OOC Chat — "Hoshihige Most Auspicious Inn"

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Personally the easiest system I've played in was Oriental Adventures, granted the general goal was a little strange magic bottle of Soy Sauce. But so long as making it easy for a nwebie like myself I'm happy to give it a go. Anything other than Bushido that you can play as? One thing I liked from OE was the Monk class, and there was another that was semi-similar to Monk....I played it once gave him a big badass staff that had a spiked club on one end or something like that, I think it is called a Tetsubo. At any rate that is something I'd like to play again

Both Bushido and Cold Iron allow for a variety of character types and have a good selection of weaponry. I don't recall how the OA Monk class compared to the regular AD&D Monk, I would say neither system implements anything quite like the AD&D Monk but unarmed combat specialists are possible in both systems, though I think both systems are a bit more grounded in reality so unarmed combat IS less effective than weaponry (doing subdual damage). For Cold Iron, I am happy to give effort to figuring out how other character types might work. I haven't written up Ninja for example, but expect them to be part of the system. Bushido has bushi, budoka (unarmed combat specialists), ninja, shugenja (sorcerors) and gakusho (priests) and the GM's have toyed with other character types also. Cold Iron wraps all the combat skills under a "fighter level" but allows for any combat skills under that. It then has sorcerors and clerics to handle magic. Since every Cold Iron character has a fighter level, it's possible to make fighting/magic mixes.