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Message: <blockquote data-quote="defendi" data-source="post: 6794288" data-attributes="member: 53467">That's a start, but probably not nearly enough. In a proper asian campaign, at the very least a major subplot should be conflict between what the characters should be doing and what society demands they do.Let me give you an example. When we were playing L5R, one of the players asked for an ascestor that would answer one yes or no question a session. Fearing it was WAY too powerful, he cleared it with the gm, who understanding the game better, agreed without blinking. We were magistrates hunting some evil doer, and thinking he had the "I win" button, the player asked his anscestor, "Did the daimyo do it?""Yep," the GM said cheerfully.And that's when we realized the real conflict. Figuring out who the bad guy was didn't even really figure into to the adventure. The real conflict was the fact that the man who did it could have us executed with a word, and while our status meant he couldn't just kill us willy nilly without angering the Emperor all that he needed was the SLIGHTEST excuse to justify it and we were all dead (which would be bad) or disgraced (which would be worse).Every mystery in that game involved us guessing the bad guy on our first try and then falling to, "Okay. So how do we prove it in their legal system, in a way that doesn't give them the right to kill us, or start a war between two clans, or disgrace our own lords, or just get so unpleasant that we're no longer welcome among the society in which we have to function."</blockquote>

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