Softcover book is in good condition with some light scuffing on cover. Interior pages excellent.
Why should Western-style clerics, fighters, and magic-users have all the fun of dungeon adventuring and fighting strange monsters like stirges and purple worms? What about samurai and monks? Don’t they get a chance? Absolutely -- in RUINS & RONIN. This isn’t a game of tea ceremonies, haiku, or accurate historical depictions of medieval Japan; it’s a game where the fictional world of the samurai movie becomes the basis for swords & sorcery adventure in a mythical, medieval culture that’s almost like Japan.
In RUINS & RONIN, the players take on the roles of bujin (fighting-men, including samurai), spell-casting shugenja, and wise sohei (warrior monks). Will they choose to explore strange ruins in the wilderness? Deep, forgotten dungeons under crumbling pagoda-fortresses built by ancient sorcerers? Perhaps if they achieve great status and power, they might even become daimyos, lords of castles with private armies and fearsome reputations. But the wild places of this world contain strange and fearsome monsters as well as vast riches and magical items. Spirit creatures roam the wilderness by night, and the rocky hills abound with goblins and their kin, always looking to the civilized lands below as a source of plunder and conquest. This is the legend-world of RUINS & RONIN. Samurai up.
RUINS & RONIN is compatible with the SWORDS & WIZARDRY WHITEBOX rules, allowing you to mix and match the elements of the two games to create a truly unusual fantasy setting.
