Bushido (role-playing game)
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Bushido is a Samurai role-playing game set in Feudal Japan, originally designed by Robert N. Charrette and Paul R. Hume[1] and published originally by Tyr Games, then Phoenix Games, and subsequently by Fantasy Games Unlimited. The setting for the game is a land called Nippon, and characters adventure in this heroic, mythic, and fantastic analogue of Japan's past.
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![]() Cover of Bushido's 2nd Ed. core rules, Book II | |
Designers | Robert N. Charrette, Paul R. Hume |
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Publishers | Phoenix Games |
Publication | 1979 (Tyr Games) 1980 (Phoenix Games) 1981 (Fantasy Games Unlimited) |
Genres | Fantasy |
Systems | Custom |
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It is thematically based on Chanbara movies, such as those made by Akira Kurosawa, in which the heroes are modestly superhuman but not extraordinarily so.