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	~~{{stub}}~~		'''Feng Shui''' is the name of two separate things:

	Feng Shui is the name of two separate things:

	* A new-age thing that allows neurotic control freaks to look spiritual.		* A new-age thing that allows neurotic control freaks to look spiritual.

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Feng Shui

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	In addition to the factions listed above, three more factions have significant influence on the setting and metaplot:		In addition to the factions listed above, three more factions have significant influence on the setting and metaplot:

	The '''Jammers''' are a group of balls-out crazy anarchists who are among the few people born with immunity to the influence of chi. They started as rebels against the Buro and the Architects in 2056, and have developed their own brand of junkyard tech that doesn't rely on arcanowave science. They were founded by Battlechimp Potemkin, a cybernetically-enhanced ape who was created by the Buro to be a general for a whole army of super-apes, but ended up convincing his creators to help him bust out of the lab that made him. The Battlechimp is a seriously tough cookie who makes "ethical flexibility" his motto and will do ''anything'' in the name of getting back at the Buro; one of the first things he did was use the technology from the ape lab to start making a super-ape army for himself. The Jammers want nothing less than to destroy every Feng Shui site in existence so that humanity can be freed from the "tyranny" of chi, which would almost certainly kill the human race. They're actually getting openings generated for them by the Ascended, who are [[Butthurt\|frustrated]] by the fact that they get torn to pieces between 1999 and 2056 and plan to pull the rug out from under the Jammers when they win and sell out like every successful revolutionary group in history.		The '''Jammers''' are a group of balls-out crazy anarchists who are among the few people born with immunity to the influence of chi. They started as rebels against the Buro and the Architects in 2056, and have developed their own brand of junkyard tech that doesn't rely on arcanowave science. They were founded by Battlechimp Potemkin, a cybernetically-enhanced ape who was created by the Buro to be a general for a whole army of super-apes, but ended up convincing his creators to help him bust out of the lab that made him. The Battlechimp is a seriously tough cookie who makes "ethical flexibility" his motto and will do ''anything'' in the name of getting back at the Buro; one of the first things he did was use the technology from the ape lab to start making a super-ape army for himself. The Jammers want nothing less than to destroy every Feng Shui site in existence so that humanity can be freed from the "tyranny" of chi, which would almost certainly kill the human race. This doesn't bother them as much as you'd think; in their minds being dead is better than being slaves to cosmic forces. They're actually getting openings generated for them by the Ascended, who are [[Butthurt\|frustrated]] by the fact that they get torn to pieces between 1999 and 2056 and plan to pull the rug out from under the Jammers when they win and sell out like every successful revolutionary group in history.

	The '''Four Monarchs''' are four siblings and powerful sorcerers who divided the world up between themselves to rule, until the the Ascended captured enough Feng Shui sites in the medieval era to trigger a Critical Shift in time that brought about the world we know and removed them from power by destabilizing the magic they relied on. Each monarch has carved out his or her own little kingdom in the Netherworld, where it still worked, and they continually plot and scheme against each other and against the other factions. They are, respectively, '''Li Ting''', an atheist who once ruled from Jerusalem (irony) who embodies the intelligent and rational aspects of fire in the most nastily selfish and Ayn Rand-ian way possible, '''Huan Ken''', who was both the Thunder King and the Pope, and is a hot-blooded, mercurial figure who runs around wearing nothing above the waist but his pope-hat and is the best of the four in terms of straight-up ass-kicking, '''Pi Tui''', a literal ice queen who is respected but not loved, gives her subjects a Bill of Rights, and perennial secret patron of the Dragons who, beneath her aloof facade, has come to regret the lives she and her siblings have led and admits that the world is better off with them trapped in the Netherworld, and '''Ming I''', the most straight-up evil of the four and one of the worst villains in the game. She ruled over China and South/Central America in a nightmarish orgy of blood-magic and human sacrifice to remain forever young, and has twisted her once-benevolent shadow powers into evil soul-eating perversions in her relentless thirst to reconquer all time and space.		The '''Four Monarchs''' are four siblings and powerful sorcerers who divided the world up between themselves to rule, until the the Ascended captured enough Feng Shui sites in the medieval era to trigger a Critical Shift in time that brought about the world we know and removed them from power by destabilizing the magic they relied on. Each monarch has carved out his or her own little kingdom in the Netherworld, where it still worked, and they continually plot and scheme against each other and against the other factions. They are, respectively, '''Li Ting''', an atheist who once ruled from Jerusalem (irony) who embodies the intelligent and rational aspects of fire in the most nastily selfish and Ayn Rand-ian way possible, '''Huan Ken''', who was both the Thunder King and the Pope, and is a hot-blooded, mercurial figure who runs around wearing nothing above the waist but his pope-hat and is the best of the four in terms of straight-up ass-kicking, '''Pi Tui''', a literal ice queen who is respected but not loved, gives her subjects a Bill of Rights, and perennial secret patron of the Dragons who, beneath her aloof facade, has come to regret the lives she and her siblings have led and admits that the world is better off with them trapped in the Netherworld, and '''Ming I''', the most straight-up evil of the four and one of the worst villains in the game. She ruled over China and South/Central America in a nightmarish orgy of blood-magic and human sacrifice to remain forever young, and has twisted her once-benevolent shadow powers into evil soul-eating perversions in her relentless thirst to reconquer all time and space.

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	'''69 AD:''' A juncture straight out of Hong Kong wuxia movies, the Hong Kong of this juncture is nominally ruled by the Han Dynasty, but officials have become corrupt, and a secret faction of evil eunuch sorcerers known as the '''Eaters of the Lotus''' have taken over the administration of the empire, quashing dissent with kung fu mercenaries, summoned demons, and powerful sorcery.		'''69 AD:''' A juncture straight out of Hong Kong wuxia movies, the Hong Kong of this juncture is nominally ruled by the Han Dynasty, but officials have become corrupt, and a secret faction of evil eunuch sorcerers known as the '''Eaters of the Lotus''' have taken over the administration of the empire, quashing dissent with kung fu mercenaries, summoned demons, and powerful sorcery.

	'''1850 AD:''' A juncture straight out of period kung fu cinema, where the Chinese and the Western powers clash in Hong Kong. It's also the period for Victorian adventures and Wild West action. One of the groups seeking power is the '''Guiding Hand''', a group of Shaolin monks and other kung fu types who want to get rid of foreign influence in China and bring about a world of enlightenment, which in their mind means a boring and stagnant bureaucracy in which everyone does exactly what their parents and superiors tell them forever. They fucking ''hate'' the contemporary juncture. They're clashing with the Ascended for control of it, a fight which they are currently set to lose.		'''1850 AD:''' A juncture straight out of period kung fu cinema, where the Chinese and the Western powers clash in Hong Kong. It's also the period for Victorian adventures and Wild West action. One of the groups seeking power is the '''Guiding Hand''', a group of Shaolin monks and other kung fu types who want to get rid of foreign influence in China and bring about a world of enlightenment, which in their mind means a boring and stagnant bureaucracy in which everyone does exactly what their parents and superiors tell them forever. They fucking ''hate'' the contemporary juncture. They're clashing with the Ascended for control of 1850, a fight which they are currently set to lose.

	'''Contemporary ("1996"):''' The modern day, such as it is in the Heroic Bloodshed genre. This juncture (as well as most of 1850) is controlled by the '''Ascended''', an Ancient Conspiracy made up of the descendants of animals who defied the natural order and transformed themselves into humans long ago, but retain many inhuman superpowers based on their animal selves. The only thing that can turn them back into their natural animal form is magic, and thus, the Ascended and their human agents, the Pledged, are actively involved in the suppression of magic and the discrediting or destruction of sorcerers. The Ascended [[Mage: The Ascension\| control the government, the police, the military, and most of the major crime syndicates of the world with their chi-based superpowers, and they aim to keep the world 100% magic-free and their own pocketbooks full of easy cash]].		'''Contemporary ("1996"):''' The modern day, such as it is in the Heroic Bloodshed genre. This juncture (as well as most of 1850) is controlled by the '''Ascended''', an Ancient Conspiracy made up of the descendants of animals who defied the natural order and transformed themselves into humans long ago, but retain many inhuman superpowers based on their animal selves. The only thing that can turn them back into their natural animal form is magic, and thus, the Ascended and their human agents, the Pledged, are actively involved in the suppression of magic and the discrediting or destruction of sorcerers. The Ascended [[Mage: The Ascension\| control the government, the police, the military, and most of the major crime syndicates of the world with their chi-based superpowers, and they aim to keep the world 100% magic-free and their own pocketbooks full of easy cash]].

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	*'''Gun schticks''' are for characters that are good with guns. Duh. These mostly consist of passive benefits for using guns, or active techniques for a quick boost, and are the simplest schticks in this way, since the only major downsides to guns are occasional supply issues outside the Present day juncture and the ruleset governing reloading, and/or dramatically throwing away empty guns to draw fresh ones. "Guns" also covers bow-wielding characters, and using a bow has the benefit of less time spent reloading at a dramatically inconvenient moment.		*'''Gun schticks''' are for characters that are good with guns. Duh. These mostly consist of passive benefits for using guns, or active techniques for a quick boost, and are the simplest schticks in this way, since the only major downsides to guns are occasional supply issues outside the Present day juncture and the ruleset governing reloading, and/or dramatically throwing away empty guns to draw fresh ones. "Guns" also covers bow-wielding characters, and using a bow has the benefit of less time spent reloading at a dramatically inconvenient moment.
	*'''Fu schticks''' are for super kung fu powers with names like "Claw of the Dragon" and shit. No Kamehamehas, though, that's for Sorcery. You spend "fu points" derived from your Chi [[stat]] to activate your fu schticks and then you do crazy [[Fist of the North Star]] bullshit. Notably, many fu powers also work with melee weapons. If you're playing a transformed animal, you get a bonus to use fu schticks that are named after what kind of animal you are.		*'''Fu schticks''' are for super kung fu powers with names like "Claw of the Dragon" and shit. No Kamehamehas, though, that's for Sorcery. You spend "fu points" derived from your Chi [[stat]] to activate your fu schticks and then you do crazy [[Fist of the North Star]] bullshit. Notably, many fu powers also work with melee weapons. If you're playing a transformed animal, you get a bonus to use fu schticks that are named after what kind of animal you are.
	*'''Transformed ~~animal~~ schticks''' govern the supernatural powers wielded by intelligent animals that turned themselves human through spiritual refinement and their descendants. A whole assload of these things, separated into thematic buckets based on what animal you are; they tend to have more passive and out-of-combat benefits than fu schticks. Transformed dragons can learn any transformed animal schtick. Feng Shui 2 removed all the transformed animals except for transformed crabs and dragons, paring everyone else down to a bare-minimum stat block with access to the animal schticks that were left in for dragons to use.		*'''Transformed Animal schticks''' govern the supernatural powers wielded by intelligent animals that turned themselves human through spiritual refinement and their descendants. A whole assload of these things, separated into thematic buckets based on what animal you are; they tend to have more passive and out-of-combat benefits than fu schticks. Transformed dragons can learn any transformed animal schtick. Feng Shui 2 removed all the transformed animals except for transformed crabs and dragons, paring everyone else down to a bare-minimum stat block with access to the animal schticks that were left in for dragons to use.
	*'''Magical schticks''' represent the Sorcery powers you know. Fireballs, divination, sensing chi flow, stuff like that. Magic is extra-dangerous for transformed animals, because exposure to magic makes them turn into animals again-- and they can't change back, so it's effectively instant death. (Feng Shui 2 turned this into a "three strikes" system that increasingly impacts the story until you get reverted for real.) The main drawbacks of Sorcery are that it gets modifiers based on the juncture you're in (unless you're in contemporary Hong Kong) and getting a Way-Awful Failure on a Sorcery check turns the spell back on you in gruesome fashion.		*'''Magical schticks''' represent the Sorcery powers you know. Fireballs, divination, sensing chi flow, stuff like that. Magic is extra-dangerous for transformed animals, because exposure to certain types of magic makes them turn into animals again-- and they can't change back, so it's effectively instant death. (Feng Shui 2 turned this into a "three strikes" system that increasingly impacts the story until you get reverted for real.) The main drawbacks of Sorcery are that it gets modifiers based on the juncture you're in (unless you're in contemporary Hong Kong) and getting a Way-Awful Failure on a Sorcery check turns the spell back on you in gruesome fashion.
	*'''Creature schticks''' represent the powers and traits of supernatural creatures from the ancient past. This can be anything from razor-sharp claws to shapeshifting to stealing peoples' chi by sticking quills in their testicles. Characters that can take these usually can't be healed by doctors from outside their native juncture because medicine from anywhere else can't handle their alien biology.		*'''Creature schticks''' represent the powers and traits of supernatural creatures from the ancient past. This can be anything from razor-sharp claws to shapeshifting to stealing peoples' chi by sticking quills in their testicles. Characters that can take these usually can't be healed by doctors from outside their native juncture because medicine from anywhere else can't handle their alien biology.
	*'''Arcanowave schticks''' cover the ability to use arcanowave devices, living tools and weapons grown in labs by the Buro and infused with the souls of demons and other supernatural creatures from 69 AD. Doesn't sound bad? They all look like depictions of Chinese demons filtered through the mind of H.R. Giger. Oh, and they can mutate you if you use them for extended periods. Characters with these schticks ''and'' Creature schticks are immune to mutation, but they can only be healed by doctors experienced in ''both'' medicine from ancient China and the dark future.		*'''Arcanowave schticks''' cover the ability to use arcanowave devices, living tools and weapons grown in labs by the Buro and infused with the souls of demons and other supernatural creatures from 69 AD. Doesn't sound bad? They all look like depictions of Chinese demons filtered through the mind of H.R. Giger. Oh, and they can mutate you if you use them for extended periods. Characters with these schticks ''and'' Creature schticks are immune to mutation, but they can only be healed by doctors experienced in ''both'' medicine from ancient China and the dark future.

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	* A ~~faggy~~ new-age thing that allows neurotic control freaks to look spiritual.		* A new-age thing that allows neurotic control freaks to look spiritual.
	* The RPG where the first session can open with [[Legend of the Five Rings\|a kung-fu master]], [[D20 Modern\|a loose-cannon cop who plays by his own rules]], [[Wu jen\|a sorcerer from the mists of Chinese history]], and [[Jokaero\|a cyborg gorilla]] eating noodles in a restaurant staffed entirely by ninjas, all with absolutely no homebrewing on the GM's part.		* The RPG where the first session can open with [[Legend of the Five Rings\|a kung-fu master]], [[D20 Modern\|a loose-cannon cop who plays by his own rules]], [[Wu jen\|a sorcerer from the mists of Chinese history]], and [[Jokaero\|a cyborg gorilla]] eating noodles in a restaurant staffed entirely by ninjas, all with absolutely no homebrewing on the GM's part.

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	* A faggy new-age thing that allows neurotic control freaks to look spiritual.		* A faggy new-age thing that allows neurotic control freaks to look spiritual.
	* The ~~only~~ RPG where the first session can open with [[Legend of the Five Rings\|a kung-fu master]], [[D20 Modern\|a loose-cannon cop who plays by his own rules]], [[Wu jen\|a sorcerer from the mists of Chinese history]], and [[Jokaero\|a cyborg gorilla]] eating noodles in a restaurant staffed entirely by ninjas, all with absolutely no homebrewing on the GM's part.		* The RPG where the first session can open with [[Legend of the Five Rings\|a kung-fu master]], [[D20 Modern\|a loose-cannon cop who plays by his own rules]], [[Wu jen\|a sorcerer from the mists of Chinese history]], and [[Jokaero\|a cyborg gorilla]] eating noodles in a restaurant staffed entirely by ninjas, all with absolutely no homebrewing on the GM's part.

	This game is designed in homage to Hong Kong action movies, so expect ridiculous fight scenes and a plot that exists primarily to give the PCs opportunities to show off their [[Weeaboo Fightan Magic]]. God only knows why nobody's made conversion rules for running [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]] games yet. The system is like a very early precursor to the [[FATE System]], using the "wilder curve" of rolling two differently-colored [[d6]]s and subtracting one from the other before adding skill modifiers that some FATE games use as an alternative rolling scheme alongside [[exploding dice]]. The main source of PC abilities is by taking '''schticks,''' special powers and features (and also the crunchier counterpart of FATE's Aspects) which range from secret techniques handed down from the old masters to demon limbs grafted to your body to just being really good at shooting guns. There were two versions of the first edition, one by Daedalus Entertainment in 1996, the second by Atlas Games in 1999, which kept the original text, rolled in some extra archetypes from the ''Back For Seconds'' supplement, and gave it new art and layout. It is very, ''very'' 90s. A full second edition, ''Feng Shui 2'', came out in 2015, updating the mechanics and setting to fit modern design sensibilities.		This game is designed in homage to Hong Kong action movies, so expect ridiculous fight scenes and a plot that exists primarily to give the PCs opportunities to show off their [[Weeaboo Fightan Magic]]. God only knows why nobody's made conversion rules for running [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]] games yet. The system is like a very early precursor to the [[FATE System]], using the "wilder curve" of rolling two differently-colored [[d6]]s and subtracting one from the other before adding skill modifiers that some FATE games use as an alternative rolling scheme alongside [[exploding dice]]. The main source of PC abilities is by taking '''schticks,''' special powers and features (and also the crunchier counterpart of FATE's Aspects) which range from secret techniques handed down from the old masters to demon limbs grafted to your body to just being really good at shooting guns. There were two versions of the first edition, one by Daedalus Entertainment in 1996, the second by Atlas Games in 1999, which kept the original text, rolled in some extra archetypes from the ''Back For Seconds'' supplement, and gave it new art and layout. It is very, ''very'' 90s. A full second edition, ''Feng Shui 2'', came out in 2015, updating the mechanics and setting to fit modern design sensibilities.