Sengoku (role-playing game)

"Sengoku: Chanbara Roleplaying in Feudal Japan" is a Samurai role-playing game, created by Anthony J. Bryant and Mark Arsenault and published by Gold Rush Games. The setting for the game is 16th century Japan. The tone can be realistic, heroic as in Akira Kurosawa films, or superheroic as in many manga comicbooks.

"Sengoku" comes as a single book. It uses the "Fuzion" rules system, which is highly-rated for flexibility but can be difficult to learn.

The game is striking for the great volume of well-researched background material that it includes, perhaps at the expense of clarity of the rules. There are detailed descriptions of society, weapons, language, locations, etc., a comprehensive filmography, and quotations scattered throughout the book to add "flavor".

The creators' original intention was to publish a new version of the "Bushido role-playing game" but for legal reasons this proved impossible, necessitating the creation of a completely new game.Fact|date=August 2007

A revised edition of "Sengoku" was published in 2002.

See also

* "Bushido (role-playing game)": produced in 1981 by Fantasy Games Unlimited.
* "Oriental Adventures": a supplement for the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, produced in 1985 by Gary Gygax's TSR, Inc. and later rereleased in 2001 by Wizards of the Coast.
* "Legend of the Five Rings": a role-playing game and accompanying collectible card game, produced in 1995 by Alderac Entertainment Group.

External links

* [http://www.sengoku.com/ The official website for the "Sengoku" game]