I've been reading Wushu: Black belt edition (PWYW) and I like it's versatility. But I wondered how to use it for dungeon crawls.
If you don't know, Wushu is an RPG meant to.simulate Wuxia style Kung Fu movies. Running up walls, jumping way up, launching at your for leg extended in a crazy dragon kick... And it assumes success for all actions described but not necessarily resolution of conflict. So you have lots of mooks (ninjas, robots, goblins) and kill them in interesting ways until you roll enough success to defeat the challenge.
And you roll a number of dice equal to the number of details used to describe your action. So it encourages zany, intricate scenes. Camera angles, sweat drops suspended, bullet time...
Which brings me back to dungeons. You could treat every room as hostile. Full of swarming fleash eating beetles, crumbling ground, shuriken launching wall traps. Like Dragons Lair.
Any thoughts? Anyone played Wushu? Solo or otherwise...
We've done all kinds of stuff in Wushu, including Aliens (the film), military scifi etc.
ReplyDeleteThe trickis... you are rewarded for description. You can totally playa gritty battle in Wushu, you just have to change the details you are narrating.
I cant play it too often, because its so exhausting but i adore Wushu and have literally never had a bad game of it.
Ever try it solo?
ReplyDeleteSeems like solo would result in a vivid actual play report.
ReplyDeleteIf you are one of the solo-types who like "playing by writing" blog-style, I think it'd work wonderfully.
ReplyDeleteImagining a cycle of narration. First, god narration which describes as a gm would. Then each character or several characters in concert take their turns. The encounter lasts until you remove HP for the challenge.
ReplyDeleteA level two Ninja horde could be any number of ninja. An ocean of ninjas. And you and your team acts in any way for sure. It's the law of narrative truth. And roll. Every successfully rolled dice removes an hp.
Maybe you keep a table of narrative prompts. Monolith Chasm Puppetry Glistening
ReplyDeleteAnd you roll to determine which or how many prompts you get. You describe that for yourself to respond to. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cRVin9JTuedl0eZZzr0wVepGgMbB8Zg_eHYJBK5xp0dUuSpElWDLBc4_9VokM-0Fm9vaxY-QrC0
Roll d6 to determine the challenge level.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I should be writing a PDF.
I just read wushu. It's pretty cool and very suitable for solo play.
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