(IRR) The Other Industrial Revolutions

[Creamsteak]

Important Characters of Rokugan
NPCs (Optional Player Characters)
Crab Clan Champion: Hida Kuroda (Male Sam 10)
Crane Clan Champion: Doji Kurohito (Male Sam 6/Iaijutsu 5)
Dragon Clan Champion: Togashi Hoshi (Male Unique Half-Dragon Sam 5/Swordmaster 10/Monk 5)
Lion Clan Champion: Matsu Nimuro (Male Sam 15)
Mantis Clan Champion: Yoritomo Kitao (Female Ftr 6/Rog 8)
Phoenix Clan Champion: Shiba Tsukune (Female Sam 17)
Scorpion Clan Champion: Bayushi Yojiro (Male Sam 5/Court5/EmMag 9)
Unicorn Clan Champion: Moto Gaheris (Male Sam 5/Moto Avenge 10)
Daigotsu (Male Evil Outsider Maho-tsukai 20) Leader of the Maho-tsukai
Tsuburu no Oni (Powerful Oni Lord) One of two Oni lords sworn to Daigotsu
Kyoso no Oni (Powerful Oni Lord) Exiled to Jigoku, Rokugani Hell, by Daigotsu.
Lead by Shahai (Female Shu 7/Maho-tsukai 11) Leader of the Blood Speakers

Clan Families and Shadowlands Groups
Title of Territory/School/Family
Crab Clan
Hida (Samurai/Hida Defender/Honor 2) Daimyo: Hida Kuroda (Male Sam 10)
Hiruma (Ranger/Shadow Scout/Honor 2) Daimyo: Hiruma Masagaro (Male Rng 5, Sam 2, Shadowlands Vet 5)
Kaiu (Samurai/Siegemaster/Honor 2) Daimyo: Kaiu Umasu (Male Sam 5, Siege 10)
Kuni (Shugenja/Witch Hunter/Honor 1) Daimyo: Kuni Tansho (Female Shu 18)
Toritaka (Fighter/Honor 2) Daimyo: Toritaka Tatsune (Male Ftr 4/Sam 2/Rng 1/Shadowlands Vet 7)

Crane Clan
Doji (Courtier/Honor 3) Daimyo Doji Kurohito (Male Sam 6/Iaijutsu 5)
Asahina (Shugenja/Honor 3) Daimyo: Kimita (Female Shu 12)
Daidoji (Fighter/Daidoji Bodyguard/Honor 2) Daimyo: Daidoji Rekai (Female Sam 10/Ftr 10)
Kakita (Samurai or Courtier/Iaijutsu Master/Honor 3) Daimyo: Kakita Kaiten (Male Sam 15)
Yasuki (Fighter/Honor 2) Daimyo Yasuki Hachi (Male Sam 5/Ftr 4)

Dragon Clan
Togashi (Inkyo/'Tattooed Monk-ise zumi'/Honor 2) Daimyo: Togashi Hoshi (Male Unique Half-Dragon Sam 5/Swordmaster 10/Monk 5)
Hitomi (Monk/'Tattooed Monk-kikage zumi'/Honor 1) Daimyo: Hitomi Kagetora (Male Sam 9/Monk 10)
Kitsuki (Samurai/Honor 3) Daimyo: Kitsuki Mizuochi (Male Sam 13)
Mirumoto (Samurai/Dragon Swordmaster/Honor 2) Daimyo: Miromoto Uso (Male Sam 9/Swordmaster 8)
Tamori (Shugenja/Honor 2) Daimyo: Tamori Shaitung (Female Shu 16)

Lion Clan
Akodo (Samurai/Akodo Champion/Honor 3) Daimyo: Akodo Ginawa (Male Sam 15/Ftr 3)
Ikoma (Courtier/Honor 3) Daimyo: Ikoma Sume (Male Court 7/Sam 9)
Kitsu (Shugenja/Honor 2) Daimyo: Kitsu Juri (Male Shu 16)
Matsu School (Berzerker/Matsu Rager or Lion's Pride/Honor 2) Daimyo: Matsu Ketsui (Female Sam 7/LionPride 8)

Mantis Clan
Yoritomo (Fighter/Storm Legion/Honor 2) Daimyo: Yoritomo Kitao (Female Ftr 6/Rog 8)
Moshi (Shugenja/Honor 3) Daimyo: Moshi Juiko (Female Shu 17)
Tsuruchi (Fighter/Wasp Bountyhunter/Honor 2) Daimyo: Tsuruchi Ichiro (Male Ftr 6/Wasp BH 5)

Phoenix Clan
Shiba (Samurai/Shiba Protector/Honor 3) Daimyo: Shiba Tsukune (Female Sam 17)
Agasha (Shugenja/Honor 3) Daimyo: Agasha Hamanari (Male Shu 10)
Asako (Inkyo/Henshin Mystic/Honor 3) Daimyo: Asako Toshi (Male Inkyo 12)
Isawa (Shugenja/Void Disciple/Honor 2) Daimyo: ruled by the Council of Elemental Masters. This council also rules the Phoenix.

Scorpion Clan
Bayushi (Rogue/Bayushi Deciever/Honor 1) Daimyo: Bayushi Yojiro (Male Sam 5/Court5/EmMag 9)
Shosoro (Ninja/Honor 1) Daimyo: Shosuro Yudoka (Male Ftr 6/Nin 12)
Soshi (Shugenja/Honor 1) Daimyo: Soshi Uidori (Female Shu 8/Nin 4)
Yogo (Shugenja/Honor 0) Daimyo: Yogo Koji (Male Shu 13)

Unicorn Clan
Moto (Berzerker/Moto Avenger/Honor 1) Daimyo: Moto Gaheris (Male Sam 5/Moto Avenge 10)
Iuchi (Shugenja/Honor 2) Daimyo: Iuchi Yue (Female Shu 14)
Shinjo (Ranger/Shinjo Explorer & Kishi Charger/Honor 2) Daimyo: Shinjo Shono (Male Rng 2/Sam 3/EXplorer 3)
Utaku (Samurai/Battle Maiden/Honor 3) Daimyo: Utaku Xieng Chi (Female Samurai 7/BattleMaiden 8)

Shadowlands Horde (Ruled by A variety of Bakemono, Oni and other tainted creatures based in the Shadowlands.)
Blood Speakers (A secret cult of Maho-tsukai working for evil and chaos through the Emerald Empire…)

Territories in the Far South West of Rokugan
Title of Territory/School/Family
Aiso ni Ryokosha (Village)
Bells of the Dead (Shrine)
Festering Pit of Fu Leng (Sinkhole)
Forgotten Tomb of Fu Leng (Maho Site)
Haikyo Sano Kappa (Ruins)
Heiwa na Kaze Heigen (Quiet Wind Plane)
Jukami (Village)
Kabe ue no ho ni sa Umi (Wall above the Ocean)
Kaiu Kabe (Carpenter Wall)
Kaiu Toge (Carpernter Pass)
Kawa Kurai Tsuki (River of the Dark Moon)
Kawa Sano Saigo No Kamae (River of the Last Stand)
Kenkai Hanto (Lookout Peninsula)
Kishi no Mizu-umi (Forbidden Lake)
Koten (Village)
Kuroi Yubi Kawa (Black Finger River)
Kuni Areno (Kuni Wastes)
Kyuden Hida (Palace)
Nishiyama (Village)
Saigo no Kamae Heigen (Last Stand Plain)
Shinden Asahina (Castle)
Shio Senyo no Riku (Tidal Landbridge)
Shiro Hiruma (Castle)
Shiro Kuni (Castle)
Sunda Mizu (City)
Watchtower of the East (Tower)
Yasuki Yashiki (Castle)
Yugure Yama (Twilight Mountains)

Territories in the South West of Rokugan
Title of Territory/School/Family
Aka Mizu-umi (Red Lake)
Beiden (Town)
Dangai (Shrine)
Ginasutra (Village)
Hotei Seido (Shrine)
Iyotishi (Town)
Kagoki (Village)
Kaia Osho (Village)
Kaiu Shiro (Castle)
Kakita Bogu (Village)
Kamisori sano Yoake Shiro (Castle)
Kitsune Mori (Village)
Koeru (Village)
Kuda (Village)
Kyuden Ashinagabachi (Palace)
Kyuden Bayushi (Palace)
Kyuden Miya (Palace)
Maemikake (Town)
Meidochi (Village)
Midaki (Village)
Mizu-umi no o (Lake of Sorrows)
Mizu-umi no Sakura Yuki (Lake of Cherry Blossom Snow)
Nirukti (Ruins)
Ronin Chiiki (Ronin Plains)
Shiden Osano-Wo (Shrine)
Shimomura (Village)
Shinomen Mori (Hidden Forest)
Shiro Heichi (Ruins)
Shiro Kaotsuki no Higashi (Castle)
Siksa (Town)
Taki sano Okami Jikan (Hour of the Wolf Falls)
Tomb of Iuchiban (Maho Site)
Vyakarana (Town)
Watchtower of the West (Tower)
Zakyo (City)

Territories in the Far South East of Rokugan
Title of Territory/School/Family
Bunyo sana Asahina (Fields of the Morning Sun)
Daidoji Training Grounds (Castle)
Higashiyama (Village)
Inazuma (City)
Kaimentsu-uo Seido (Shrine)
Koutetsukan (City)
Maigosera Seido (Lighthouse)
Mura Sabishi (City)
Okami (City)
Oni Mura (Village)
Tokigogachu (Village)
Umoeru (Village)
Yama ue na ho ni Umi (Village)
Yasuki Hanko (Village)

Territories in the South East of Rokugan
Title of Territory/School/Family
Aketsu (Town)
Daidoji Yukan-se (Tower)
Hanto no Yoake (Peninsula of Dawn)
Heigen no Doji (Doji Family Plains)
Higashi Chushin (Village)
Kawa na Zatu Shudoshi (River of the Blind Monk)
Kyuden Doji (Palace)
Kyuden Gotei (Palace)
Maigo no Musume Wan (Lost Daughter Bay)
Minawa Chushin (village)
Mizen (Town)
Musume (Village)
Nichibotsu Fushere (Tower)
Nishi Chushin (Village)
Otosan Uchi (Capital)
Samui Kaze (City)
Shima No Kinu (Island of Silk)
Shima No Koshinryo (Island of Spice)
Umi Yakamo (Sea of the Sun God)
Wan no Asaguroi Mizu (Bay of Dark Water)
Wan Sana Kin Taiyo (Bay of the Golden Sun)
Yuu Na Heigen (City)

Territories in the West of Rokugan
Title of Territory/School/Family
Bishamon Seido (Shrine)
Daikoku Seido (Shrine)
Duzaki (Town)
Hae Moete (Firefly River)
Heigen Yuki (Snow Plain)
Hisatu-Kesu (Village)
Kakusu Keikei Torid-e (Castle)
Kawa Mitsu Kishi (Three Sides River)
Kawa Sano Fui no Dansei wo Sasu (River of the Unexpected Hero)
Kenson Gakka (Castle)
Kita Toge (Northern Pass)
Kudo (Village)
Kyodai Na Ana (The Great Crater)
Kyuden Ikoma (Palace)
Meiyo Gisei (City)
Minami Toke (Southern Pass)
Mizu (Town)
Mizu-Umi Kiku Hanabira (Chrysanthemum Petal Lake)
Naga Doro Heigen (Naga Road Plain)
Nihai Tower (Tower)
Pokau (Town)
Ryoko Owari (City)
Seikitsu San Tama no Oi (Spine of the World Mountains)
Shinomen Tower (Tower)
Shiranai (City)
Shiro Ide (Castle)
Shiro Iuchi (Castle)
Shiroi Kishi (Village)
Shiroi Kishi Heigen (White Shore Plain)
Shiroi Kishi Mizu-umi (White Shore Lake)
Shiro Shosuro (Castle)
Shiro Soshi (Castle)
Shiro Usagi (Castle)
Toge Puramu Hana (Plum Blossom Pass)
Turo Kojiri (Village)
Utaku Seido (Shrine)
Watchtower (Tower)
Yama sano Kaminari (Mountain of the Seven Thunders)
Yogo Shiro (Castle)

 

[Tokiwong]

good work... thanx Creamsteak

 

[Creamsteak]

Note 1:
Ok, the above is current. I have three more blocks of map left to cover. Any mistakes still there? Black Omega? Tokiwong?

Note 2:
If we are allowed to make "general" claims like PC and clan allignment: I claim Dragon Clan and the Dragon Clan Daimyo.


Note 3: If anyone wants to know PL for those territories (I have not posted it yet to differ people from number crunching just yet) you can assume the following:

Town-Capital: Size Class x2 = PL Size Class x1 = IR

Village is size 1
Town is size 2
City is size 3
Capital is size 4

Tower-Castle: Size Class x 4 = PL Size Class x2 = IR

Tower is size 1
Palace is size 2
Castle is size 3

Ruins are 1/2 Castle

Families have PL of 20 + Daimyo's Level -10

That is my current measurements: if anyone has any recommendations just tell me.

Oh- Land Masses have PL of 1 x Size Class and IR of 1 x Size Class. Size class for land masses is determined by font size on the map. So big areas like mountain ranges have Size classes much higher than that of a small valley. Also, Water has 1/2 the size class land would have.

 

[Tokiwong]

Looks good sp far and if you want to be the Dragon then coolies... I for one think that the players can change their daimyo's if they like to represent whatever... stay true to the setting but also allow them some room to breathe.... I will crunch through the stuff you posted and see if anything seems askew...

 

[Black Omega]

Looks good sp far and if you want to be the Dragon then coolies... I for one think that the players can change their daimyo's if they like to represent whatever... stay true to the setting but also allow them some room to breathe.... I will crunch through the stuff you posted and see if anything seems askew...

Well, for the most part Daimyo writeups go as far as gender and levels and that's about it. So it's pretty flexible even to start.

Anyway, if you are running it, Toki, do what you want. If you need anything else posted, let me know.

 

[The Forsaken One]

Can someone that knows the setteing here give me a summary of how this setting works?
Hostory ect?

I'll be looking myself but keyinfo from DM and stufff is nice.

 

[Lichtenhart]

May I claim the Crane Clan?

And I'll second the Forsaken One's request.

 

[Black Omega]

Hmm..can try a fast and dirty overview. There is a ton of depth that will get left out, however.

The Emerald Empire, also called the Empire of Rokugan, is the campaign setting. Geographicaly it's not unlike China, mostly land based with a great wall to the south protecting from the Shadowlands. It's large enough geography varies quite a bit., freezing in the north to warm and temperate to the south. The society is uniformly lawful and orderly and strongly based on Japanese culture. Samurai rule the Empire, following the dictates of Bushido. It should be noted Samurai is a character class but it is also the noble social class. Courtiers, shugenja and Samurai all belong to it.

Historically, the Empire was formed after the Kami fell from Heaven, the result of a mythic level struggle between them and their father, Lord Moon. Celestrial beings born of the Sun and Moon, they quickly set up an empire and it's clans. And soon enough found themselves in a war against their evil brother, Fu Leng. His fall had opened a pit into Hell that was corrupting the land and everyone in the area. He was defeated when Shinsei (the Rokugani Buddha) selected a hero from each of the seven great clans. Called the Thunders, they and Shinsei found a way to mostly seal away the power of Fu Leng, leading to his defeat.

Fast forward a thousand plus years. The Empire decends into an unprecedented period of chaos and warfare called the Clan Wars. Shadowland armies spread the plague and death, clan fights clan, everything goes to hell as Fu Leng possesses Hantei the 39th. Then Fu Leng is defeated on the second Day of Thunder by souls of the original Thunders, reborn. With the death of the last of the Hantei the dynasty that had ruled the empire for over a thousand years comes to an end and a new one starts with Toturi the 1st, the former Akodo who led the war to defeat Fu Leng.

Not that things are peaceful after that. The war against the Lying Darkness that sought to destroy the past and sink all Rokugan into nothingness was fought and won, the Lying Darkness utterly destroyed. But not before a number of spirits were freed from the realms of the afterlife and returned to the Empire. Among them the savage Hantei the 16th, the infamous Steel Crysanthemum. His schemes led to the Spirit Wars as he tried to return the throne to a Hantei. His defeat left the empire at relative peace, until the present day.

The rest depends on where Tokiwong plans to start to game at. With the book, or with current storyline. Hope this helps a little.

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

Hmm, I would have joined Rokugan IR, but it seems that I will be mostly offline during the summer. Anabstecorian, do you intend to make your IR after the summer? Oh, and Melkor won`t reveal himself as God of Oblivion to Earthlings, rather as power and freedom( to do what you want, nevermind others). He might even disguise himself as Celestial, and pretend to be a Christian Archangel, and create a fundamentalist Christian Church under himself, of course its members will be slowly brainwashed to be completely obedient to him!

 

[Anabstercorian]

Man, it wouldn't be an IR without a truly evil mofo like you around, Melkor. I'll probably hold it after the summer, immediately after the Rokugan IR.