Character Creation

Good to see we're using the relationships tables to establish possible connections between PCs. I recommend we all roll, and let the dice speak.

Remember that apart from the more obvious results, eg you are friends, or you are enemies, or total strangers, it may be important that you have heard of (but never met) the other person, thanks to their honour and reputation. Or heard possibly inaccurate slander or gossip about them.

Retcon your starter post if necessary, or just modify them to next time you post. If two of you have rolled conflicting results, just pick the one that makes more sense.

Ogion, you're right about there being no armour on the shopping list. This is pretty much consistent with the Borg style of OSR games. Here, only two of the ten classes start with armour, think of it as a feature of their class rather than equipment to purchase. Same with weapons, there generally aren't shops to buy them from.

Same answer from me to Grendar's earlier question, I haven't offered a chance to go 'shopping' yet; this game won't take the direction of a D&D adventuring party needing to buy a bunch of equipment at the start in order to dungeoncrawl.

Your characters are certainly fragile! That said, I did note one or two of had bad HP rolls. So here's my next character creation adjustment:

Starting HP
If you rolled lower than average on your hp die, please use the average instead, rounded up. Then remember to add the modifier if any. I think this puts Tomoe at 6, and Ikari at 7.

I've taken the published setting of Ronin and blended it with some alt history. You're right it isn't set in the Warring States or Sengoku era, which is probably the most familiar one, with warring factions and swashbuckling samurai.

Instead Ronin says it's set in a fictitious Edo era, and I've taken the liberty to put it right at the end of the Edo era, when the shogunate fell, and the Meiji Restoration took place, ie, the re-ascension of the emperor.

Alt-universe kicks in here: Except that because of the forever Eclipse, this ascension was viewed negatively. The surviving daimyos are rallying again because they see this as a sign that the emperor should not take the throne. And the unholy darkness that has befallen the land also binds the Imperial court under its corrupting shadow.

Of course we may never get to the politics of it all in this game where I make you take sides (or maybe we will if we play that long), but I'm happy to keep describing the backdrop and the worldbuilding as we play along in order to give everyone a more authentic feel.

Jomsviking,

Not sure why your stat rolls got all mixed up, I hope you don't mind that I've taken the liberty to correct them directly on your sheet, using the second set of rolls you made which were pretty strong.

Seeing as you're set on the leper idea, let's easily swap the background 'hunted by a terrifying monster etc', to 'have a powerful addiction (in this case illness) that is slowly destroying you'.

You don't get to roll armour or equipment, that for custom characters, because your class already comes with a weapon.

That's some major edits there, but I've accepted your character. Will start you off with a thread.

It works, for the record I didn't have any problem playing the tragically bad stats. Going into it knowing he has no reason to stay alive is a great story for a yamabushi. His path to enlightenment could be self destruction, which I will have him play this way regardless.

What use does a man dying of leprosy have for money? Or material comforts? Or even the respect of his peers. All he needs is to right himself with the gods and die in a manner he deems worthy. This will still be his intent.

I usually play a character who dies heroically, that is part of what makes the game enjoyable. This also gives you a person to kill to keep the pressure on. As the "cleric" it is my responsibility to die first and shame the stronger and more capable people for not choosing death as readily as I do. In such a way I can perform my not so subtle manipulations and inspire my companions to virtue.

I really like the rules for dying and reincarnating. Especially as they would remove all weakness. It would be so compelling to have White Teeth return somehow, cured of leprosy, stronger, faster, a stark contrast to the shuffling corpse he began as. Almost as if Amaterasu purified him through death. But this is contingent upon honor.