Game Worlds

Yaranaika

Yaranaika (Japanese: やらないか, yaranaika, 'Won't you do it?') is a campaign set in the world of Mythical East at the late 1500s. All the supernatural creatures, monsters, and magic of the Orient actually exist in this world. Some martial artists and ninjas actually have supernatural powers. Ki is a very real thing.

Character Creation

Classes

Cleric (Bokushi)
Fighter (Bushi)
Komusō (lit. "straw-mat monk")
Majo (witch or magic girl)
Monk
Ninja
Sōhei (soldier-monk)

Character Origins

Backgrounds

Ainu
Artisan
Burakumin
Merchant
Peasant
Samurai

Homelands: China, Hokkaidō, Kansai region, Kantō region, Korea, Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands, Gaijin (most from Portugal, some from Spain and Netherlands, rarely English). Ainu, Chinese and Koreans are not really considered gaijins.

Examples of professions:

butcher* carpenter chef fireworks maker fisherman gatherer grave digger* jeweler paper maker swordsmith† sword polisher† leatherworker, tatami maker,

†Highly prestigious professions.
*Traditionally only burakumin or foreigners work in these professions.

Species (humanoid)

Dragonborn
Goliath
Human
Korpokkur
Tiefling

Species (yōkai)

Inugami
Kitsune
Nekogami
Oni
Orc
Tanuki
Tengu
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