Play out the action seen in wuxia movies and TV shows with the exciting press-your-luck game mechanic found in previous d00Lite games!
In Art of Wuxia, players take on the role of heroes of Longzhi (a new mystic fantasy setting inspired by ancient China). Characters utilize their qi while raising fists, spells, and blades against tyrants, demons, and spirits who would spread evil on the land.
Embrace the three tenets of the virtuous hero. Run on water, climb on air. Wander the land and become the balance to the darkness and dread which ever seeks to invade the prosperity of the land and its people.
The core rulebook is 180 pages of skills, alchemy, qi abilities, spells, kung fu styles and techniques, weapons and gear... but it's more than that. It contains all players and GMs need to create and develop characters through years of high flying wuxia adventure, traveling the land, righting wrongs, fighting villains and sometimes creatures only spoken of in stories. It even includes a broad brushstroke setting. Top it off with rules for magic item creation, poison, disease, adventure and villain construction, weapons of ingenious design and secret kung fu techniques that require adventures of their own to acquire!
Not only a stand-alone game, this book also contains skills, races, creatures, and spells which would feel right at home added to other d00lite systems, making this an excellent resource for GMs looking to add some wuxia to their games.
This product comes with an assortment of helpful sheets and additional items:
Longzhi is a light fantasy campaign setting detailed in the Art of Wuxia. The core rulebook comes with a black and white map within, stretched across two facing pages, and a handful of pages describing the history, lands, territories, organizations, belief systems, customs, languages, economy, and more. If you want to play in this setting and require a larger map than comes in the book, pick up this 12"x18" poster map. Or, grab the graphic image and print at home, in case you want to mark it up for your own adventures!
Longzhi is divided mostly into three main political regions:
The Legends of Willow Bridge, Chapter 1. What do you get when you combine bandits, a teahouse, evil cultists, a blind kung fu master and some newly rolled up wuxia heroes? An introductory adventure for Art of Wuxia, of course!
This adventure is designed to guide players and GMs new to the genre or even new to role-playing games to the high flying action of Art of Wuxia. The adventure has many tips for the GM, useful for running the adventure, and tips for playing up various wuxia tropes.
We’ve also included backgrounds for the sample characters found in the Art of Wuxia rulebook. These backgrounds serve to create connections between the characters and give them some common ground. Also included is a bonus character to use if you wish. The background of the bonus character also connects to the other sample characters.
As indicated by the title this adventure serves as the launching point, not only for your own Art of Wuxia campaigns, but also for a series of adventures that will expand upon the village of Willow Bridge and the lands around.