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This new Tianxia Bundle offer presents Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade, the Fate Core campaign setting from Vigilance Press. You are one of the wuxia, the kung-fu masters of the fantastical empire of Shenzhou. Wandering the Jade Road and Silk River in the wild and dangerous border provinces, you use your Chi powers to cultivate fighting techniques and stunts that bring to life the epic dramas of Chinese film and literature. This new offer presents the entire Tianxia line. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this offer's pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$56. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all five titles in our Tianxia Collection (retail value $56) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Tianxia: Blood, Silk, & Jade core setting book (retail price $15) -- previously in the November 2014 Bundle of Fate 2 -- plus the pay-what-you-want Tianxia Accelerated and the lifepath generator Path of Destiny; three sourcebooks -- Spirits, Beasts, & Spells (retail $11), Strife, Fire, & Smoke (retail $9), and War, Iron, & Stone (retail price $11) -- and the full-length adventure 12 Golden Butchers (retail $10).
Tianxia uses Fudge Dice, available from Evil Hat Productions (as "Fate Dice"), at hobby gaming stores, or from Amazon (affiliate link)."
This is probably going to be a lot more interesting to people who are keen on fantasy martial arts settings - unfortunately it isn't a genre that appeals to me much. Most of what I know about martial arts comes from the Destroyer novels, the Daredevil TV show, films and comics so is suspect at best. There's incidentally a good section on source material covering a wide range of films, books, and video games, so plenty to work with if you want to see examples of how this stuff is used. It does include Big Trouble in Little China, which is of course essential viewing for this sort of setting if you take out the present day details.
It's well presented and looks playable if you want to roleplay a lot of martial arts with a side order of mysticism and it's based on the FATE system which works reasonably well, so ought to be reasonably usable. It's also cheap as these offers go, and if it's the sort of thing you like it's well worth a look. But as usual your mileage may vary!
