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That sounds cool! I just worked through the foibles of a Shugenja for the other game. PM me with any questions and I'll be glad to walk you through.spanningtree wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:58 amI am thinking about a Shugenja profession with an angle based on discontent with the powerful Buddhist temples that have been lead astray or corrupted by wealth and power. The character would be more of a Taoist/philosopher/ascetic but has respects for religions that follow harmonious paths, hence the distaste for the currently evolving situation. Thoughts?
Many thanks, I may have to take you up on the offer.
I've never heard of it, but it sounds awesome. I will definitely rent it.jemmus wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:41 am Kwaidan ("Ghost Stories"), an old 1965 Japanese film, is great for getting the feel of Nippon of this era. And just a great movie all-around, to me at least. It's four or so short stories that were originally written by Lafcadio Hearn. Lafcadio was an interesting Greek-Irish journalist who had to emigrate to different places around the world, and from 1890 to the end of his life lived in Japan. Not the urban part, but the foggy, chilly, northern backwater part facing the sea to Korea. He married a Japanese wife, lived a rural life, and recorded folk ghost stories as short stories, in English. Kwaidan makes a film of a few of them. Really nice colorful and kind of stylized visuals and acting, I think.
In any event, great stuff for the backstory of Nippon samurai, heimin, and gakusho of Nippon. They got the armor, weapons and clothing spot on. (There's a subtle tricky part in the "Earless Hoichi" segment, where the ghosts themselves get their armor wrong. It's bright steel and kind of pre-steampunk. When the armor turns back to oranges and other bright colors of braided silk, that's when the ghosts went back centuries and got it right....) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwaidan_(film)
It's streaming on Amazon Prime, but $3.99 to rent. But 85% of viewers give it a 5.