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Blood of the Yakuza

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Blood of the Yakuza
Cover of Blood of the Yakuza
CodeOA4
Rules required1st ed. AD&D
Campaign settingGeneric
AuthorsDavid Cook
First published1987
Linked modules
OA1 OA2 OA3 OA4 OA5 OA6 OA7

Blood of the Yakuza is a module in the Oriental Adventures subset of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms product line.

Plot summary

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Blood of the Yakuza is an Oriental Adventures campaign setting and adventure scenario set on the island of Wa and port of Nakamura.[1] The module contains details Yakuza gangs and the important families and temples, as well as the major non-player characters of the city.[2]

As the module was based on the Kara Tur boxed set, its information is older than the information about Wa found in such product lines as the Spelljammer series.

Publication history

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Blood of the Yakuza was written by David "Zeb" Cook, with a cover by Jim Holloway, and was published by TSR in 1987 as a forty-eight page book and a sixteen-page book, with a large color map and an outer folder.[1]

Reception

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Jim Bambra reviewed Blood of the Yakuza for Dragon magazine No. 134.[2] Bambra felt that the island of Wa "draws its inspiration from the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan and presents a more centralized and less war-torn period".[2] He concluded that Blood of the Yakuza is another excellent addition to the Oriental line.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 109. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
  2. ^ a b c d Bambra, Jim (June 1988). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (#134). Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR: 77.
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"Blood of the Yakuza". RPGnow. 2006-08-11.