Dark Nihon: Corruption System (Optional Subsystem)

Design Note: In my campaign, I started using this system, which is a modified/simplified version of Taint from the 3rd Edition Oriental Adventures book, but in the end, I dropped it. There were too many things to track. I just said negative honor triggered anything with the Darklands/Shadowlands/Taint keyword. Corruption System (Optional) This optional system […]

Tsukumogami for Pathfinder 2e

In 5e, I created weapons that would grow as characters got more powerful, as this fit my Oriental Campaign at the time (Jade Regent). It makes more sense in a society that sees looting the dead as sacrilegious to the extreme. You can find all the examples here, but they are similar to Legacy Weapons […]

Archetype: Geisha (pf2e)

She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters): Six years, I dragged myself, kicking and screaming, into health clubs, and zilch! Now, one little green blood transfusion from you and… va voom!

[throws off her hat]

Oriental Adventures inspired setting for D&D 5e – Dark Nihon

I decided to create a “Wotc IP free” version of my Oriental Adventure setting book, which you can find on DriveThru RPG. I’ll also add that you can watch a live play of the rules over on Twitch every week by the Warlord of Ippon gang.

Storm Oni Iogaka

In season of the ghost I wanted to turn Iogaka into an oni that would challenge 5 level 5 characters. Here is the conversion/update of her to make her into an oni (some of these updates are specific to how oni’s are portrayed in my game world):

Spinner of Threads bonus Lessons

I wanted to add more character to the patron of one of my PCs patron – The Spinner of Threads (or Sanjin in my game of Season of the Ghost). I thought a good mechanism for this would be the Lesson feats. Since I have alway liked the idea of the Patrons from the DCC […]

5e Oriental Adventures 2.4

So, I have been working diligently in the background to improve the quality of this document. It was initially just a brain dump of my ideas and DM notes after running a 1 to 20 Oriental Adventure campaign a few years back. However, it’s a setting I like and seems to be something others like […]

The Katana of the Lich Shogun’s Eternal Shogunate

This is item was a reward from the “Frozen in Time” adventure the knight/cavalier in my party picked up which was then lost and upgraded due to a Deck of Many Things card pull by the same player. As its a Japanese weapon I made it a kami weapon (tsukumogami). Like all tsukumogami it grows in power as the […]

Arcane Chocobo (Giant Chicken) Familiar

A chicken familiar (hen) exposed to high levels of radiation during an adventure turns into a chocobo-like creature. Eventually, my player lost this familiar, re-summoned, and got a demonic version and eventually got the arcane version. It’s the same spirit just taking different forms. The chocobo is called Diabexes – because it’s fat and loves […]

Mutant Chocobo

A chicken familiar (“Hen”) exposed to high levels of radiation during an adventure turns into a chocobo-like creature. CHOCOBO (Mutant Chicken) Large beast, unaligned Armor Class 11 Hit Points19 (3d10 + 3) Speed 20 ft., fly 40 ft. (drift) STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 18 (+4) 12 (+1) 13 (+1) 5 (-3) 12 (+1) 7 (-2)Skill Perception +5 Senses darkvision 60 […]