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The Nature of The Game – Set in the mythic China of every kung fu movie, Weapons of the Gods is the roleplaying game of Wuxia Action – the chinese martial arts fantasy tradition. When you play the game, you are transported in your imagination to a time when words had to be backed with action – action powered by your martial arts prowess!

What You Can Play - Complete in one volume, the game has everything you need to enter fourth-century China – a time of which few records exist, save as a few tales, tales which you will write with your friends. When you enter the game, you choose one of three Archetypes – the kinds of character concepts that participate in the Martial Arts World, the larger community of kung fu warriors. The Archetypes are broad types of character, loose enough to let you create the kind of the character you want within the context of the setting. The Three Archetypes are Warriors, those who fight directly, with fist and weapon; Courtiers, who engage in the subtle conflicts that influence individuals and drive entire societies; and Scholars, collectors of all information, esoteric and mundane – able to warp the course of fate and fortune with what they learn. Each Archetype is big enough to hold whatever character concept that interests a player; it’s all about the challenge that interests them – Warriors like conflict, Courtiers are into influencing people and events, and Scholars like to collect information and mystic lore!

Interesting Rules – Weapons of the Gods comes with its own easy –to-use rules set – simply roll your skill in ten-sided dice (die pools never exceed 7 or 8 at most), add in whatever bonuses you get from weapon or martial art you’re using, and that’s all there is to it! No seeking for tons of bonuses to add up, just take the best and go. Combat is tactical and interesting, evoking the feel of martial arts movies with move, counter-move and maneuvering for position.

Plenty to Do – Wuxia Fiction is always about politics – it’s about what people want, what they’re willing to do to get it, and what they’re willing to risk! While powerful kung fu and divine magic weapons certainly are important, in wuxia, it’s what you want to do with them that counts! The game handles all scales of story – if your players want to topple the Unrighteous Emperor and install the rightful heir to the throne, they can… or try to take it and keep it for themselves. Weapons of the Gods can even handle a group of players deciding to found their own kung fu clan, and build it up to become a power in the land!

How It Plays – Imagine two beginning-level characters meet at a bridge - Xiao Li Pai, the Orphaned Sword Princess is blocked by an old rival – Emerald Zilong, a suitor that she rather harshly turned down in a proposal for marriage. He is now always wishing to prove his power and virtue to her, much to her (greater) annoyance! Maybe she should have just married the fool…

Zilong: “Hah – you will not cross this bridge unless you can knock my spear from my hand!”

Pai: “Hmph! As if I haven’t done that before!”

Zilong flushes. “That was different – that was then, this is now!” He attacks.

• Zilong rolls his Initiative Skill – 5 dice, yielding 4 4 4 6 8, for a 34, +10 for the Speed of his Spear, for a total of 44.
• Pai rolls her Initiative Skill – 5 dice, yielding 6 6 8 10 10, for a 26, +5 for the Speed of her Sword, for a total of 36. She drops the two 10s into her River for later use.
• Zilong rolls his Melee (Spear) Skill - 5 dice, yielding 1 6 6 6 8 for a 36, +10 for an attack of 46; he invokes Rolling Wave Attack, a kung fu technique which adds his Silver Chi Bonus of +10 for a final of 56! (To make matters worse for Pai, her armor will be reduced by 5 points for the ferocity of this attack.) His spear blurs into a multitude of strikes, the shining point jabbing at her like a dozen weapons!
• Pai decides to somesault backwards out of the way of the flurry of spear strikes; she rolls her Dodge (Evasive Leaps) Skill to block; 5 dice, yielding 8 9 9 9 10, for an attack of 39, +10 for her using Lightfoot 3 (Headlong Flying Leap) to bounce away backwards in a series of somersaults! But wait, she tosses in a die from her Chi Aura and luckily gets another 9, for a total of 59… totally evading his frightening attack entirely!

Features – The Weapons of the Gods roleplaying game includes:

• • Luxurious full-color interior art by Hong Kong kung-fu comic imprimatur Tony Wong, with helpful page-edge art that helps you find your way around the book quickly
• • Point-based character build system with illustrated examples, with a freely-available Character generator easily downloaded.
• • Chinese history and culture in easily read and digested chunks called ‘Lores’ – can be used in character creation to directly hook into the setting!
• • Simple rules – roll ten-sided dice equal to your skill, with martial arts applying additional colorful and wide-ranging series of effects
• • Interesting and genre-appropriate systems such as Joss (use your luck for yourself or against your foes) or the River of Conflict (store valuable dice rolls for later in the battle!)

Weapons of the Gods
Wuxia Action Series
Hardcover RPG Core Book, 384 pp.
Release Date: December 2005
Retail Price: $39.95
Stock #: EOS 1100
ISBN: 0-9710642-6-1

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