After rewatching Into the Badlands along with several Wuxia things, I now have a strong desire for a hack meant to emulate things from Wuxia. Not sure if it will take the form of a new school based gang playbook or a more comprehensive hack. Hell, if I’m not able to carve out some time it may not go any further than this post. I just really like the idea of using the Blades mechanics to emulate Wuxia.
After rewatching Into the Badlands along with several Wuxia things, I now have a strong desire for a hack meant to…
After rewatching Into the Badlands along with several Wuxia things, I now have a strong desire for a hack meant to…
The great thing about fiction first is that as long as people have the same general sense of a thing’s capacity, you don’t need stats for it. You can use the exact same combat rules for bare-knuckle realistic fighting that you do for nancing about in trees with lightning streaking from swords, as long as you agree on what should be possible for standard effect and what a level 2 injury looks like. =)
Exactly why I think so highly of Blades as a rules set. It is very easy to get bogged down in those sorts of mechanics in other games, while Blades just let’s you make it happen. You only need to give weight to what supports the themes you want to focus on.
In this hypothetical Wuxia hack, I think my first focus would be looking at the stress loop and seeing if I need to tweak it to focus on the idea of social virtues, responsibility, and deference that are synonymous with the genre.