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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5374929" data-attributes="member: 50895">I am currently buidling a dark fantasy setting inspired by feudal Japan, called <a href="http://ritepublishing.com/kaidan.html" target="_blank">Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story</a> setting, being an imprint under Rite Publishing, and should be available early 2011.Things I did to make it a dark setting...1. The setting is founded based on a curse uttered during a tragic event.2. All provincial rulers, the imperial court and shogunate including the 5 year old boy emperor are ghosts - tied to the curse mentioned above.3. Raise Dead and Resurrection magic does not work.4. Reincarnation is tied to the setting, one's place in society depends on your actions in a previous ife, as your actions today determine your place in the next life (through a mechanic called Karma) - one can multiclass across multiple lifetimes.5. When one reincarnates, they may or may not remember everything in their past life (they might lose levels in the crossing.)6. Becoming a ghost is all too easy, many requirements at the moment of death are demanded, even at PC death, not doing so appropriately leads to undead (NPC) status.7. Despite the presence of non-human races hiding in wilderness enclaves or in shape-changed form in the setting, the setting is very much humanocentric, so non-humans seem out of place.8. Oni demons on dark agendas can be found in shape-changed form stalking and seducing those they can.9. A social caste system is hard-wired to the reincarnation mechanic, and the universe exists in its own alternate cosmology, a cursed one.10. Many historical and mythical instances from Japan used in the setting that never had been included before in previously published setting, so while dark and spooky, its also more authentically Japanese - this enhances the suspension of disbelief for players and GMs.These are the elements I've included in Kaidan to make it dark, to an otherwise very Japanese feudal fantasy setting.GP</blockquote>

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