takobake samurai

Mind flayer samurai! What is there not to like!? Inspired by Flying Frog Productions Forbidden Fortress. These guys form the body-guard for the big-bad in my campaign – Anumaramon. TAKOBAKE SAMURAI Medium aberration, lawful evil Armor Class 15 (do and kusazuri) Hit Points 71 (13d8 + 13) Speed 30 ft. STR DEX […]

FALLEN SAMURAI

I am currently running an Oriental Adventures (OA) campaign called The Divine Heir and the Jade Regent loosely based around the Pathfinder Adventure Path the Jade Regent with strong influences from Sekiro. The first adventure is called The Ashina Legacy and is essentially The Brinewall Legacy set in and completely converted to an OA setting. I had to rewrite the adventure […]

MARTIAL ARCHETYPE: KENSAI

Though I decided against making a yakuza class – I think the basic rouge covers this well enough – the kensai is unique enough to have its own archetype in Oriental Adventures. You can find other classes for OA here. KENSAI Kensai means “sword saint” or “swordmaster” and is usually applied to characters who have perfected the art […]

PSYCHIC DUELS

A new option for 5e Oriental Adventures. The rules are taken from 3e OA with little modification (which is was taken from 1e OA with little development work as well – none really needed). They work fine almost as is 5e. PSYCHIC DUELS Far less lethal than an iaijutsu duel, a psychic duel involves two samurai staring each other down—focusing their energy […]

MARTIAL ARCHETYPE: SAMURAI

With the original three core Oriental Adventures races complete (korobokuru, hengeyokai, and spirit folk) I can move on to classes. I thought about creating these classes from whole cloth and maybe some of the later ones will require it, but, the samurai I believe works much better as an archetype. The use of archetypes makes creating new variant […]