NewEdo - A Neon Samurai RPG
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NewEdo is a game designed for players who love the character creation and customization process. Set in a city where a thousand years of tradition have come into conflict with the rapid pace of modern life¸ NewEdo's core theme is change.
Character Creation: with 10 Lineages (your physical form) based largely on creatures from Japanese lore¸ and 21 Paths (your job or role in the game¸ which affects your politics as much as it affects your abilities)¸ NewEdo gives you a broad foundation on which to build your perfect character. Then you use a Priority Buy process to assign a level of importance to each of your character's Backgrounds¸ Magic¸ Augmentations¸ Skills and Core Traits - a higher priority grants you more resources¸ at the expense of forcing a lower priority on another cateogry. With this system¸ no two characters are ever the same¸ even those built on the same Lineage and Path foundation.
Setting: NewEdo is a massive metropolis where the past and future collide¸ in a world where belief can literally change reality. While it shares some neon-urban aesthetics of cyberpunk-style games¸ NewEdo's adventures revolve around its various inflection points - between past and future¸ tradition and technology¸ mysticism and science. In one district¸ traditional wooden homes wind up and down labyrinthine streets¸ while only a short subway ride away¸ 100-storey skyscrapers pierce the city's neon-tinted clouds. Kimono-clad samurai share the streets with cybernetic soldiers¸ hacker-mystics¸ and pink-haired revolutionaries. Characters are intended to be larger than life¸ Legends who can change the future of the setting.
System: NewEdo uses a medium-crunch dice pool (Trait + Skill) system¸ customized with mechanics that encourage and reward unique gameplay decisions. Your character's Legend is the reason they do what they do¸ and acts as NewEdo's only meta-currency¸ fueling your amazing abilities. The Fate Card is a wholly unique mechanic that introduces the potential for random outcomes into every action¸ while at the same time acting as a record of your decisions at the table.