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Original Comic Concepts, Writing and Art : Tony Wong
Authors : R. Sean Borgstrom (The Great Game), Brad Elliott & Jye Nicolson (Million Style Manual), Derek Fetters
(Thrashing Minister, Thrashing Minister God-Weapons), Creative Fans [See Individual Entries] (New Forging of
God-Weapons)
Additional Contributions and Playtesting : Rebecca Borgstrom (Thrashing Minister), Benjamin Leong, Lap Nguyen
(Million-Style Manual)
Artists : Tony Wong, Trent Thynes
Consultant (Cultural) : 上校方潤強 (海軍陸戰隊學校 ) & Hsin Hong-Chen
Consultant (Production) : Aron Anderson
Developer : Brad Elliott
Editor : Matt Knight
Interior Design: Andis Blija
Layout and Typesetting: Marius Hamilton (Cover), Benjamin Leong (Internal layout)
Maps : Monica Valdovinos
Weapons of the Gods Rules Design : Rebecca Borgstrom
Playtesters : (US) Rebecca Borgstrom, Brad Elliott, Mark Hughes, Derek Fetters, Christopher Maikisch, Patrick
Carrick, Bill Morse, Donald Ide, Brian Anderson; (Europe) Arik ten Broeke, Jeroen Wilhelmus, Ben McKay, Robin de
Graaf; (Australia) Jye Nicolson, Benjamin Leong, Lap Nguyen, Rebecca Orth and Louise Zanon.
Special Thanks To : Tony Wong, for creating the comics; the estimable Colonel Fang Ren Qiang (CMCS); Maryann
Snyder, and their families for their invaluable support.
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The Jade Book
Thrashing Minister
City of the Poison Garden
The Crimson Book
New God-Weapons for your games
The Gold Book
The Great Game of Shen Zhou:
Combat and politics fought on a grand scale
The White Book
The Million-Style Manual:
Rules for creating new Kung Fu styles for your Game
New Martial Arts:
Common, Uncommon, Rare and Formless Techniques
The Silver Book
Notes for the Sage:
Applying Great Game rules to Thrashing Minister City
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Table of Contents
The New Forging: New God-Weapons
Found in Thrashing Minister . . . . . . . . . . .63
Skull Divider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Wind-Rending Sword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Fox-Spirit Blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Predictionist Blade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Cloud Commander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Playing in Thrashing Minister. . . . . . . . . . . .7
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Taking Your Place in Thrashing Minister City. . . .8
Recommended Loresheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
City of the Poison Garden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Thrashing Minister District by District. . . . . . . 17
Thrashing Minister City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
West and East Willow Districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Walled City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Phoenix Nest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Peaceful Residence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Jade Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Civic Harmony and Applied Righteousness. . . . 29
Green District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Wolf District. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Hidden City: Royal Palaces of the King. .32
The Royal Palaces:Location by Location. . . . . . 32
Royal Palace Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Hidden City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Dealing with Government (in Yang). . . . . . . . . . 36
Celestial Palace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Eunuchs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Eunuchs of Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The Concubines of Yue Guan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Secret Weapons of Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Campaigns in Thrashing Minister. . . . . . . . . . .45
Plotters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
City Relationship Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Segue: From a City Campaign to a Court
Campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Court Campaign and Relationship Chart . . . . . 49
Plotters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Court Relationship Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Signature Characters of Thrashing Minister. .52
The Cloud-Script Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
The Great Game: How to Win Battles and
Influence Kingdoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Introduction to the Great Game. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
How to Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Necessary Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Fictional World vs. A War Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using the Great Game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Battlefields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Battlefields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Elephant Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Exhaustion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Fighting Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Controlling Places and Regions with Stones . . . 83
Energies and Qualities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Rules for Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Combat Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Agendas and Prestige. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Taking Action!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Movement and Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Stones “In Motion”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Attack! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Boost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Develop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Recover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Special Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Tactical Opposition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Free Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Approaches to Battle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Skill Rolls, Style Rolls, and the River. . . . . . . . . 98
Secrets and Lies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Fighting Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Commander Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Force Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Army Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Influence Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Will Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Treasure Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
The New Forging: New God-Weapons
Created by Fans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Dragon Saber Guan Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Unyielding Saint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Flayer of Soul and Sinew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Jubilate Wing and Tether. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lost Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Pacifying Jade Net. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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Necessary Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
The Ideological Battlefield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
The Rules for Necessary Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Agenda Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Battle Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
People and Treasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Story and the Great Game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Challenges: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
The Five Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Mini-Guide to Purchaseable Powers
in the Great Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120
Special Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Chaos Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Order Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Passion Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Sorcery Stones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Battlefield Summary Sheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Personal Battlefields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Local Battlefields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
State Battlefields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Territory Battlefields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Tips and Tricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Nature’s Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Peculiar Battlefields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Starting Characters Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Qualities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Darkened Flying Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Dragon Palms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Eight Diagram Fist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Force of the Wind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Sublime Doctrine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Wild Horse Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Yin Ice Sword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Rare Kung Fu Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176
Armor of the Gods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Death Fist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Dugu Four Ultimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Righteous Thieving Rebel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Formless Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
Ghost Finger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Lion’s Roar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Toad Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Building the Battlefield:
Thrashing Minister City . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Battlefield Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Battlefield: Thrashing Minister City. . . . . . . . . 187
Battlefield: The Hidden City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Actors and Commanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
General Technique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Thrashing Minister City’s Local Powers. . . . . . 193
Example Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Example Abbreviated Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Thrashing Minister City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Appendix A:
Important Clarifications and Errata. . . . 200
The World is Martial Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . 133
The Creation of Kung Fu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Learning Kung Fu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Martial Arts Creation Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Maneuver Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Maneuver Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Kung Fu Styles Are Loresheets:. . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Strategy – Kung Fu Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Common Kung Fu Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
Flawless Archery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Forge-Hammer Fist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Green Mantis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Heaven-Earth Sun & Moon Saber . . . . . . . . . . 158
Ling Zhi Two-Finger Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Shatterfoot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Shooting Stars Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
White Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Uncommon Kung Fu Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Blue Flame Spear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Appendix B:
Fast Organization Building . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
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