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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8900944" data-attributes="member: 85555">I love Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The Penguin edition translated by Minford is very accessible and affordable, but it only contains about 100 of the stories from Pu Songling's book (it is also at times more on the poetic rather than accurate end of translation from what I understand, but I personally prefer that). If you want a more complete version, and one that is more accurate, you might try the Chinese Classics edition which comes in four volumes (this is much more expensive though). You can also see Pu Songling's stories in movies like A Chinese Ghost Story (1987 version), Painted Skin (many versions of this but I recommend the 2008 version or the early 90s version by King Hu). The sequel to painted skin, Painted Skin Resurrection is really great but not as connected to the source material. The film A Touch of Zen is also apparently Pu Songling inspired but I think it is less obvious. Some of the accounts are full fledged stories (like the one that A Chinese Ghost Story is based on), and some are just strange things that happened to someone. They are all pretty solid though in terms of giving a GM ideas If you haven't seen A Chinese Ghost Story I highly recommend watching that (it is a kind of romantic ghost story blended with action, comedy and horror). And Touch of Zen is an astounding movie but requires a little more work as a viewer. I watched it again last week (the last time I had seen it was probably over ten years ago). I quite like movies and directors that blend image and music in an evocative way. Excalibur is just such a beautiful film, and has an operatic quality that always carries me from one sequence to the next (when I watched it last week I had meant to only watch the beginning to see that scene where Siegfried's Funeral Music swells during the battle, but I kept going on to the next scene, and the next, until it was like 2 or 3 am).</blockquote>

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