Samurai RPG

How to play Samurai RPG

Samurai RPG is eight duels, each settled by a single exchange. During the standoff your opponent shows a tell — the angle of the blade — and how often that tell is honest depends on who you are facing. Choose high, middle or low before the signal: high beats low, low beats middle, middle beats high.

When the signal flashes, strike. Move early and you flinch, which loses outright; move too late and the cut lands first. If you both chose the same stance the faster hand wins, and later opponents draw very fast indeed.

Road bandits tell the truth almost always. Master Genzo bluffs more than half the time. After each victory you take one of two techniques — a wider striking window, an earlier tell, an extra wound, or a chance to see through a bluff. Three wounds end the road.

Objective

Read the tell, pick the stance that beats it and strike on the signal, eight opponents in a row.

Features

• One exchange per duel: stance, signal, reaction
• Tells that grow less honest as opponents get better
• A stance triangle where high beats low, low beats middle, middle beats high
• Tied stances decided by reaction time against the opponent’s draw
• Four techniques drafted two at a time between duels

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