As an era dies,
so too do heroes, in a...
Cherry Blossom Rain
In a Sengoku Sunset...A heroic lord rose to great heights, and they called him a tyrant. When his foes treacherously murdered him, they called that dark day a miracle and forced the peasants across the land to celebrate their own oppression. The emperor himself, under the threat of the cruel men that held him captive, ordered the deaths of the heroic lord's family. Everyone expected seppuku, but the dark men traveled forth anyway, to enforce the emperor's coerced edict. The heroic lord's dream teeters on the cusp of extinction, and the last of his great and loyal retainers face a terrible decision:
How can they make their deaths count?
The Heroes
The Sky -- Red with War...Ryunosuke's Alliance
The Loyal Forces of the Shogunate
Unaligned Clans
ResourcesPlaytest:
Cherry Blossom Rain is my exploration of the complexities and depths of GURPS Martial Arts. Also: samurai, because samurai are awesome. My guiding books in this venture (if you want to follow along) are GURPS: Martial Arts and GURPS Classic: Japan. Cherry Blossom Rain further explores the elements of tragedy, honor, family, mastery and friendship found in many chambara or shonen anime works. Explicitly, I've designed this campaign to end in the deaths of the player characters, with the hope that they'll find some way to make their sacrifice matter.
GURPS is a toolkit, and in the pursuit of turning it into the perfect game, I've carefully combed over its various tomes for the perfect collection of optional rules. This culminated in three "playtests" where I simulated combat against three ashigaru and then between two samurai, which I have included below. I've collated the results into a single summary, listed in the resource section below.
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