[Rite Publishing] Way of the Samurai (Kaidan)

[Qwillion]

Now the enemy is arrayed against us. Now the day is at hand when we shall risk everything for our lord and master! For this, we have prepared all the days of our miserable lives. Now you shall learn what it means to be samurai! Fate is in the hands of the gods, our armor is on our breast, success is in our legs! Let us go forward without fear and may our swords find a bloody sheath before we die.- Taira Motomori to his troops at the Battle of the Six Bridges.

Rite Publishing Presents

A faction guide for Kaidan and supplement for the samurai style characters designed for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game by Jonathan McAnulty (Curse of the Golden Spear Trilogy, Kobold Quarterly)

Find out more, check out the full-sized preview, or get your copy HERE

 

[Fooly_Cooly]

Interesting. Honestly I think the samurai need to be redone altogether. As I proper separate class. Not a reskinned cavalier.

 

[gamerprinter]

Interesting. Honestly I think the samurai need to be redone altogether. As I proper separate class. Not a reskinned cavalier.

Trying to work within Paizo's established UC class samurai, there are 4 archetypes for the samurai class, but more than that in Kaidan (which closely resembles feudal Japan) social caste is everything and the samurai caste contains more than just warriors. In this supplement are also gunslinger, paladin, ranger and wizard archetypes also of the samurai caste.

Honestly, when I was working on differing concepts fo the samurai as a class, one of the designs wasn't too far off of Paizo's design, so we decided to stick with Paizo's version and expand that idea and create some archetypes for it. The archetypes catch the differences that make the diversity of samurai - we have a diplomat, 2-swords warrior specialist, a fighter against unnatural horror and an archer specialist.

Here's the first review, same day as it's release 5/5 stars at DrivethruRPG. It explains the book well.

 

[gamerprinter]

Another 5/5 star review, this one from RPG.org

Everyone seems to agree that Way of the Samurai is more than just a supplement for Kaidan, rather for the entire concept of Samurai as it applies to any oriental setting using PFRPG ruleset.

 

[gamerprinter]

Another 5/5 star rated review - this one by Endzeitgeist.

Michael