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I think Corsair's "War" idea would go well with a Japanese Shogun or Chinese Warring States/Three Kingdoms-type setting.  The Hero could help the rightful candidate become Emperor.

Or maybe he could (Unknowingly, of course) help one of the wrongful candidates.

You've got a lot of potential for individual quests for the different classes too:  the Fighter would have to prove himself in martial arts duels, the Thief could fall in with a ninja clan, the Paladin could learn about bushido, the Wizard could be inducted into Taoist mysteries (that would make for a cool spell list).

Yeah, but if you mess up, you'd have to perform Seppuku. That would suck. Make a cool death message, though  :D .

Hmm...this series can't have Japanese brothels, can it? Darn!

Kiku-san from Shogun rocked!  :D  

I'm not sure that the geisha-type concubine can really be associated with "brothels".  But that brings to fore the issue of the Hero's possible future romantic interests, if the latter QFGs are any basis to go by.  A "Kiku-san"-ish character would be good for the Fighter or maybe Paladin....as for the Wizard, well, supernatural feminine spirits are a powerful motif in Asian mythologies, so we could have the Asian answer to Erana there.  

I can envision the Thief doing many espionage/assassination sidequests in enemy warlords' palaces (where he conviently pockets any valuables he finds, of course) as a unique way for his class to advance the plot.

In H7, the Thief should get a ninja outfit.

And maybe the fighter will take up sumo wretsling. LOL think about it! =P :D

haha.

now for the actual plot.... anyone have any ideas?

Well, excuse me for going Off-topic, but from what I remember, Kiku-san was an honest-to-god prostitute. Payed for sex and everything.

In other news, Silverbolt now has 100 posts. Yay?

You're right.  I got Kiku confused with Mariko, who obviously wasn't a geisha or prostitute.  A Mariko-type character would be necessary in an Asian setting to help out the Hero and be his guide, and be a good romantic interest for the Fighter or Paladin.  What kind of female character would go well with the Thief, sort of like that moneychanger from Shapeir?

The Wizard plot should have either a quest for enlightenment where he goes off in search of a hermit master to teach him new spells and stuff, and/or a quest to find out the recipe to brew a powerful magical potion, since the Taoist alchemists were always looking for that magical alchemical brew that made one immortal.


 

For the thief I suggest a Ninja female.

The magic-user could go looking for some legendary wizard, and, you know, you're expecting someone like Erasmus, and you find the tower or whatever, and it's a hot woman.

Yeh, Ninja female sounds like a plan.

That sounds like the plot of a porn film. Corsair...you little devil  ^_^

J/k

I think it's a good idea, actually. And she can be an Asian hot babe. Ok, now *I'm* doing it.  :blink:  

How would you know the plot of porno films anyway?

Some questions shouldn't be asked, Corsair. :rolleyes:  

Yeah, good point.

You should know that it took all of my Jedi training not to answer that question.

PS, I don't think the Hero should be given a Samurai armour. Those things look stupid.

Samurai is the epitome of cool! How DARE you insult the mighty Samurai!

Samurai are, indeed, cool. But did you see their armour? How the *place under the ground where satan dwelles but has been censored* do they walk in those things?

Jigen, I'd rather not break a sweat. Could you do it?  

have you guys seen the movie Last Samurai? because i havent, i well think that would be a great title for hero 7.


*shakes head*

a white man as the last samurai heh.....  

To Silverbolt: Watch 'The last Samurai' again, then you tell us how they moved in those armours.

And yeah, I'm with Corsair (Ow! it actually hurt to type that), some of the masks that were made for the helmets are freakin' cool.

I don't really want to see that movie which I found to be a near rip-off of Shogun.

And I was not expressing disbelief, Jigen, only curiosity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-yoroi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-yoroi)
There you go.

The Samurai usually wore hover-boots or stilts. But most of the Samurai turned to becoming Ninja, and began to flip out and kill people, or eat frisbees.

Kindly never ever link to Wikipedia ever again, plz?  :unsure:  

What's wrong with wikipedia? I mean, besides the fact that it can't be trusted.

Yes.

Ah I see, well in that case. Most of the armour is made for the upper body, generally in most samurai armour styles you'll see them wearing shin guards (there are thousands of places on the net where you can look up the japanese names and I'm at work and do not have access to my L5R sourcebooks) and a kind of armour skirt that comes down over their knees. Some heavier armours will incorporate armour for the thighs as well, but these are generally only encountered in full-on cavalry armour for open-field warfare. For general wear samurai rarely wore more armour than a chest plate and sleeves.

Of course it all depends on what period you're looking at. Once the entire country was unified armours became less important, martial arts became more internally focused and Samurai began to behave more like statesmen. It is in this era where men like Miyamoto Musashi rose to prominence.

Aha. Makes sense. Actually, better than European Medieval armour. Fall off your horse in battle in one of those and you're OWNED.

Not to mention the problem with running in a skirt.

The Scots never seemed to mind. One thing my brother always found curious was that throughout history many of the meanest, ugliest, hardest, MOFO-ing warriors all tended to wear skirts or something that looked distinctly skirt-like.

You don't wear kilts into battle.

Especially if you're Geasatti

Geasatti? Isn't that like cheap russian beer?

what about the romans - they seemed to fight pretty well in their metal skirts.