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J APAN
S ECOND E DITION
Beauty. Terror. Adventure.
Written by LEE GOLD
and J. HUNTER JOHNSON
Edited by MIKE HURST and SCOTT HARING
Cover by GUY BURCHAK
Illustrated by GUY BURCHAK, THEO BLACK,
and DAN SMITH
GURPS System Design
STEVE JACKSON
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ROSS JEPSON
Special thanks to Knut S. Vikor, for supplying us with his Jaghbub font.
Additional material by Volker Bach, C.J. Carella, Thomas M. Kane,
Steffan O’Sullivan, Sean Punch, S. John Ross, T. Carter Ross,
Brian C. Smithson, Timothy Stellmach, and Daniel U. Thibault
Playtesters (First Edition): Tim Baily, Earl Cooley, Alvin Cox,
Mike DeWolfe, Robert Gilson, Dan Glick, Terry Glick, Ron Kesler,
Eric Leibold, Denny Setnor, Brett Slocum, Rick Swan, and Gregory Weidman
Playtesters (Second Edition): Peter V. Dell’Orto, David Edelstein,
Greg Hartley, Leonardo M. Holschuh, Bob Huss, Scott A. Hutchens,
Scott Nickell, Gen-ichi Nishio, T. Carter Ross, Brian C. Smithson,
David Starner, Tim Stellmach, David P. Summers, and Brook West
Special thanks to Hitoshi Yasuda of Group SNE, who translated
the GURPS Basic Set into Japanese for Kadokawa Shoten,
for his valuable comments on this book.
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contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
About GURPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Page References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Holy Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Mikoshi Procession . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Buddhism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Baku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Becoming a Buss ½ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Buddhist Sects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Tennin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Hours of the Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Imperial Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Farmers’ Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Weather Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Controls on Daimy½ . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Samurai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Banzuin no Ch ½ bei . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Mito Komon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
R½nin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
The Otokodate and Gamblers . . . . 42
The 47 R ½ nin of Lord Asano . . . . . 42
The Farmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
· oka the Magistrate . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Western Influences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
The Merchants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Controls on Commoners . . . . . . . . 44
Controls on Travelers . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fighting Arts and Sports . . . . . . . . 44
The Sumptuary Laws . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Pawnbrokers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The Forged Travel Pass . . . . . . . . 44
The Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Dutch Traders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Kabuki and Bunraku . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Hiraga Gennai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The Opening of Japan (1854-1868) . . . 46
Japan and the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Adventuring When West
Meets Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Siebold and his Students . . . . . . . . 46
The · saka Riot of 1837 . . . . . . . . . 46
1. Feudal Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Japanese Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Clan and Sh½gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Japanese Landscape . . . . . . . . . 6
Geographic Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Tech Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Map of Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Major Political Factions . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Imperial Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Buddhist Temples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Clan and Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chinese Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Clans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Merchants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Social Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Taira and Minamoto Rivalry . . . 9
Social Ideals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Filial Piety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Feudal Loyalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Kamakura Era (1192-1333) . . . 10
Life Stages and Events . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Japanese Proverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Divorce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Gempuku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Inkyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Japanese Manners . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Criminal Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Arrest and Punishment . . . . . . . . . 13
Capital Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Geisha and Courtesans . . . . . . . . . 13
Lesser Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Civil Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Traveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Killing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Apprentices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Spirits of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Setting the Campaign’s
Religious Level . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Mitigating Circumstances . . . . . . . 17
Shint½ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Legendary Japan’s
Religious Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Kami Messengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Ancestral Kami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Living Kami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2. The Warring
Provinces Era . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The Ashikaga Wars of Succession
(1467-1568) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Background: The Go-Daigo Revolt
and the Early Ashikaga Era . . . 27
The Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Social Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Personal Loyalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Temples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Who’s in Charge Here? . . . . . . . . . 29
The Emperors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The Merchants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Saito Toshimasa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Rennyo, Priest of
Amida Buddha . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Craft Guilds and Trade Secrets . . . 30
The Warring Daimy½ . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
First Contact with Westerners . . . . 31
The Unification (1568-1600) . . . . . . 32
The Great Unifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Westerners’ Reaction to Japanese . 32
The Japanese and
the Missionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hosokawa Gracia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Parallel European History . . . . . . 36
4. Timeline of
Japanese History . . . . . . . . . 47
5. Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Character Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Character Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Character Templates vs.
Racial Templates . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Medieval Japanese
Height/Weight Table . . . . . . . . . 53
Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Template Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Name Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Honorifics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Japanese Name Elements . . . . . . . 55
Sample Geinin:
Korezo (100 points) . . . . . . . . . .57
Sample Buss ½ :
Shioji (100 points) . . . . . . . . . . .58
Sample Sanzoku:
Tar ½ the Tiger (100 points) . . . . 59
Sample Geisha:
Wakaba (100 points) . . . . . . . . .60
Sample Mah ½ tsukai:
Tamahiko (100 points) . . . . . . . 61
Racial Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3. The Late
Tokugawa Era . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The Sh½guns of the
Late Tokugawa Era . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Background: The Early
Tokugawa Sh ½ guns . . . . . . . . . 38
The Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Social Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Who’s in Charge Here?
(Part Two) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
The Imperial Court . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Sh½gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Daimy½ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Tokugawa Shogunate
and the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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Sample Ninja:
O-Aki (100 points) . . . . . . . . . . 62
Sample R ½ nin:
Hasegawa Eiji (100 points) . . . 63
Sample Yamabushi: Yasukuni . . . . 64
Sample Kitsune Hengey ½ kai:
Sarusaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Cultural Familiarity:
Advantages and Skills . . . . . . . . 69
Extraordinary Diligence to
Maintain High Skill . . . . . . . . . 69
Economics, Jobs, and Wealth . . . . . . 72
Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Finding Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Job Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Readying Carried Weapons . . . . . . 87
Siege Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Path Obstacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Japanese Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Knives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Spears and Staffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Poisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Peasant Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Missile Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Extra-Powerful Bows . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Special Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Costs of New Items
From the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Evolution of the
Japanese Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Lodging and Other Amenities . . . . 93
Travel and Wilderness Gear . . . . . 93
Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Readying Clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
After the Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Weapons Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
The Place of Mystery . . . . . . . . . . 108
The Arrival of
Western Travelers . . . . . . . . . . 109
Mapping the Campaign . . . . . . . . . . 110
The Friendly Native
and The Old Japan Hand . . . . 110
The Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Campaign Crossovers . . . . . . . . . 111
The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
10. Japanese Bestiary . . . . . . 114
Natural Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Hebi (Snake) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Higuma (Bear) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Hotaru (Firefly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Kame (Tortoise or Turtle) . . . . . . 115
K½rogi (Cricket) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Oshidori (Mandarin Duck) . . . . . 115
Shika (Deer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Usagi (Rabbit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Hengey½kai (Shapeshifters) . . . . . . 116
Inu (Dog) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Kashin (Flower) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Kodama (Tree) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Tsuchigumo (Spider) . . . . . . . . . . 116
Neko (Cat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Nezumi (Rat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Tanuki (Raccoon Dog) . . . . . . . . 117
Hunted Shapeshifters . . . . . . . . . . 117
Fabulous Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Amikiri (Net Cutter) . . . . . . . . . . 117
Hikigaeru (Giant Toad) . . . . . . . . 118
Hitotsumekoz½
(One-Eyed Goblin) . . . . . . . . .118
Kappa (River Goblin) . . . . . . . . . 118
Kirin (Fabulous Horse) . . . . . . . . 118
Mukade (Giant Centipede) . . . . . 118
My½ (Buddhist
Guardian Warrior) . . . . . . . . . .119
Nue (Goblin Bird) . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Oni (Demon Goblin) . . . . . . . . . . 119
Onibi (Demon Fire) . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Orochi (Serpent) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Otoroshi (Steeple Dweller) . . . . . 120
Samebito (Shark Man) . . . . . . . . . 120
Saru (Goblin Monkey) . . . . . . . . . 120
Shiry½ (Ghost) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Tatsu (Dragon) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Tengu (Forest Goblin) . . . . . . . . . 121
Ommoraki (Harpy) . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Umib½zu (Giant Cuttlefish) . . . . . 122
Waira (Alligator Dog) . . . . . . . . . 122
Yama Hito (Mountain Goblin) . . 122
Yukionna (Snow Maiden) . . . . . . 122
6. Bujutsu: Japanese
Martial Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Style Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Bujutsu Ry ü . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Bujutsu of Feudal Japan . . . . . . . . . . 77
Aikijutsu (Harmony) . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Bajutsu (Horsemanship) . . . . . . . . 77
Shield Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Iaijutsu (Sword Drawing) . . . . . . . 78
Martial Arts Schools . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Kenjutsu (Sword) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Kiaijutsu (Energy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Kyüjutsu (Bow) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Other Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
The Kiai-o-matic,
As Seen on TV! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Masaki Ryü (Weighted Chain) . . . . 80
Naginatajutsu (Polearm)
and S½jutsu (Spear) . . . . . . . . . . 80
Nit ½ and Gorin no Sho . . . . . . . . . . 80
Ninjutsu (Mystery) . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Nit½ Ryü (Two Swords) . . . . . . . . 81
Ninja Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Shind½-Müs½ Ryü (Staff) . . . . . . . 82
Here a Jutsu, There a Jutsu ... . . 82
Sum ½ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Suieijutsu (Swimming) . . . . . . . . . 83
Customizing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Head Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
8. Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Changes to the
GURPS Magic Rules . . . . . . . . . . .99
Increased Magic Resistance . . . . . . . 99
Asian Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Available Standard Spells . . . . . . . . 100
Demons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Minions of Demons . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Spell List for GURPS Japan . . . . . 101
Animal Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Communication and Empathy . . . 101
Earth Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Air Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Fire Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Metal Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Water Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Wood Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Enchantment Spells . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Food Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Healing Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Illusion and Creation Spells . . . . . 104
Knowledge Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Light and Darkness Spells . . . . . . 105
Making and Breaking Spells . . . . 105
Meta-Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Mind Control Spells . . . . . . . . . . 106
Movement Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Necromantic Spells . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Protection and Warning Spells . . 106
Sound Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
9. The Japanese
Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Basic Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Campaign Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
The Eight Sights of Lake Biwa . . . 108
City Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
7. Weapons and
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Distinctive Japanese Weapons . . . . . 84
Swords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Bows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Weapon Quality
and Personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Ninja Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
A Sword By Any Other Name
(Optional Rule) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Sword Etiquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
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