbidden Kingdom".

I liked that one too