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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8324560" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>It wouldn't have been possible for non-spellcasters to both avoid combat and advance; Bushido split experience into Shugo (which applied to Shugenja (mages) and Gakusho (priests)) and Budo (which applied to everyone else). Budo was acquired almost exclusively through kills (which went to whoever struck the killing blow, to the point I still hear some people who played in those campaigns joke about someone "stealing the budo" when they'd been ineffective in a combat until they managed to get in the kill.</p><p></p><p>My guess would be that they only rarely ran into samurai with the necessary skills to pull off those sort of effects, and probably later in the day; there were a wide variety of opponents who were far from that dangerous (including most of the two varieties of mooks).</p><p></p><p>In other words, it was either overuse, or (if using the random encounter generation tables) bad luck of the die throwing up one of the most deadly opponents. Not a problem in those days that could be limited to Bushido.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8324560, member: 7026617"] It wouldn't have been possible for non-spellcasters to both avoid combat and advance; Bushido split experience into Shugo (which applied to Shugenja (mages) and Gakusho (priests)) and Budo (which applied to everyone else). Budo was acquired almost exclusively through kills (which went to whoever struck the killing blow, to the point I still hear some people who played in those campaigns joke about someone "stealing the budo" when they'd been ineffective in a combat until they managed to get in the kill. My guess would be that they only rarely ran into samurai with the necessary skills to pull off those sort of effects, and probably later in the day; there were a wide variety of opponents who were far from that dangerous (including most of the two varieties of mooks). In other words, it was either overuse, or (if using the random encounter generation tables) bad luck of the die throwing up one of the most deadly opponents. Not a problem in those days that could be limited to Bushido. [/QUOTE]
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