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Art of Wuxia Blog Articles
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I cross post these on DWD Studios G+
To keep folks updated here, the following articles about Art of Wuxia are on Explodingdice.com
Why Art of Wuxia!?
Art of Wuxia Lets you do cool things!
Art of Wuxia Design Guidelines, Part 1 Kung Fu
Art of Wuxia Design Guidelines, Part II Adversaries
Art of Wuxia Design Guidelines, Part III Tropes
Art of Wuxia Design Guidelines, Part IV Mysticism
Under the Hood, Skills in Art of Wuxia
Under the Hood: Kung Fu in Art of Wuxia
Con of the North 2017 After Action Report
Pictures from my Gaming Table
The Wuxia Way Saved My Game
Menomoncon 2017 After Action Report
Art of Wuxia at Clearwater Con III 2017
Wuxia and Passion
19 Questions about Art of Wuxia
Wuxia Paper Minis!
Art of Wuxia: Where We Are
Still Alive
Art of Wuxia Map
Art of Wuxia at Con of the North 2020
A closer look at Alchemy in Art of Wuxia
Why Art of Wuxia? Full Circle
What do I do in a wuxia game?
Let's Make a Character
Art of Wuxia Progress Report!
Art of Wuxia at Con of the North 2020 After Action report
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Under the Hood, Skills in Art of Wuxia
Awesome write-up!
Thank you! More coming! If anyone has any questions about Art of Wuxia I'll be happy to answer them.
Under the Hood: Kung Fu in Art of Wuxia
Con of the North 2017 After Action Report
Sounds like everyone had fun? btw - I love this quote from your blog post: "It also shows that the D00Lite system is anything but simplistic. Easy to learn, yes, but full of extended play options."
First time I've had a table of players clap at the end of a game session! Groups keep thanking me for running this game. They keep asking to sign up for play testing, this is how I keep recruiting playtest groups.
This is the most fun game I've run. I think I'm going to hit up one of my regulars to run it this summer for me.
Some pictures of my Art of Wuxia game last weekend.
http://explodingdice.com/wordpress/2017/02/27/wuxia-tabletop-pics/
HOLY CRAP that looks like fun!
Indeed, huge fun! I have some poster tack we use on the mini's bases when fights take to the rooftops!
Sounds like everyone had fun? btw - I love this quote from your blog post: "It also shows that the D00Lite system is anything but simplistic. Easy to learn, yes, but full of extended play options."
I absolutely believe this. I ran my first game a week after BBF came out. I have run over 100 four-hour games using the d00Lite system. I can teach the basics in 2 minutes, and offer what seems like endless play options. This is a very good game!
The Wuxia Way Saved My Game
Menomoncon 2017 After Action Report
Mystic: yes I think you see why I did it. The fandom of wuxia have been arguing for years about training exercises of waikong or neikong or qigong, chi flow, should there be magic, is it magic and not just chi or elemental powers. Is it sorcery, daoist alchemy, black magic, psi powers etc.
I'm leaving that up to individual play groups to decide the particulars of how things work "behind the scenes" so that their world views will be supported by their own game. Just like BareBones Fantasy doesn't tell you how magic works etc.
Mystic became a nice generic term for those strong in chi and able to sense imbalance in the world. And yet you can have orders and sects and specialists with unique names in your world to better reflect your gaming style.
If you can think of a better name for it I'm open. But it has to be generic and easily understood.
Timeframe: maybe public play testing early next year. Best I can offer at this point.
I'll be posting more on my blog about all sorts of topics. A fight example will happen eventually once a few tiny elements are finalized.
I should also mention that Art of Wuxia stays away from real world martial arts and religions. It has it's own. Yes you can see the inspirations and you can recreate ones you know if you like but Art of Wuxia is designed to let you tell a variety of wuxia stories with all the tropes in a mythical land that is loosely based on mythical china.
And speaking of names, the BareBone Wuxia! working title has been replaced. This game is now called Art of Wuxia.
Here is a logo concept (by no means official):
Logo Concept
Thanks again for the comments Marko. If you get a group together and want to playtest drop me a note. jim@explodingdice.com
Got it, invite sent!
More good times at Clearwater Con with Art of Wuxia!
Art of Wuxia at Clearwater Con III 2017
I've posted an article about how Art of Wuxia embraces passion.
Wuxia and Passion
19 Questions about Art of Wuxia
Still Alive
Added an update on Art of Wuxia!
Art of Wuxia Map
I've added a short article and some samples of the campaign map for Art of Wuxia.
Art of Wuxia at Con of the North 2020
http://explodingdice.com/wordpress/2019/07/19/art-of-wuxia-at-con-of-the...
A closer look at Alchemy in ARt of Wuxia
http://explodingdice.com/wordpress/2019/08/01/alchemy/
Why Art of Wuxia? Full Circle
http://explodingdice.com/wordpress/2019/09/04/why-art-of-wuxia-full-circle/
Exciting!
What do I do in a wuxia game?
http://explodingdice.com/wordpress/2019/09/11/what-do-i-do-in-a-wuxia-game/
Let's Make a Character
Put it on the new character sheet!
A short update on progress and a reminder of Art of Wuxia at Con of the North in just over two weeks!
Art of Wuxia Progress Report!
Art of Wuxia at Con of the North 2020 After Action report