The legend of the five rings started as a collective card game franchise with a rich meta-plot, then expanded to table games with role-playing games. The wandering adventure PCs continue in The Ninja Crusade get heavy inspiration from Ninja Scroll anime, along with more modern works such as Naruto franchise. Players create characters adapted to one of the ten clans of the Lotus Coalition, each specializing in specific skills and embodying different archetypes of ninjas. Some of these ninja RPGs take place in historical fantasy environments similar to the time in which the actual ninjas existed (as with Sekiro: Shadows The Twice’s setting and NPCs), while others have ninjas jumping over the roofs of modern metropolises each, regardless, is about role-playing ninjas in stylish, insidious ways.Ģnd edition of The Ninja Crusade, available on Drivethru RPG.com and in a fantasy version of medieval Japan, is about heroic ninjas from the Lotus Coalition fighting in a resistance war against the militant forces of the Izou Empire. Many of the role-playing games listed below were written by people who did their research on actual historical ninjas, and then decided wholeheartedly to embrace the stylized pop culture perception of ninjas, “Shadow Clones” and all that. Ask a historian about ninjas, and they may mention the mercenary subgroup “Shinobi”, which originated in 12th-century Japan, rented out as spies and assassins to warlords, wielded weapons inspired by agricultural implements, and would often disguise themselves as servants up close.
SNEAKY NINJA KICKSTARTER SERIES
Ask people who grew up during the 2000s or 2010s and they can name Ninja Gaiden series or Lego Ninjago franchises, media about warriors using magical “Ninjutsu” techniques and exotic martial arts. Ninjas are cool, just like tabletop role-playing games Therefore, tabletop -RPGs with ninjas in them must be extra cool! But what is a ninja, exactly, and what makes them such a staple in pop culture? The following RPG systems, each with their own stylized recording of ninjas somewhere in the spectrum between Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, try to answer this question.Īsk most people born in the 20th century what a ninja is and they will generally think of a sneaky assassin in dark clothes and a hooded cloak carrying exotic weapons like throwing stars, seals and Sai daggers.
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