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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6762177" data-attributes="member: 6777454">You should just do your own thing. Don't worry about updating a setting you aren't the least bit familiar with and have no attachment to. It wasn't very well made and whatever you come up with is certain to be just as flawed, but flawed in a way that is your making rather than the mistakes of someone 30 years ago that you are repeating merely because it was part of history.Samurai are a social class which does not make for a proper class. It is just way too large of a sector of society. Samurai are probably mostly Fighters, but a Paladin or Bard would fit right into that role. My experience suggests you have a crazy narrow idea of what samurai are as most people in RPG circles who bring them up seem to inevitably have. Go play Sengoku Musou (Samurai Warriors) and Sengoku Basara to get a better idea of the breadth of concept "samurai" can be and why it would fit so poorly into a narrowly defined class.You don't need any special rules at all. Just because something has a different name or a weapon is used slightly differently doesn't mean it doesn't have an equivalent already.Katana -> Long swordWakazashi - Short swordYumi Bow -> Short bow (yeah, its not even a long bow, it is a short bow to be used from horseback)Naginata -> HalberdKanabo -> Great Cluba stirrup to improve accuracy with bows while mountedan early firearm -> Only way to make these both balanced and usable is to simply use the various crossbow stats exactly as they are.Chuko Nu -> Heavy CrossbowYour reptilian race is probably something close to Lizardfolk. There was a company that published stats for Lizardfolk and Gnolls in a book.There is also probably nothing particular special you need to do with a reptilian mount. If it is generally equivalent to a riding horse found in the PHB. Instead of hoofs they have a bite with the same attack bonus and damage and maybe they are a bit slower with slightly better AC.Just in general, it seems like you are looking for thing to come up with new rules for instead of simply using the rules that already exist in an intelligent and creative manner to emulate this new world. Just because the description and name of something is slightly different, if it is meant to be a direct equitable equivalent of something else then the numbers on the page don't really need to change.</blockquote>

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