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BTW -- if anyone has any good references for Asian monsters, ghosts, dragons, and assorted creatures, please let me know. If you have anything you can send me, that's even better!

Re: Re: Re: ? Oh no, 2003. I am a master of time and space after all.

E-book AFAIK.

Try this: http://www.devermore.net/surbrook/dbzhero/dbzhero.html

I've done so. Thanks.

All the material I could find on the Chiang-Shih (also known as a ch'ng-shih, jiang-shi, kiang-shi, kyonshi, kyuketsuki, or a qing-shi) mentioned nothing about them or any other vampires hopping. At least one reference said the HK film industry started the whole "hopping vampires" look. So, based on what I could find, in various references, I wrote up the Chiang-Shih the best I could.

As I said, I'll be including write-ups for anything and everything I can get a decent amount of information on. Nothing is too big or too small to be included in the book.

Yes it is the Jiangshi, no, it doesn't hop. And I give several options for the vampire. Oh yes indeedy. And man, some of this stuff is very, very, cracked...

Re: ? Jan-Feb 2003.

No, there is no tengu in NINJA HERO.

The eat bad dreams. I'm still working on this one. Youma/Yoma is a generic name for all sorts of Japanese creatures from "yomi," the netherworld. So... in effect... yes. That's a nue. There are around 3300 words on the kioh-lung alone.

Re: Kuei No, I haven't seen the The Super Mage Bestiary (maybe I should???). But I'll look up these other two titles. Thanks!

For a while I was running an anime-inspired ghost-hunters game (and hope to restart it real-soon-now![tm]). Think HELLBOY mixed with HELLSING. Anyway, the cast was a mixed bag of characters, including Lin Foo Wong the ghost, Mack Williams ex-NYPD, Yuki Hari the ghost-hunter, and Alexander Maxamillian the sorcerer. Some lines I noted down as amusing: Lin Foo Wong: "I'm glad I'm not a superstitious ghost." Yuki's player, responding to unwanted comments: "Shut up! I'm being cinematic!" Uncredited (but about a villian I think...): "Special, as in 'mommy thinks I'm special'." Agent Thompson [indicating blue-skinned and white-haired Lin]: "Who is she?" Mack: "One of our agents." Agent Thompson: "*What* is she?" Belinda: "And acrobat from Peking." Mack also made me break up by telling a talking corpse: "You're dead! What do you need treasure for?" Which just so happened to be virtually Hellboy's same exact line in the HELLBOY story I swiped the plot from. He got +1 EXP for that.

NINJA HERO has a lot of suggestions for such a character. Also look at the sample wuxia characters -- specifically the hero.

Re: two quotes... The Warner Bros version: "You're not a Labrador Retreiver." "Yes I am. Show me a Labrador and I'll retreive it." "There's no such thing!" "Oh yeah? Have you ever seen a Labrador?" "Uhm... no." "Than shaddup."

It works for me. It's like calling your character "ronin," "paladin," or some such. Of course, "wuxia" is more of a calling than anything, so you might want to amend it with something else to set yourself apart from all the other wuxia out there (example -- Marvel's "Silver Samurai" or "Black Knight").

Donald Brook -- a brick with Growth and Brawling. His name many not make any sense until you switch over to his nickname. "Donny." [if you still don't get it... look up "donnybrook"] Bandit, Racoon of the Future! -- pulp-era animal sidekick. Only heard about him, but have loved the name ever since. A.P.E. (Algernon Patrick Emerson) -- because every campaign needs an intellagent gorilla. Johnathan Morganthall Nightshade -- one of my longest (and favorite) SIDs ever.

Depends on what you mean by "demon." I mean, I'm putting in everything I can find a decent amount of information on. So far, I have (demon wise), the Chiang-Shih, the Pishacha, the Rakshasa, the Oni, and some other strange creatures (still trying to pin down the Kuei...). The book will also have dragons, serpents, ghosts, ghouls, vampires, 100-foot-long centipedes, foo lions, 700-mile-long catfish, flesh-eating horses, fish-elephants, flying heads, shape-shifting sorcerers, and beastmen. Oh, and one enormous [deleted by sysop]. Oops... Guess you'll have to read the book to find that one.

I don't own any of the new SF products HERO has been putting out besides STAR HERO. However, I've been developing something that might go into Digital Hero, so I was wondering: what format is used to describe an alien race as a whole (as opposed to a single character) in something the TERRAN EMPIRE? Is it a simple variant of the creature layout seen in the HERO SYSTEM BESTIARY?

Re: Re: How Big is Big? Maaaybe. I am working on a pan-Asian bestiary, after all.

Well... Hmm... I just started a new job, so I'm not sure when... but this weekend is looking real good.

Yeah, someone did it a few posts earlier. And yes, Kayli the Destroyer was my "DBZ on a budget" entry for NINJA HERO.

Yes, I know, but I was asking for comparative purposes.

Out of curiosity... how much Growth would you need to create a fish 700 miles long? And on a related note -- how much STR to lift/support the central island of Japan (Honshu, right?)?

I was thinking of adding a color element.