Any thoughts on hacking Robin Laws’ Feng Shui?

12 thoughts on “Any thoughts on hacking Robin Laws’ Feng Shui?”

1. I’ve never played Feng Shui, I’m not clear on the specifics of what makes it tick. Its like an action movie game, right? I’ve been writing some material for action movie/action dramas in the vein of 24, Bones, Burn Notice, and similar — aimed specifically at adapting d20 Modern the way Dungeon World adapted D&D.

   I don’t know that that helps at all! Like I said, I’m not clear on Feng Shui, exactly.

2. See the Shadowfist hack. Shadowfist is the CCG using the same back story as Feng Shui.

3. Alfred Rudzki Feng Shui is definitely an action movie game. It specifically tries to capture the feel of Hong Kong action and Wuxia. More melodrama than drama, if you know what I mean.

   Thanks Jim Sensenbrenner! I knew I had seen one out there! I envisioned some different basic moves and agenda/principles, but that’s a fantastic start. Much appreciated.

4. Jared Hunt, if you make any mods or updates to this, I’d love to see it. I know I had some ideas after I first read it, but they escape me now.

5. i seem to remember a really complicated initiative mechanic

6. Adam McConnaughey yeah, as much as I love the Feng Shui setting and style, I’m not a fan of the mechanical side of the game. The reason I’m looking to AW is to capture that same Hong Kong action look and feel with a ruleset that stays out of the way as much as possible.

7. oh, i should have noted which community this was in; i thought you were trying to make a postapocalyptic game by hacking feng shui.

8. Jim Sensenbrenner after a fairly thorough read-through of Shadowfist I figure it’s about 90% of what I was hoping for. The debate now is whether it’s worth putting in all the hours it would take to get that last 10%…

9. Hey, that’s my Shadowfist PbtA hack you’re talking about. I have more material for its second draft that I need to get into presentable form. What’s the other 10% that you’re looking for in a Feng Shui game?

10. Robert MacNinch nice work! The 10% is really just stylistic differences like how you chose to handle harm via conditions instead of numbers.

    In the end I decided to use Brad Murray’s Hollowpoint instead of PbtA as it was a better fit with the tone I was going for.

    I’d definitely check out a second draft when you put it together.

11. Jared Hunt, hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later.

    I picked up Hollowpoint recently and I’m hoping to play it sometime soon myself!

12. Robert MacNinch, I would be interested in seeing the second draft as well.

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