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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Black Omega" data-source="post: 609988" data-attributes="member: 79">Should be a interesting change of pace then.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Some good suggestions so far.  If you want to get a good idea of samurai honor and obligation, Shogun is excellent.  It has all the elements and it's told from the vantage point of a foreigner.No looting bodies is pretty easy to handle.  Remove the incentive.  Use the nerumanai rules from Magic of Rokugan.  The rules are very simple.  Most magic items in Rokugan are of the same type, items that spontaneously awaken and work only for their owner, because it has a link with it's owner.  Beyond that, recall Rokugan and other empires can be very lawful.  Killing a samurai doesn't mean his property becomes yours.  Looting bodies simply means people will look down on you and relatives or clans will take offense in a way they would not if you only killed the samurai.  After all, once you loot the body you are nothing more than a bandit.The magic level is fairly typical for most DnD campaigns, unless you prefer to run it as a low magic game.Adventurers curiousity depends on the game and who the PC's are.  Magistrates or samurai sent out on patrol are free to investigate unusual things happening.  In my game, the PC's lord tends to give missions in general terms.  Go to this area, recover this item, return with it.  The details of how to do it and how to overcome the complications are left up to the PC's. Typically keep in mind that good and evil is less important than law and chaos, or honor and dishonor.  The lawful, honorable people are the good guys.  This is not an absolute, but if this is a mini-campaign for a change of pace, you may as well do something very different.</blockquote>

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