WFRP - Cathay Sourcebook.pdf

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Copyright Notice............................................................................................................................................4
1.0 I NTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................6
People...............................................................................................................................................................6
The Land..........................................................................................................................................................6
2.0 G EOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................................................................8
Flora.................................................................................................................................................................8
Natural Resources..........................................................................................................................................9
Wildlife ...........................................................................................................................................................10
Fantastic Creatures.....................................................................................................................................12
Chaos Creatures...........................................................................................................................................14
Law Creatures ..............................................................................................................................................14
Undead...........................................................................................................................................................14
3.0 H ISTORY .......................................................................................................................................................16
Dynastic Timeline.........................................................................................................................................16
Cathanese Calendar....................................................................................................................................27
4.0 R ELIGION .....................................................................................................................................................28
The 9 Sages & Ancestor Worship..............................................................................................................28
Vimtaoism......................................................................................................................................................32
Law Cults.......................................................................................................................................................35
The Cult of the God-Emperor/ Legalism..................................................................................................35
5.0 P OLITICS ......................................................................................................................................................38
The Mandate of Heaven..............................................................................................................................41
A Career in the Bureaucracy?...................................................................................................................41
Secret Organizations...................................................................................................................................41
Crime and Punishment................................................................................................................................42
Taxation .........................................................................................................................................................43
Education.......................................................................................................................................................43
6.0 P ROVINCIAL G AZETTEER ( SEE A M AP OF C ATHAY ) ..........................................................................44
Datai...............................................................................................................................................................44
Pingdong........................................................................................................................................................44
Bei An.............................................................................................................................................................44
Dongtan.........................................................................................................................................................45
Yukou..............................................................................................................................................................45
Wei Ao ............................................................................................................................................................45
Leofoo.............................................................................................................................................................45
Song Jiang.....................................................................................................................................................45
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Kun Tsou........................................................................................................................................................46
Wan Tsou .......................................................................................................................................................46
Shuang Hsi ....................................................................................................................................................46
Shan Jiao.......................................................................................................................................................46
Kitsevara........................................................................................................................................................46
Hobgoblin Hegemony..................................................................................................................................46
Ungol Steppes...............................................................................................................................................47
Han Kuo.........................................................................................................................................................47
Nippon............................................................................................................................................................47
Sind/Indhya....................................................................................................................................................47
7.0 S OCIETY .......................................................................................................................................................48
Family ............................................................................................................................................................48
Social Classes...............................................................................................................................................48
Business & Trade.........................................................................................................................................49
Currency........................................................................................................................................................49
Face................................................................................................................................................................49
8.0 W ARFARE & M ILITARY ............................................................................................................................50
Military Organization..................................................................................................................................50
Mercenaries...................................................................................................................................................51
Weapons & Armor .......................................................................................................................................51
Gunpowder & Explosives...........................................................................................................................52
9.0 M ARTIAL A RTS ( ADAPTED FROM G ARRET L EPPER ) ............................................................................54
Martial Arts Styles.......................................................................................................................................54
Combat Mechanisms for Martial Arts......................................................................................................56
Martial Arts Styles Table............................................................................................................................57
Cathanese Martial Artist Careers.............................................................................................................57
The Emperor’s Wall.....................................................................................................................................59
10.0 R OLEPLAYING IN C ATHAY .....................................................................................................................60
Basic Career Generation............................................................................................................................60
New Cathanese careers...............................................................................................................................61
Cathanese names..........................................................................................................................................71
CAMPAIGN NOTES....................................................................................................................................72
11.0 M AGICK IN C ATHAY ................................................................................................................................74
Cathanese practice.......................................................................................................................................74
Magick Items.................................................................................................................................................74
12.0 E QUIPMENT & P RICES ............................................................................................................................77
13.0 B IBLIOGRAPHY .........................................................................................................................................78
14.0 A UTHOR ’ S NOTE .......................................................................................................................................79
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15.0 P ROJECT CONTRIBUTORS ....................................................................................................................... 80
Copyright Notice
Warhammer Fantasy Role Play is a registered trademark owned by Games Workshop
used under license by Hogshead Publishing. All Games Workshop mechanics,
characters, character names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks
owned by Games Workshop and inclusion here is not meant to be a challenge to those
trademarks. Cathay: A Sourcebook for WFRP is made available to users of the
WFRP Archives (ftp://ftp.warhammer.net/pub/warhammer). Permission is granted to
use and print this work for personal nonprofit use only. Please do not upload this file
to any other BBS, FTP site, Web page or any other form of electronic media. Any
reproduction or transmission of this material in whole or in part without the expressed
written consent of the author of the work is a violation of copyright law. Final edition
copyright Brian Scot Hoover, August 8, 1998. All individual contributions copyright
their respective authors.
Brian Scot Hoover
shoover3@ms11.hinet.net
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Urnst fidgeted in the saddle. His backside ached after what seemed like a
lifetime spent riding across one wasteland after another. Behind him, the Tilean
began another of his interminable hacking fits. Their third companion, the dwarf, let
out a low snicker. “For the love of Sigmar, will you two shuddup,” Urnst growled.
Lately, tempers had begun to flare amongst the three unlikely travelers. It wasn’t
unreasonable given their fortunes of late.
The Tilean’s uncle, the patriarch of the Caldieri family of Miragliano had
provisioned a large and well supplied caravan, bound for the east. The Schattenburg
Rangers, a condottieri outfit of which Urnst and Kellri had been a part was
contracted to provide protection. Over 8 months later, and a series of nasty run-ins
with hobgoblin “toll collectors”, only the three were left. During the past week, they
had passed a number of small villages. Fearing another encounter with the goblinoids
they had kept their distance.
On the next ridge, stretching for miles on either side was a wall…
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Pushing his horse through a winding trail strewn with gravel, Urnst forged
ahead of the others. Despite a constant thirst, he had managed to stay alert and
determined not to die on this fool’s quest. Above him the path looked like it was rising
across a ridge. Spurring his horse upwards he caught his breath when he saw what
lay on the other side.

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