I’m super jazzed that you dig the game! We pitched an expansion to Osprey which would add more magical and supernatural elements. They passed but gave us the option of publishing it ourselves. Not sure if we’ll ever get that done and published on our own, fingers crossed. Thanks for your inspirational content, keep up the good work. P.S. I hope your players get their revenge on Bloody Hands!

@antigrav6004

Жыл бұрын

You should do it. I've been working on a martial arts RPG for a while myself and always like to see some new inspiration.

@SSkorkowsky

Жыл бұрын

You did good, sir. It's a fun game. No idea why Osprey doesn't want to add more. It seems weird. Once the holiday season is done, we need to get to Bloody Hands. The longer we wait the more elaborate his fortress is becoming. He's also recruited several enemies from the PCs' previous adventures.

@FMD-FullMetalDragon

Жыл бұрын

More supernatural would be awesome. Way awesome.

@Deathblade

Жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky Thank you sir!

@Deathblade

Жыл бұрын

@@FMD-FullMetalDragon Totally agree. We've actually created some really cool content already. Then we ran into scheduling issues. And beyond that, we would also have to deal with commissioning art and whatnot. Anyway, Brendan and I still talk about this regularly and we're trying to figure out a way to make it happen!

I'm convinced at least 50% of Seth's motivation for this review was to get Jack another costume!

@SSkorkowsky

Жыл бұрын

I'm unable to refute this.

Re: The challenge of keeping track of a bunch of bad guys, each with a list of unique abilities. As a GM who frequently runs superhero games, I feel your pain...

@SamuraiMujuru

Жыл бұрын

My primary game is Exalted, so right there with ya.

@frankmueller2781

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was wondering about Combat with the heros vs. The small hoard of talentless soldiers. (AKA; Canon fodder)

@RandomEncounterFilms

Жыл бұрын

I grew up on Champions, but it wasn't till I ran it that I realized the work my previous DM put in :P. I did find "modular" enemies work well in point-by games for that sort of thing.

@himurogentoku7117

Жыл бұрын

What superhero game TTRPGs do you play if i may ask Kevin? I am still looking for a cool one for my short campaign.

@JKevinCarrier

Жыл бұрын

@@himurogentoku7117 The system I use is Mighty Protectors (aka Villains & Vigilantes 3.0) from Monkey House Games. Has a lot of customization options, and you can generate characters either by random roll or point-buy.

I love that Jack always has a period & culturally appropriate flask 😂

@arjunchoong8012

Жыл бұрын

This is the first time I have seen the words "culturally" and "appropriate" together in a sentence that does not make me cringe

@trequor

Жыл бұрын

@@arjunchoong8012 Aye. He is the chosen one.

@LittlyLary

Жыл бұрын

Jyuack and his Gourd

This is a game that would benefit from a NPC card deck that has all the NPC stats on hand to avoid book flipping

@SSkorkowsky

Жыл бұрын

Not a bad idea at all.

Every round should start with a talking phase. That is brilliant and on point for WuXia.

@damiennixel925

Жыл бұрын

About to use my finest "Courting death!"

@otakuofmine

Жыл бұрын

TSL kinda has such thing, essentially exchanging lines while crossing swords.

Hopefully the rash of orders spurred by this video will convince them to make more material for the game! Happy New Year! 🎉

The idea of a dedicated Talking phase of combat, that recurs every round, blows my mind. It really enforces the tropey nature of the game, and paces the fight out in a way that gives more room for roleplay. Players will WANT to do it, too, since it gives them mechanical bonuses.

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

And it's fun to mock your opponent in an over-the-top way. "Your kung fu is outdated, just like you, old man!" "Pshah, I was practicing kung fu long before when you were even born, whelp!"

When all the dice in an opposed contest come up ties, that's a perfect opportunity for a stalemate.

@thebolas000

Жыл бұрын

For the arm wrestling example, having the table collapse while both contestants sit completely motionless with locked eyes sounds like a fun way to show how badass the scene is.

@archonfett

11 ай бұрын

the epic back and forth parrying of attacks

Again, impressed by the effort gone into in Jack's outfit and props. The contrast of the character dress with a broad US accent is fantastic. All you need him to do now is correctly pronounce some Chinese words compared to Seth. Yes, anything another other than expensive baijiu tastes like cigarette ash and metho. I recommend the Jing brand herbal baijiu: it tastes more like a cough syrup and is both affordable and drinkable.

@samprastherabbit

Жыл бұрын

I honestly forget that in real life, they inhabit the same man! Like Etrigan and Blood lol That baiju stuff sounds rougher than a pebble dashed driveway covered in broken glass! Drunken Masters must have basically no taste buds left 🤣

Thanks for the review. Very thorough and well thought out. Glad you enjoyed it. It looks like Jeremy addressed all of the questions that have come up but one thing I will add is something I appreciated about working with Osprey is they let us retain the rights to the game (which is not the norm). So we can put out a follow-up ourselves (there would be challenges to that so we are discussion what options are available).

@SSkorkowsky

Жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear the rights aren't locked away. It's a fun game. The two of you did a great job.

@Bedrockbrendan

Жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky Thanks! They were very generous on this front. And they pretty much gave us total freedom to design what we wanted which was great

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

That is great, hopefully we'll get to see more Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades someday. I managed to pick up a physical copy recently with not much markup from the PDFs, so I'm a happy camper. Now all I need to do is to learn the system and pitch it to my group.

Nice to see this setting getting some love.

Totally agree with your comments re the load on GMs from the skills - is what gave me pause to run it. And thank you very much for that push to Osprey to release more material! I heard they had decided not to, which is a real shame. Cool game and needs a little support to get it done attention. So here's hoping that Osprey listen. I want to buy more of these beautifully made books.

@SSkorkowsky

Жыл бұрын

It's a bit amazing they released the game to industry praise, but decided to do nothing more. Hopefully they hear enough demand to give us some more.

@richmcgee434

Жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky Osprey's really weird about what gets support and what doesn't. I don't think they "get" roleplaying as well as they do miniatures and wargame rules. The support expectations are quite different between them. OTOH, it might just be sales related. No idea what the figures on any of their RPG stuff are like, or what they regard as a good seller to bet on for further books.

@stephensimpson881

Жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky I wonder if their strategy is to just throw a bunch of hooks into the water and hope that something bites "super-big" and then they'll support it.

@samprastherabbit

Жыл бұрын

@@stephensimpson881 Yeah... Oathmark & Frostgrave by Joe McCullough both did well enough to warrant a lot of support (ok, both skirmish games, I grant you) but my beloved Napoleonic gothic horror Silver Bayonet just has the book and some minis... I think you're definitely on to something as regards their RPGs, which is a pity because they release some great stuff.

The whole talk about Lightness : "You can fly?!" "No, jump good"

You know what I would love as a potential sequel/spin-off of this game? Something with very similar rules and character archetypes, but this time done in the style of Hong Kong action films like Hardboiled or movies like the Matrix or even John Wick rather than Wuxia movies. Still a lot of martial arts centric stuff, but now you also have characters that can dodge bullets, curve their bullets around walls, shoot while jumping Max Payne style, etc. I think that would be a genuine treat to see

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

I swear there is a that kind of a game, you could for example run across the bullets that are shot at you from an automatic weapon and similar stunts, but I cannot for the life of me remember the name. It's fairly old, since I remember reading about it in the early 2000s or even earlier. EDIT: Fairly certain it was _Hong Kong Action Theatre!_ but there might be others. I have no experience with the system, I just read about it in a magazine and thought "that's cool"

@michaelwelker8759

Жыл бұрын

Feng Shui (1st & 2nd edition) is really fun. I’ll have to get this one off the shelf though. Great review.

Great review. Will be buying this. One of my biggest criticisms of Osprey that, while they put out a lot of good games, they tend to put them out and then move on with most of them. I imagine you could emulate more fantastical elements, if you wanted them, just through layering on and reskinning some of the massive list of abilities. Need a hopping vampire for a one-off? I am sure there are abilities in there that could net you one.

Now I really want to hear about Bloody Hands and the whole campaign. I think I'll also be pitching this to my players to see if they'd be interested, what a great review.

This sounds perfect for running the Shaw Brothers homage campaign I've always wanted to run.

@josephmcgoldrick1993

4 ай бұрын

If this let's me run a game like" Kid with the golden arm" sign me up

I’ve got what I think is a simple tie breaker for multiple players: Have as many popsickle sticks as you have players. Mark each stick with a number (1 through 4 for four players). In the event of a tie with multiple players, hold the sticks, numbers hidden, and have players draw sticks. Lowest number goes first among the tied players, second lowest number second, etc. Quickly gets things moving again without tons of rerolls.

7:20 Dude this art is sick Love it so much

@Bedrockbrendan

Жыл бұрын

The art was by Kagan McLeod, and he did an amazing job. He understood the film genre we were interested impeccably well

1:30 The Detective Dee film really throws me off with all the openly supernatural stuff. I'd read the translated-to-English stuff about the character and his historical counterpart, and all the novels by van Gulik well before the movie came out. They don't really feature any fantastic elements that can't be explained by rational means, they're pretty much straight mystery stories. Watching the film is like going to see a Sherlock Holmes movie where Moriarty suddenly starts summoning demons and Watson responds by handing Holmes Excalibur. Or to use an actually-produced example, Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires. It's not a bad concept for a film, but it's such a twist on a character I "knew" already it jars me. Nero Wolfe turning out to be an ex-guerrilla and freedom fighter couldn't be more....wait, that happened in the Stout books. Never mind. :)

@SSkorkowsky

Жыл бұрын

Save for the Fire Beetles, the first film was all normal things posing as supernatural. 2nd and 3rd film, not so much. Loved the first one but the other 2 seemed to have lost their way in favor of special effects.

@richmcgee434

Жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky Huh. I guess I must have missed the first one, the ones I saw were CGI fests, which always leave me cold. The original (and van Gulik's books) have some elements of the supernatural suggested, but it's always unclear if any of it is real and they often debunk things, so the first film sounds pretty faithful the spirit of Cases of Judge Dee. Or Magistrate. "Detective" is kind of an odd translation, but not wholly wrong. Good reads, if you like mysteries. Lot less formulaic than half the stuff on the market today, and some dark enough to give pulp noir a run for its money.

Enjoyed the review. Thanks for giving little games some attention in the ocean of D&D content.

I'd also recommend checking out the 'Jackals' RPG from Osprey if you'd be interested in a Bronze Age fantasy game. It uses a customized & streamlined version of BRP's d100 system (similar to Call Of Cthulhu) with an action point facet and other interesting changes.

Oh man oh man oh man, I LOVE wuxia, and can't believe YOU are reviewing this!! Can't wait to hear your thoughts about this! The greatest youtube surprise this year!

I just found this today and I'm so hyped I'm buying it right now and I watched this video 4 times already back to back. You gotta release some more reviews for this system when they come

Not familiar with game, but the ties with opposed skill rolls, I think fits genres too with your solution. Where two martial artists are in a draw? Think the back and forth fight until finally the draw is broken. Sounds like something fun to narrate.

This is such a fun game! I felt so free to go over the top in the role playing of my character. I can not recommend it enough!

*_Wu-Xia_* ("Martial Arts Chivalry") are cinematic martial arts novels or movies set in a legendary historical period. The characters are heroes and villains with superpowers derived from their mastery of the martial arts.

Thank you so much for reviewing this! I am extremely hyped to listen to how you prepped for the scenarios as I intend to run them as well!

I'm pushing 50, so I particularly love your old-school DnD reviews. Brings it all back! I watch all your vids, though, and I'm never disappointed. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, my good man!

Another great review! Really enjoy these videos!

I got a buddy who'd absolutely flip his shit for this, thanks for the heads up Seth!

I've been looking for something like this since playing Jade Empire in high school - I'm keenly interested, despite the flaws.

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

I *REALLY* should finish that game.

@unfortunatesun

Жыл бұрын

Sheev sez do it

@Maehedrose

Жыл бұрын

'Weapons of the Gods' (and their ot her game, 'Legends of the Wulin) is very heavily inspired by Jade Empire and superbly written. I encourage you to check them out. Also, if you read much, the character of 'Henpecked Hou' was taken from a novel called 'Bridge of Birds' by Barry Hughart; its 'magical China that never was' is brilliant and it is one of my favorite books.

Didn't come here expecting to be sold on the game, but just ordered it. Even without supplements, it sounds like there's plenty to get a good amount of play.

Thanks for the review and the support sheets. I've had it in the pile by the bed for awhile now, and your charts will help get it going.

This one's been sitting on my shelf since May. It's looking good. Thanks for the review and merry Christmas. 🎄🎄🎄

Awww that's sweet, a game designer fan sent you their product because they appreciate your reviews ❤️ I think I'll pick this one up!

I'm really a fan of this kind of style, and it looks pretty cool. Traveller was great so I might end up picking this up too

Best review I've seen about this game. Hope Osprey has the stock for the increased sells they are about to get.

They dare to challenge Bloody Hands? They are courting death! 😁

@oz_jones

Жыл бұрын

Ho ho ho, who dares to approach me?

This was a great review and Seth I always am a fan of your insights.

Great informative review and gotta say too, yo King Hu films and One Armed Swordsman rec is legit. Classic films. Will be looking into this RPG soon.

Alright, got me interested. I might need to buy the hardcover, I like owning physical books. It's right up my alley too.

Thank you so much for this comprehensive review! I've been looking for a game like this forever and this is exactly what I want! Just ordered and subscribed!

Nice review! I set up this game in Foundry VTT months ago - OK now I had better actually go run it!!!

You describing how character creation is more focused in skill investment and the d10 dice pools made me think "Man this sounds a lot like Storyteller." and this was all but confirmed when I saw the character sheet, which got me really excited because I love how versatile of a system Storyteller is.

@BiggestGal

Жыл бұрын

Also I just wanna say I think a better solution to the opposed rolls thing would be to simply see who has more successes.

In dice pool games, I generally rule that the person with the larger dice pool wins, being the naturally superior character, or the one whos environmental factors line up more favorably.

@SteveSwannJr

Жыл бұрын

Ubiquity is a dice pool that allows the players to choose between the average or roll.

Another system like this is Legends of the Wulin.....a mechanic in the system that I find particularly attractive is that, if you get in good with the right factions, you can learn techniques that make your unarmed attacks also count as attacks with certain weapons, bonuses and all. Take the one that lets your unarmed attacks count also count as sabers, you can straight up Nanto Seiken any fool who opposes you.

@Maehedrose

Жыл бұрын

I love their 'Loresheets' mechanic and adored the writing in their other game 'Weapons of the Gods'.

I love the way this game sounds Edit: i hope the publishers release the npc/weapons with companion cards

I really love wuxia novels and movies and have watch/read them for years. I am definitely going to check this out now. Thanks for the review!

@ms9ball

Жыл бұрын

What’s a good Wuxia novel you might recommend for a newbie?

@Aurilion44

Жыл бұрын

@@ms9ball "Once Upon a Time, There was a Sword Spirit Mountain" is pretty good, hilarious and had an anime. "Mo Dao Zu Shi" is awesome and "I Shall Seal the Heavens" is also quite good, but incredibly long. There is also "Legend of the Sun Knight". Not exactly wuxia, but has many elements and the comedic and epic feel of them while being downright hilarious, depressing and awesome at the same time

@piercetibma4321

Жыл бұрын

@@ms9ball I am personally fond of the A Thousand Li by Tao Wong. Its in the cultivation subset of Wuxia but is easily approachable. If you're searching for something more historical then A Hero Born by Jin Yong is a good start, though the first novel can at points be slow as it is setting up the primary hero and his back story. If you want something very easily approachable with its fantastic elements I would recommend Will Wight's Cradle series may more be your flavor, though it is more tangentially related to Chinese Martial Arts.

Can not wait to get this game and start running it. Great and informative review.

Thank you for the cheat sheet Seth.

Oh cool, wasn't really expecting another Seth vid before end of year. And a review for a game I've been curious about too.

Sounds like a brilliant game. Will look out for it. Have a great and prosperous New Year, Seth.

Nice, thanks 😀 and happy holiday 😄.

Thanks, Seth. This video was what finally convinced me to buy this book.

That is one hell of a bold new look for Jack the NPC! Fantastic stuff, Seth - you've convinced me to snag a copy of this.

Nicely done, as always. This sounds very cool.

I just discovered your channel and you've already talked me into buying a pdf lol

@SSkorkowsky

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy the game as much as we have.

Sounds like fun. I went on a Shaw Brothers binge last year and saw Throne of Blood a couple months ago. I have some wicked ideas.

Where has this game been my whole life?! I just did a short campaign but used D&D 5E because it was what my players were familiar with. This sounds amazing! TY for the video.

@loke6664

Жыл бұрын

There are many really cool small games around and some pretty large ones too. I mean, D&D is great and all (not as good as AD&D but that might just be me) but there are so many really good RPGs out there. A while ago I ran a Shadowrun campaign which is a weird fantasy cyberpunk game. After that I ran Infinity's edge which is a small indie game based on LITRPG (think "Ready player one") and now I am about to start 2 campaigns, one 1st edition AD&D (for players used to 5th ed and Pathfinder) and one with Delta Green which also is really fun, think of something close to "True detective" with an extra dash of Lovecraft. We also played Viral for Call of Cthulhu the weekend before the holidays as a one shot. However, it is a bit tough for the constant gamemaster to constantly learn new rules so my tip would be to Switch around, play a few different genres with different people running them. Only one person needs to learn all the rules, the game master. The players will pick them up as you go if they like the game. Honestly, always playing the same fantasy game gets a bit boring after a while. I mean, you have so many genres, like Western, space opera, cyberpunk, martial arts, historical games, horror, pulp and many more. Having a long running campaign is of course always fun but I tend to appreciate it more if I have some breaks with other games at times. :D

Hero might be in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. (Edit) Also your combat description suggestions sound a lot like how I already narrate. This might be a game I need.

Sold. I love wuxia games and this sounds fantastic. I loved the examples you showed us of the abilities, that really did a lot to make up my mind. My brother gave me a gift card for Amazon for Christmas and now it is gone.

I've been tempted by this a few times, but never picked it up. However, after that review I will definitely be getting it. Thanks for another great video.

I am so glad to see this review. I first heard of the game when you mentioned it in an earlier video and was immediately intrigued enough to buy it then. It definitely gets the flavor right but I've been waiting to see what you thought of how it played.

THIS IS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!!!! my favorite rpg KZreadr reviewing my favorite rpg 💜💜

Looks awesome! Thanks!

This is so cool, Im totally going to try this

Would LOVE to see some kind of gameplay episode of this.

Really glad to see this review. This game has been criminally slept on, deserving way more recognition. Hopefully you can help shed some light on it.

By the way, I love the extra touch of various film reel defects that pop up during Jack's segments. Really sells the Saturday Kung Fu Theater aspect. Now I have an itch for some old Shaw Brothers films.

TOPIC REQUEST: Hallo Seth (and Jack). For those of your subscribers that want to explore writing game scenarios, What five published adventures might you recommend as examples of excellent writing with regard to imaginative plot, player involvement, good use of the game mechanics, and possible replayability? What makes these examples shine? What are the pitfalls of beginners writing adventure scenarios? I think a video on this question might be very popular. Traveller seems the most adaptable to almost any other genre. Does this sound interesting to you? or Jack?

Thank you for sharing this super cool vid. I love the NPC character in you reviews and, even though the outfit changed, same fun personality and accent. ✨

This looks awesome. I can imagine playing thru every shaw brothers film

Suggestion for faster character gen: make a deck of cards of the abilities you can have at first level and randomly deal each player five cards during character gen. They can choose from those.

@shadowtheory7500

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!

When Jack starts saying how the gaming group felt when Seth pushed the game I had to wonder whether Jack is speaking for Seth's real life group or Seth is having some multiple personalities disorder going on.

Thanks for bringing this game to my attention...this sounds amazing!

That sounds amazing!

For some reason, I expected Jack at any moment to try to take a sip from the sword in his hand.

Says alot about the quality of a game if your biggest criticism of it is "We need more of this game right #%?& now, plz." But yeah, Chinese Mythology is jamed full of spirits, monsters, and magic ( See Big Trouble in Little China, Forbidden Kingdom, Etc/ yes I know those are American productions but still) A adventure where players have to fight a Jiang Shi Vampire or a bunch of E Gul Ghost Monks from an dishonored abandoned temple or defend a fishing village from a Kaiming Shou (Hydra like monster) or including a magic based class system would be cool

What an awesome idea for a game. Sounds amazing.

I can imagine running this Savage Worlds-style, where combats consist mostly of weak mooks that can only take one wound each, backed up by one higher-level boss. I'd have the boss spend the first couple of rounds not fighting, just taunting players or yelling at his minions or something. "Get them, you fools!"

Sounds awesome! Thank you

Thanks a lot, Seth! I'd never heard of this before but it really seems intriguing. One of the great laments in my life is that there are so many games out there that I'll almost certainly never get a chance to try. I play an excellent AD&D 1e game on Saturdays and a great Basic Fantasy RPG game on Weds. A year after getting the CoC books I've still not had a chance to join a campaign recently started by one of the guys from our AD&D game. Back in the 90s I played Vampire the Masquerade and enjoyed it but there's just no time. Plus my brother & I have been planning a new AD&D 2e game for at least the last year but there never seems to be time to get it started. Still, I'll probably buy the book and at last mine it for cool ideas.

Another great review. I believe there are other Wuxia game adventures you could adapt to this game.

I am not familiar with the Wuxia genre at all. But I am very familiar with the Shounen Battle genre. This sounds like something absolutely perfect for simulating Shounen Battle. Complete with power levels, stand offs between attacks, dedicated time for monologue-ing. It's great. I could see this easily getting adapted into some sort of anime RPG. Just add in some power of friendship mechanics, curse marks, how to roll for beam struggles, maybe even stats for mechs, and it would be perfect!

@andrewlance3898

Жыл бұрын

There is definitely a great deal of overlap between those genres. I could see this doing an anime-themed expansion like how Mutants & Masterminds came out with Mecha & Manga.

@tomryan3768

Жыл бұрын

Wuxia is well worth investigating, some amazing stuff out of Hong Kong, and China.

Actually another good couple of examples of this style is Enter the Badlands-The Man With the Iron Fists(1&2)-The Street Fighter Game's and Ninja Destruction along with Ninja 1&2.

Found this video because a GM is going to run this game and I'm interested in joining because I absolutely love Wuxia genre. Very helpful video!

Oh my god, this game looks awesome! I will definitely pick this up

The artwork in the book looks great!

Man With The Iron Fists is the ultimate Wushu movie. And great video Seth - it did alot of highlight what sounds like a great game in a genre that is not bloated with too many games

This sounds so cool and wasn't on my radar at all. Probably not eligible to contend in my Joshua/Riggs Lethal Weapon finale simulation, but definitely want to try this out. Totally different genre and culture, but I think this might be a good way to adapt something like Fist of the North Star as a TTRPG setting. A lot of the "boss" chapters seem to follow a similar pre-game analysis / boast flow turn structure. I'm betting Todd was the Black Feather to Silent Feather player. Something about your voice went in a Todd direction when you described it so I'm calling that tell.

We run a lgs and sell Osprey games. This will definitely be added to our rpg collection.

Now I need to play this game. I wonder if my gamemaster will let my character have a young son... in a weapon-filled stroller.

love Jack's outfit here XD

Thanks for the review. I ended up purchasing a physical copy after watching it (sadly a physical copy was out of stock on Osprey's web site). I do think it was a missed opportunity not having the option to print on demand on Drive Thru RPG. Also made me think of my old Mutants and Masterminds character White Dragon. No he didn't have super powers he was just skilled at martial arts *runs across surface of water*.

The player's backstory writing the Villain's abilities is a great idea for a ton of games systems.

While I am not a big fan of Wuxia I will have to try this out some day. It sounds like a blast. I'm a combat junky of a gm XD

Hey hope you and your family had a great Christmas, and have a happy new year!

A wonderful belated Christmas present of a review. It's always a good day that starts with "Hello internet" and even more so when it's a martial arts game up for review. I'm a huge wuxia fan and I'm always looking forward to adding more to my collection. This system sounds fantastic, something that actually emulates the wuxia genre rather than just slapping the D&D/D20 rules onto a wuxia setting. And you know it's a solid system when one of the criticisms is "we need more of this game". I'm definitely going to get a copy to put next to my Weapons of the Gods and Ogre Gate books. If you'd ever like to check out an older RPG that tried to emulate basically all of Chinese cinema, I'd recommend Feng Shui. While I prefer 1st editions character creation, both editions blend kung fu and gun fu in interesting ways, and options exist to incorporate more pulp style elements. Might make for a fun read.