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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6090586" data-attributes="member: 42582">Thanks.One of my players is the local HP printing technical customer service chief. So he gets a lot of software for testing its printing functionality. At a certain point he decided that scrawled notes on the back of character sheets weren't enough, so he consolidated everyone's notes, started investigating some of the drawing software he'd been sent, and turned the notes into a chart. Black squares = dead (generally killed by the PCs).The label "So Called Heavenly Realm" captures the mood of the campaign fairly well: the PCs were outsiders to heaven (some samurai, a Buddhist warrior monk, an esoteric Buddhist monk, a tree spirit and a banished fox spirit) who were trying to save humanity, and the dead god, from the fates that "heaven" and the Lords of Karma would otherwise dish up to them.You've read it closely then!I'm not surprised some redundancies are in there - like I said, it was compiled from notes, which themsevels don't always have consistent or reliable spelling (especially when I'm reading out Japanese or Chinese names, and speak neither language). The "Giants of the Inner Elements" didn't play much of a role, but the Storm Lords and Sea Lords did. Ching Lung, the daughter of the Storm Lord and Sea Lord parents, started out in disguise as a human (like all good dragons do!) and was courted from 6th level or so until 26th level or so by one of the samurai. It was difficult, because her parents didn't approve of her liaison with a mortal. When the campaign finished, with a climactic victory by the PCs, we narrated their later lives rather than play on - and in a moment of sentimentality I decided that Tao Hiroshi, having shown his mettle by saving the world from an awful karmic fate, was permitted to marry Ching Lung. (There was another marriage in the end-narration too: another of the samura, Tao Mori, married the sorcereress whom they'd saved from Gerrzog and General Unitoro, and their descendants became the key to holding the karmic forces at bay, as long as their morality and integrity endured.)</blockquote>

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