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Offline lordoracle

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Yokai (Jade Court Idea)
« on: February 01, 2014, 05:22:06 PM »
Since there is precious little information about the Jade Court, I had an idea on how to utilize them in a campaign. Rather than have the JC directly involve themselves, use various creatures from Asian Mythologies as their agents.

I was wondering if anyone has pursued this line of thought and what creatures might have been statted?
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Re: Yokai (Jade Court Idea)
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2014, 03:27:01 AM »
There are a whole bunch of different takes on the Jade Court on the wiki.

http://dfrpg-resources.wikispaces.com/Jade+Court+Vampire+%28Type+A%29
http://dfrpg-resources.wikispaces.com/Jade+Court+Vampire+%28Type+B%29
http://dfrpg-resources.wikispaces.com/Jade+Court+Vampire+%28Type+C%29
http://dfrpg-resources.wikispaces.com/Jade+Court+Vampire+%28Type+D%29

The fourth link there resembles the japanese nukekubi. Dunno about the others.

There are also some Jiang-Shi stats here, some Tengu stats here, some Tanuki stats  here and some Kappa stats here.

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Re: Yokai (Jade Court Idea)
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2014, 04:30:16 PM »
Thanks. This should be a big help.
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Re: Yokai (Jade Court Idea)
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2014, 04:11:39 AM »
I am playing in a game set in Montreal, and the Jade Court there is based on Pennanggalan and/or Manananggal myths (option D on the list above). It works very well.