Western Empire
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dragon_blaze_99
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Re: Western Empire
no theres nothing oriental in the western empire, other then the books you already listed the ninjas and superspys, it has some more modern stuff and martial arts, a some Japanese's skills
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Re: Western Empire
Western Empire is one of my favorite Palladium books. It's not "eastern" though. The mask is probably for a masquerade ball.
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Re: Western Empire
All right, let me save the day here folks. (I love doing that!) There is a Rifter, which I have but can't remember the number of right now, that deals with converting the orient into PF! It includes the use of martial arts and martial art powers and abilities from N&SS as well as going in depth into Samurais and ninjas and the like. I have a player that is playing an elven samurai and it works wonderfully. If you go to the Rifter forum and check out the sticky dealing with what is in each Rifter by issue, you should be able to find out which one. Otherwise, I might be convinced to look through my dozens of Rifters to find it. Good luck, and good gaming!
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Re: Western Empire
There you go. And in the futre, Mr. Hall is an excellent source of information. He's probably the first person I'd go to myself. Good luck with the samurai stuff.
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Re: Western Empire
Personally, I'm not a fan of a samurai and ninja type of orient in Palladium Fantasy. I've had some vague thoughts about Land of the South Winds being somewhat Southeast Asian, but nothing concrete.
However, if you're looking for samurai type gear, Palladium's got a couple options. The Compendium of Weapons, Armor and Castles is your go-to source, but there's also the Book of Weapons & Armor, the Book of Weapons & Castles, or the Book of Weapons and Assassins. However, they use a very different system for armor than the rest of Palladium (they're some of the earlier works).
Closest you can find to samurai armor in Palladium's normal system is probably going to be Splint Armor; it's numbers in the CWAC system are pretty close to Splint Mail/Laminated. Call a katana a bastard sword, a short sword a wakizashi, and you've got a decent set-up for numbers. Steal a bit from N&SS or Rifts: Japan and go.
However, if you're looking for samurai type gear, Palladium's got a couple options. The Compendium of Weapons, Armor and Castles is your go-to source, but there's also the Book of Weapons & Armor, the Book of Weapons & Castles, or the Book of Weapons and Assassins. However, they use a very different system for armor than the rest of Palladium (they're some of the earlier works).
Closest you can find to samurai armor in Palladium's normal system is probably going to be Splint Armor; it's numbers in the CWAC system are pretty close to Splint Mail/Laminated. Call a katana a bastard sword, a short sword a wakizashi, and you've got a decent set-up for numbers. Steal a bit from N&SS or Rifts: Japan and go.
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Re: Western Empire
Maybe you can find a copy of Weapons, Armor & Castles of the Orient written by Matthew Balent and published by Palladium Books. It uses that non-megaversal armour system, too.
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Re: Western Empire
Mark Hall wrote:Personally, I'm not a fan of a samurai and ninja type of orient in Palladium Fantasy. I've had some vague thoughts about Land of the South Winds being somewhat Southeast Asian, but nothing concrete.
However, if you're looking for samurai type gear, Palladium's got a couple options. The Compendium of Weapons, Armor and Castles is your go-to source, but there's also the Book of Weapons & Armor, the Book of Weapons & Castles, or the Book of Weapons and Assassins. However, they use a very different system for armor than the rest of Palladium (they're some of the earlier works).
Closest you can find to samurai armor in Palladium's normal system is probably going to be Splint Armor; it's numbers in the CWAC system are pretty close to Splint Mail/Laminated. Call a katana a bastard sword, a short sword a wakizashi, and you've got a decent set-up for numbers. Steal a bit from N&SS or Rifts: Japan and go.
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Re: Western Empire
Try Amazon. I've had really good luck getting stuff from them.
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"Unhand me you slobbering son of an Orcish whore!" - Ariana Moonstone, Palladin (Another primary character of mine.)
"Bastard!" War cry of Strut, Barbarian Mercenary. (That's for you James!)
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"Unhand me you slobbering son of an Orcish whore!" - Ariana Moonstone, Palladin (Another primary character of mine.)
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Re: Western Empire
PlainDre wrote:Bugger! There used to be a compendium of weapons, armor and castles!?!? Missed out on that one (unless I do as you advised and look it up on Amazon, or ebay for that matter).
If Kevin has any more of those books in stock, he may bring them to Gencon Indy in a few weeks? If I'm lucky, I can pick up a copy there or something.....
I don't know...something to consider....
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I've ordered the Weapons and Armor, and I have the Weapons and Castles, the Weapons and Assassins, and the Weapons and Castles of the Orient. I find the 2nd one is more about sieging, the 3rd deals with assassinations and tools of the trade, and the final book is the all about Oriental armor, weapons, and their versions of medieval castles.