The Wu Jen

An unofficial  3rd edition Oriental Adventures D&D web site

Tools

• Master Lists An Excel spreadsheet including almost everything official from the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, Sword & Fist, Defenders of the Faith, Tome & Blood, Song & Silence, Psionics Handbook, Relics and Rituals, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Magic of Faerun, Manual of the Planes, Hollowfaust, The Wise and the Wicked, Rokugan, and Oriental Adventures and appropriate Web Enhancements, WotC modules, and 3rd-party d20 sources.  ~160 kb.  Last update January 16, 2002

Spells: 1500 spells including spell name, school, descriptor, class and level, element, school (clan), domain, source book and page number.

Feats: Almost 500 feats with feat name, type, and source book and page (fighter feats are also marked).

Armor: Almost 40 types including proficiency, armor name, cost, AC, dexterity, penalty, failure, speed, weight, source book.

Weapons: Over 220 weapons and their ammunition, listing proficiency, size, weapon name, cost, damage, critical, range, weight, and source book.

Psionic powers: 300 powers (600 with converted spell lists) with power name, discipline, type, class and level, source book, and page.

Items: Over 325 mundane and special items including type, name, cost, weight (normal, small), capacity, source book, and page.

Skills: 83 skills listed by ability, trained/untrained, armor penalty, psionic, class, source and page.

Other: 165 prestige classes, 26 core classes, 80 domains.

Features: Each list can be filtered and sorted.  For example, you can view all fourth level cleric spells in the Player's Handbook, or all ranger cross-class skills with an armor penalty that are trained only.

• Encounter 3.0  An Excel spreadsheet containing all the monsters in the Monster Manual, Creature Collection I and II, Monsters of Faerun, Oriental Adventures, Psionics Handbook, Manual of the Planes, Forgotten Realms Campaign Scourcebook, Magic of Faerun, Rokugan, Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts, Hollowfaust, and WotC modules.  Each creature is listed with its CR, type, subtype, alignment, source book and page number, and common habitat(s).  Over 1300 enteries.  Includes directions for making wandering monster tables in minutes.  Example encounter table (cut and pasted into HTML) ~ 830 kb.  Last update January 16, 2002: Added monsters from Hollowfaust

• Class Construction Engine 1.1a  A PDF document that gives a numerical weight each class ability to help you balance them.  Includes rules for making classes and prestige classes balanced with official ones.  Please note that this is a product of ShadowCraft Studios (this link is defunct).  An excellent resource.  ~100 kb.

• MinMaxer 1.1  An Excel spreadsheet that calculates average hits per round and average damage dealt, including criticals.  For the munchkin in all of us.  ~12 kb.

• Kokubura Campaign Setting The island-nation of Kokubura, ruled less by the human on the Tourmaline throne than monster kingdoms.  Includes maps and place descriptions.

• Maps The entire island chain, Korobubaru Village, Temple Makura, and Yurei Inn.  New

• History The legend of Kokubura.

• Kokuburan Culture Overview of social class templates, laws, language, money, magic, classes and prestige classes allowed in Kokubura.

• Kokuburan Calendar Twelve months and what's in them.

• The Makuran Dragon I: The Dragon Campaign Characters from the epic of the Makuran Dragon and campaign journal excerpts.

• The Makuran Dragon II: The Rise of Makura Campaign Characters and journal of our ongoing campaign.  Updated

• Feats & Skills Calligraphy Master, Meditate, and more... new feats for the earning.  Also includes a few new uses and revisions for existing skills.

• House Rules Flank with a crossbow, experience awards for skill-based adventures, et cetera.

• Encounter Tables d00 encounter tables for various areas of the island Makura.

• NPCs Including Chamyoka, the telepahic dark naga; Shei, a shugenja/elemental savant; and Kwanshi, an asp naga skilled the martial arts. Updated

• Magic Items A plethora of magical items, many made specifically for the Asian campaign.  A sample: Nebuta of Good Fortune (giant paper lanterns granting luck to whole communities), Fuku-mamé (magical beans that banish outsiders, inspired by Japan's Setsubun holiday),  Kotsu-bako of New Life (box for cremation remains that animates a very robust skeleton).

• Martial Arts Budouka in the island nation of Kokubura.

• New Spells Snake arms, safe journey, bolts of air, thieving saru, and sun dog... a compilation of these and other original spells for an Asian or Occidental campaign.

Prestige classes

Creation of these prestige classes was greatly aided by the Class Construction Engine by Shadowcraft Studios (whose link is defunct).

• Ascetic  Spirit at the expense of bodily vigor, understanding at the price of owning material goods: these are the trade-offs made by the ascetic, who renounces all worldly things and strengthens his body with but his mind.

• Bamboo Warrior Spirit folk devoted to the defense of the sasa grove to which their clan's life-force is tied, this noble warrior provides every reason against interfering with the bamboo spirit folk's affairs.

• Chaer' Run Elite Warrior Known among the other tribes for a training regime in which they pound themselves with hammers, these korobokuru are immune to injury, pain, stunning, fear, the elements, and maybe even death and thinking.

• Disciple of the Griffon Claw Elven or half-elven monks initiated into the order after slaying their namesake with their bare hands, the Disciples are rumored not to have mere fists but talons, so deadly are their strikes in combat.  By Vladimir of the Wizards.Com Boards, with exclusive artwork by Vekthor.

• Eagle Spirit Warrior Oft at odds with the tribal shaman, eagle spirit warriors nevertheless embody a mystical spiritualism themselves, enabling them to take the form of a swift and deadly raptor.

• Foe Hunter So deadly are foe hunters to their favored enemies that their enemies must surely have foe hunters as favored enemies... got that?

• Hidden Beast A sudden growl made him spin - in the place where the wizard had fallen stood an awesome beast, eyes red and glowing... A prestige class for alchemists.

• Inja ("Hermit") Mystic vagabonds able to unlock the powers of the arcane and divine, an inja is never one to be surprised.  A prestige class for the wandering spellcaster or psionic.

• Jaguar Warrior Fleet of foot and brave in being, the jaguar warrior may stalk his prey unseen, pounce in a devastating attack, and stride away in the form of a great cat.

• Makuran Fire Walker Known even in foreign lands for treading across glowing coals without injury, Fire Walkers express devotion to the power of volcanic Mt. Kura, and are able to summon its hellish fires.

• Metabolist Capable of extreme feats of physical brawn, the metabolist manifests strength not only as a physical attribute but also a mental one.

• Mukei ("Incorporeal") Mod smirked.  This piece of work was going to pay with her life. His blade swung, sliced through - nothing... A mukei is a warrior so dedicated to one weapon she instills her soul into it.

• Origami Master (Origami no Tensai) The samurai's haughty paper oni was clearly better than the simple imitation she had folded -- yet it was the legend of her victory in the competition that lasted.

• Quarreler The archers laughed.  A crossbow-wielder in an archery contest?!  And they were right -- she failed to hit the bulls eye.  Instead, she simply took out every arrow headed toward it.

• Shinkage (New Shadow) Ninja of Shou Ken Cloisters trained not only in body but mind, the shinkage embody their sect's philosophy in blinding flashes of movement and speed.

• Shinsei (The Divine) Holy warrior of Shou Ken Cloisters, the shinsei are terrifying not only in flesh, but also in mind.

• Sumotori Embellished with flesh and muscle able to push mountains, will that bends only when his body breaks, and the furry of "48 hands," the practitioners of sumo have a might bespoken of even in legend.  By drakin769 of the Wizards message boards.

• Wild Blade Ronin (Mikai no Ronin) The assailant sat up, shaking from his head the knockout Ryochiro had just given him. He ordered the man a bowl of soup.  They ate in silence...  A prestige class for the masterless, uncivilized warrior who carves a place for himself in a society obsessed with decorum and station.

Conversions

I could not wait for 3rd edition OA to come out, and so did a lot of conversion work for my own homebrew Asian campaign.  Will Ehgoetz also contributed extensively in churning out 3e versions of monsters. 

• Classes, monsters, races, rules, and spells These have been outdated with the release of 3e OA.

• OA6 Ronin Challenge A conversion for this Oriental Adventures module available as a pdf from Wizard's Classic Downloads page.  In progress

• Carp, Giant Known as much for bringing good fortune and wealth as their wrath vented on brave hunters, these creatures command respect.  Converted by Will Ehgoetz.

• Chu-u A ghost with arms that can reach around the world, a chu-u is not a  spirit to offend. A conversion expanded beyond the notes in 3e OA. By Will Ehgoetz.

• Con-tinh The soul of a woman slain before her time, the con-tinh may yet kill. A conversion expanded beyond the notes in 3e OA. By Will Ehgoetz.

• Stone Spirit Kami that possess a statue, they hunger after gem and coin.  A conversion expanded beyond the notes in 3e OA.  By Will Ehgoetz.

Et cetera

• Morrow Winspir Blind sorceress.

• Scarred Lands Campaign: Characters & Journal Expose' of our dour characters and their travels in the forsaken land of Ghelspad.

• Sheets, 3e!  A character sheet and a new spell description sheet in MS Word format..
  

• Star Wars RPG For those of us who like to fire blasters.  Includes a new weapon.

Legalities:

Ukiyo-e (wood-block prints) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi and his "school" were produced from 1810 to 1910.

Conversions are from the Oriental Adventures (1985) source book by Gary Gygax.  Conversions from earlier versions to 3rd edition D&D are permitted by Wizards of the Coast, the owners of the D&D trademark.  Original work is provided under the OGL (Open Gaming License).

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