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<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
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==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
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The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea, on Jeju island at the southern tip of the peninsula. We will play at least 2 characters each. The game world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' series of novels and its alternate history; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor: <br />
* In the Temeraire series, Lawrence is a ship captain, not of a tiny ship, but he is also not an admiral; he's of medium importance. However, he has enormous importance in the world story. His dragon turns out to be one of only a handful of Celestial dragons; he saves England, is adopted by the Emperor of China, and so forth. <br />
* Also taking a note from the movie ''Blood Rain'', the characters will be similarly larger-than-life. <br />
* The game will have long episodes which tell the story of how characters become important. <br />
<br />
To reflect this, we will be using a variant of the pulp action RPG, Spirit of the Century.<br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
<br />
Character ideas<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Yong Gi Ja, a [http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jade Jade Dragon], retired from government courier service.<br />
* Bill - Kim Cho Hea, Park Min Bai's niece, a pearl diver.<br />
* Cyn -Park Min Bai, a shaman from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - Bob's character's hatchling dragon. fire breathing. Perky and bouncy.<br />
* Lee - Lee Ho-Fook. 40-ish related to Bob's character. Bitter fisherman. back from foreign lands after absence of 20 years. <br />
* Lee - Catholic priest? <br />
* Liz - Min Ju. Surly teenager. Used to be called "Snotface" and is now called "The Rat". He grew up on the streets, he's a petty criminal, and does odd jobs around town. His mom is a disreputable, abusive drunk. <br />
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* Liz - Yong Dak-Ho, Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. Dak-Ho has a collection of cool ocean stuff as her dragon bling. modern/japanese sympathies. <br />
* Bob - Inheriting the Orange/Citrus farm (the island's traditional tribute to Seoul)<br />
* Bob - Heather's fire breathing dragon.<br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
If we follow the conventions of dragon naming in Novik's China, Chinese dragons would have three-part names starting with "Lung" (meaning "dragon"). Korean dragon names would start with "Yong" if we construct them the same way. Dragon geneologies may become important. For human names, here's an article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name Korean names]. Here is a good table with [http://www.babynamebox.com/korean-baby-names.html some Korean name elements and their meanings]. Names "in translation" should be fine too.<br />
<br />
<br />
NPCs<br />
<br />
<br />
* family members. We will need some geneological charts. Many human characters may be part of two main families of Seongsan. Dragon families should be developed as well, though they might be sparser and more scattered.<br />
<br />
* Chul-Sun. "Sarge". A big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword <br />
<br />
* The older smuggler captain<br />
<br />
* The local magistrate (somewhat corrupt, in the smuggler captain's pocket)<br />
<br />
* Must make up yangban family or families<br />
<br />
* Teacher (dragon) at the village fisher dragon school<br />
<br />
===Historical Background===<br />
<br />
Korea in the 1860s was at a turning point. China had been humiliated by the European powers in the Opium Wars (1834-43 and 1856-60), and was still in the throes of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-65). Meanwhile, Japan had just been forced into the Convention of Kanagawa by Admiral Perry's "Black Ships" (1854), but was just beginning its modernization -- the Meiji Restoration would start in 1866. Within our history, the next five decades would see a turnover where Korea went from the Hermit Kingdom in the shadow of China to active occupation by the Japanese -- with a brief period (from 1897 to 1910) of a declared status as an independent empire.<br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Historical Background]]<br />
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===Fictional Background===<br />
<br />
Within the Temeraire world, as with most other points, there is a parallel history. Long ago, the native [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] lived beneath the seas, rivers, and lakes. However, they have been bred with Chinese dragons to form other distinctly Korean dragons that both fly and retain an affinity for water. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:FictionalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Fictional Background]]<br />
<br />
===Local Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
In Confucian tradition merchants are below farmers. But that's changing.. .rising middle/merchant class.<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Strait straits] - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Jeju island's female haenyo divers. These women train from a very young age and can hold their breath for up to two minutes as they dive off shore searching for abalone, octopus, urchins, conch and seaweed. This 2000-year old tradition is now dying out though as the daughters of the haenyo head to the city for easier jobs. The ones still doing it are in their eighties and work to supplement the income of their husbands who farm land. From over 30,000 divers in the 1980's, the number has now dropped to less than 6000, most of whom are over 40.<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles <br />
*Fishing, deep sea<br />
*Oranges, citrus<br />
*Other farming<br />
*Sturdy excellent ponies (yum!)<br />
*Pearls<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Geography===<br />
<br />
Jeju island has a central volcano, Mt. Halla, with crater lakes. There's lots of black lava, caves, waterfalls.<br />
<br />
Our game will begin in Seongsam, near the island of Wu, or Udo, in the east of Jeju. We should have a map of the town and surrounding areas - making up something reasonable.<br />
<br />
Brief description of some scenic locations, with photos:<br />
http://www.chejuinfo.net/tour/tour_e.html<br />
<br />
General region: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=35.85344,127.22168&spn=17.806098,28.432617&om=1<br />
<br />
Closeup from Google satellite map of Seongsam, harbor, and Udo:<br />
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=33.486292,126.921787&spn=0.071727,0.111065&t=k&om=1<br />
<br />
Map showing elevations, very general, color:<br />
http://www1.korea-np.co.jp/pk/124th_issue/Chejudo.jpg<br />
<br />
Awesome map links from [http://mechanteanemone.livejournal.com/ mechanteanemone]:<br />
<br />
# [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/images/wt0077_2cp1s.jpg Map of Korea], and [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/images/wt0077_2dp1s.jpg map of Cholla Province], mid-18th century - Library of Congress<br />
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# [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/korea.html Korea maps] - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (scroll down to historical maps)<br />
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# [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_maps_of_Korea Old maps of Korea] on Wikimedia Commons<br />
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# [http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/maps.htm The Journal of Hamel: Maps of Korea] - includes links to higher-resolution maps.<br />
<br />
# an [http://www.geocities.jp/tanaka_kunitaka/takeshima/kaisa.jpg island just to the east of Ulleungdo]<br />
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# [http://www.dokdo-takeshima.com/dokdo-ulleungdo.html Early Chosun maps of Ulleungdo]<br />
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# Bonus link: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Confucius_temple_1912.jpg Confucius Temple] in Qufu, 1912, just because it belongs in the Temeraire series!<br />
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===Myths and Magic===<br />
<br />
* Hwanung and the bear woman. She became human through prayer, mugwort, and eating a lot of garlic. Their son is Tangun (semi divine, lawgiver) http://www.taekwondobible.com/korculture/spirit/myth.html<br />
I'd like to find out if the bear woman had a name! (Liz)<br />
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* Jeju island origin myth. According to the founding myth of Samseonghyeol, Jeju was uninhabited until three divine men emerged from the ground at Moheunghyeol, now located on the northern foot of Hallasan. Samseonghyeol Shrine, This shrine houses three small caves from which, according to Jeju folklore, three god deities emerged and went on to create the three provinces of Jeju island and populate the island. The three young men emerged from the caves and lived a happy life together on the island. A king on the mainland was visited by a messenger who told him to send his three daughter princesses on a boat to the island with livestock and seeds. The three daughters taught the men on the island how to farm. They were married and spent their honeymoon nights within the caves. Afterwards, each of the three men shot an arrow into the air. Wherever their arrow landed, they were to make their homes. Thus, the three provinces and kingdoms of Jeju island were created. The shrine also houses a rock that bears the marking of an arrowhead where one of the arrows was said to have landed. On a special holiday on Jeju, the direct descendants of these three couples, which inlcudes the majority of Jeju's population gather together at this Shrine and pay tribute to the ancestors.<br />
<br />
* Sangbangulsa Grotto - I bet this has something good... This is where monk Hye-Il (964-1053) had lived during the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) <br />
* Jeongbang Waterfall. Associated with eternal life legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongbang_Waterfall<br />
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* Cheonjeyeon Waterfall: legend of the nymph and mountain god. And/Or something about seven beautiful nymphs who come out at night. A famous bridge as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonjeyeon_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Jungmun Daepo Coast Jusangjeolli Cliff - hexagonal basalt columns, must be a good story here<br />
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* Yongduam Rock. (Dragon's head). There are two ancient legends to explain the mystery rock formation. According to one, a dragon envoy of the Dragon King was sent to Mt. Halla to retrieve a herb which would give Eternal Youth. But the Mountain God cast the dragon envoy into the sea and turned him to stone. The second legend tells of a dragon who stole the jade bead amulet of the Mountain God. While trying to escape, the Mountain God shot down the dragon with a golden arrow and it fell into the sea, turned to stone. The two-million year old basalt rock formation resembles a partially sumberged dragon, with it's head above water.<br />
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* dolhareubangs - pillar statues of men in hats, mysterious... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang<br />
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* Jeju's Mystery Ghost Roads. Exactly, the same phenomenom as Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick. It's an optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape at the base of Mt. Halla that gives you the impression that a hill is going up when it's actually going down.<br />
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* Seongsan Illchulbong - volcanic crater near seongsan<br />
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===Dragon ecology===<br />
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* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
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* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
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===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
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===Rules: ===<br />
<br />
We are using a variant of the pulp action RPG, [http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/spiritofthecentury/ Spirit of the Century]. It is changed to include scale to allow for dragon characters, and adding more grit to the conflicts to speed up resolution. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:Rules| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Rules]]<br />
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===Glossary===<br />
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* haenyo - pearl divers, traditionally female<br />
* sowon - official schools (confucian)<br />
* sohak - "Western learning" i.e. Catholicism. The Catholics are against ancestral rites.<br />
* tonghak - "eastern learning" new korean religion, sparked rebellion in 1860s and again later<br />
* yangban - hereditary aristocracy<br />
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===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1462.html The early US-Korea relations<br />
Excerpt from "A Brief History of the US-Korea Relations Prior to 1945"<br />
Kim Young-Sik, Ph.D.<br />
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* http://www.thesecondlayer.com/gallery/southkorea/jeju/galleryjeju.html Someone's excellent vacation photos with explanations of interesting things, legends, etc.<br />
<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
* Isabella Bird Bishop - travels in Korea, 1890s http://www.ganesha-publishing.com/bird_intro.htm<br />
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===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
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[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
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[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=49790Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-04-25T22:15:58Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Geography */</p>
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<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
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==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor: <br />
* In the Temeraire series, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance. However, he has enormous importance in the world story. His dragon turns out to be one of only a handful of Celestial dragons; he saves England, is adopted by the Emperor of China, and so forth. <br />
* Also taking a note from the movie ''Blood Rain'', the characters will be similarly larger-than-life. <br />
* It will have long episodes which tell the story of how characters become important. <br />
<br />
To reflect this, we will be using a variant of the pulp action RPG, Spirit of the Century. <br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
<br />
Character ideas<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Yong Gi Ja, a [http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jade Jade Dragon], retired from government courier service.<br />
* Bill - Kim Cho Hea, Park Min Bai's niece, a pearl diver.<br />
* Cyn -Park Min Bai, a shaman from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - Bob's character's hatchling dragon. fire breathing. Perky and bouncy.<br />
* Lee - Lee Ho-Fook. 40-ish related to Bob's character. Bitter fisherman. back from foreign lands after absence of 20 years. <br />
* Lee - Catholic priest? <br />
* Liz - Min Ju. Surly teenager. Used to be called "Snotface" and is now called "The Rat". He grew up on the streets, he's a petty criminal, and does odd jobs around town. His mom is a disreputable, abusive drunk. <br />
<br />
* Liz - Yong Dak-Ho, Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. Dak-Ho has a collection of cool ocean stuff as her dragon bling. modern/japanese sympathies. <br />
* Bob - Inheriting the Orange/Citrus farm (the island's traditional tribute to Seoul)<br />
* Bob - Heather's fire breathing dragon.<br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
If we follow the conventions of dragon naming in Novik's China, Chinese dragons would have three-part names starting with "Lung" (meaning "dragon"). Korean dragon names would start with "Yong" if we construct them the same way. Dragon geneologies may become important. For human names, here's an article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name Korean names]. Here is a good table with [http://www.babynamebox.com/korean-baby-names.html some Korean name elements and their meanings]. Names "in translation" should be fine too.<br />
<br />
<br />
NPCs<br />
<br />
<br />
* family members. We will need some geneological charts. Many human characters may be part of two main families of Seongsan. Dragon families should be developed as well, though they might be sparser and more scattered.<br />
<br />
* Chul-Sun. "Sarge". A big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword <br />
<br />
* The older smuggler captain<br />
<br />
* The local magistrate (somewhat corrupt, in the smuggler captain's pocket)<br />
<br />
* Must make up yangban family or families<br />
<br />
* Teacher (dragon) at the village fisher dragon school<br />
<br />
===Historical Background===<br />
<br />
Korea in the 1860s was at a turning point. China had been humiliated by the European powers in the Opium Wars (1834-43 and 1856-60), and was still in the throes of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-65). Meanwhile, Japan had just been forced into the Convention of Kanagawa by Admiral Perry's "Black Ships" (1854), but was just beginning its modernization -- the Meiji Restoration would start in 1866. Within our history, the next five decades would see a turnover where Korea went from the Hermit Kingdom in the shadow of China to active occupation by the Japanese -- with a brief period (from 1897 to 1910) of a declared status as an independent empire.<br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Historical Background]]<br />
<br />
===Fictional Background===<br />
<br />
Within the Temeraire world, as with most other points, there is a parallel history. Long ago, the native [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] lived beneath the seas, rivers, and lakes. However, they have been bred with Chinese dragons to form other distinctly Korean dragons that both fly and retain an affinity for water. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:FictionalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Fictional Background]]<br />
<br />
===Local Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
In Confucian tradition merchants are below farmers. But that's changing.. .rising middle/merchant class.<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Strait straits] - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Jeju island's female haenyo divers. These women train from a very young age and can hold their breath for up to two minutes as they dive off shore searching for abalone, octopus, urchins, conch and seaweed. This 2000-year old tradition is now dying out though as the daughters of the haenyo head to the city for easier jobs. The ones still doing it are in their eighties and work to supplement the income of their husbands who farm land. From over 30,000 divers in the 1980's, the number has now dropped to less than 6000, most of whom are over 40.<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles <br />
*Fishing, deep sea<br />
*Oranges, citrus<br />
*Other farming<br />
*Sturdy excellent ponies (yum!)<br />
*Pearls<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Geography===<br />
<br />
Jeju island has a central volcano, Mt. Halla, with crater lakes. There's lots of black lava, caves, waterfalls.<br />
<br />
Our game will begin in Seongsam, near the island of Wu, or Udo, in the east of Jeju. We should have a map of the town and surrounding areas - making up something reasonable.<br />
<br />
Brief description of some scenic locations, with photos:<br />
http://www.chejuinfo.net/tour/tour_e.html<br />
<br />
General region: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=35.85344,127.22168&spn=17.806098,28.432617&om=1<br />
<br />
Closeup from Google satellite map of Seongsam, harbor, and Udo:<br />
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=33.486292,126.921787&spn=0.071727,0.111065&t=k&om=1<br />
<br />
Map showing elevations, very general, color:<br />
http://www1.korea-np.co.jp/pk/124th_issue/Chejudo.jpg<br />
<br />
Awesome map links from [http://mechanteanemone.livejournal.com/ mechanteanemone]:<br />
<br />
# [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/images/wt0077_2cp1s.jpg Map of Korea], and [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/images/wt0077_2dp1s.jpg map of Cholla Province], mid-18th century - Library of Congress<br />
<br />
# [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/korea.html Korea maps] - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (scroll down to historical maps)<br />
<br />
# [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_maps_of_Korea Old maps of Korea] on Wikimedia Commons<br />
<br />
# [http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/maps.htm The Journal of Hamel: Maps of Korea] - includes links to higher-resolution maps.<br />
<br />
# an [http://www.geocities.jp/tanaka_kunitaka/takeshima/kaisa.jpg island just to the east of Ulleungdo]<br />
<br />
# [http://www.dokdo-takeshima.com/dokdo-ulleungdo.html Early Chosun maps of Ulleungdo]<br />
<br />
# Bonus link: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Confucius_temple_1912.jpg Confucius Temple] in Qufu, 1912, just because it belongs in the Temeraire series!<br />
<br />
===Myths and Magic===<br />
<br />
* Hwanung and the bear woman. She became human through prayer, mugwort, and eating a lot of garlic. Their son is Tangun (semi divine, lawgiver) http://www.taekwondobible.com/korculture/spirit/myth.html<br />
I'd like to find out if the bear woman had a name! (Liz)<br />
<br />
* Jeju island origin myth. According to the founding myth of Samseonghyeol, Jeju was uninhabited until three divine men emerged from the ground at Moheunghyeol, now located on the northern foot of Hallasan. Samseonghyeol Shrine, This shrine houses three small caves from which, according to Jeju folklore, three god deities emerged and went on to create the three provinces of Jeju island and populate the island. The three young men emerged from the caves and lived a happy life together on the island. A king on the mainland was visited by a messenger who told him to send his three daughter princesses on a boat to the island with livestock and seeds. The three daughters taught the men on the island how to farm. They were married and spent their honeymoon nights within the caves. Afterwards, each of the three men shot an arrow into the air. Wherever their arrow landed, they were to make their homes. Thus, the three provinces and kingdoms of Jeju island were created. The shrine also houses a rock that bears the marking of an arrowhead where one of the arrows was said to have landed. On a special holiday on Jeju, the direct descendants of these three couples, which inlcudes the majority of Jeju's population gather together at this Shrine and pay tribute to the ancestors.<br />
<br />
* Sangbangulsa Grotto - I bet this has something good... This is where monk Hye-Il (964-1053) had lived during the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) <br />
* Jeongbang Waterfall. Associated with eternal life legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongbang_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Cheonjeyeon Waterfall: legend of the nymph and mountain god. And/Or something about seven beautiful nymphs who come out at night. A famous bridge as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonjeyeon_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Jungmun Daepo Coast Jusangjeolli Cliff - hexagonal basalt columns, must be a good story here<br />
<br />
* Yongduam Rock. (Dragon's head). There are two ancient legends to explain the mystery rock formation. According to one, a dragon envoy of the Dragon King was sent to Mt. Halla to retrieve a herb which would give Eternal Youth. But the Mountain God cast the dragon envoy into the sea and turned him to stone. The second legend tells of a dragon who stole the jade bead amulet of the Mountain God. While trying to escape, the Mountain God shot down the dragon with a golden arrow and it fell into the sea, turned to stone. The two-million year old basalt rock formation resembles a partially sumberged dragon, with it's head above water.<br />
<br />
* dolhareubangs - pillar statues of men in hats, mysterious... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang<br />
<br />
* Jeju's Mystery Ghost Roads. Exactly, the same phenomenom as Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick. It's an optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape at the base of Mt. Halla that gives you the impression that a hill is going up when it's actually going down.<br />
<br />
* Seongsan Illchulbong - volcanic crater near seongsan<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules: ===<br />
<br />
We are using a variant of the pulp action RPG, [http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/spiritofthecentury/ Spirit of the Century]. It is changed to include scale to allow for dragon characters, and adding more grit to the conflicts to speed up resolution. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:Rules| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Rules]]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Glossary===<br />
<br />
* haenyo - pearl divers, traditionally female<br />
* sowon - official schools (confucian)<br />
* sohak - "Western learning" i.e. Catholicism. The Catholics are against ancestral rites.<br />
* tonghak - "eastern learning" new korean religion, sparked rebellion in 1860s and again later<br />
* yangban - hereditary aristocracy<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1462.html The early US-Korea relations<br />
Excerpt from "A Brief History of the US-Korea Relations Prior to 1945"<br />
Kim Young-Sik, Ph.D.<br />
<br />
* http://www.thesecondlayer.com/gallery/southkorea/jeju/galleryjeju.html Someone's excellent vacation photos with explanations of interesting things, legends, etc.<br />
<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
* Isabella Bird Bishop - travels in Korea, 1890s http://www.ganesha-publishing.com/bird_intro.htm<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
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[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
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[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground&diff=49676DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground2007-04-25T14:11:58Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Timeline of events */</p>
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<div>===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1590s - Japanese troops invade. Turtle boats, Admiral Yi. Cities burn. Ceramic artisans and others enslaved and taken to Japan (200,000+ skilled workers).<br />
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1620s-1640s Manchu invasion (mostly in the north) Manchu influence at court.<br />
<br />
1628 Dutch shipwreck gives Koreans some gun-making slaves. Hendrik Hamel escapes and writes a book.<br />
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1674-1720 King Sukchong bunch of reforms, builds up military, irrigation building, coining. <br />
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1700s in general: Shirhak (Practical Learning) movement gains more power. New ideas, break with tradition encouraged, economic and social reforms/justice, study of science, geography, culture, economics, education, agriculture.<br />
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1712 New treaty between Korea and China on northern border<br />
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1724 - 1776 King Yongjo, many tax reforms, secret inspectors instituted, financial reform, organized merchant groups. Starved his misbehaving son to death, to uphold principle<br />
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1776-1806 King Chongjo relief for poor, reform continues, scholarship, freeing of most govt. slaves, rise of artisan class<br />
<br />
1806 child king age 11, unrest in Korea, court intrigue, families of queens, Kim and Cho clans<br />
<br />
Slavery is slowly disappearing in Korea. All government slaves freed. (Around 1806).<br />
<br />
Droughts. Corruption. People migrating to mainland. Aristocracy (yong-ban) is slowly losing its grip, there is a rising merchant class.<br />
<br />
1834 young king age 8 More "power politics" and court intrigue<br />
<br />
"The disarray of the three administrations": mismanagement by local tax collectors (land tax, military service tax) buying their positions, adding surcharges and fees; and the mismanagement of state granaries (illegal usury, fees for needy who borrowed from granary). Government going bankrupt. Popular discontent, "fire brigands" and "water bandits".<br />
<br />
Slavery continues to disappear, middle class rising. <br />
<br />
China's influence waning, Japanese influence rising. There are starting to be Japanese advisors in Korean military.<br />
<br />
<br />
1846 the French frigates Gloire and Victorieuse sent to investigate massacre of missionaries. The ships grounded and the crews were transported home by English ships.<br />
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1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
1850- There are around 15,000 Korean Catholics.<br />
<br />
1853- U.S. gunboat South America stops in Pusan. Stays 10 days without inicident.<br />
<br />
1855 and also in 1865, a number of shipwrecked American sailors were picked up on the Korean shores. <br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
"In the spring of 1862, a disgruntled ex-officia brought about an uprising in Chinju, Kyongsang Province, which was followed by ones of Cheju Island and Iksan, Cholla Province, plunging the country into chaos" (Nahm 138).<br />
<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
1864 - King Gojong, an 11-year-old prince, is adopted by the elderly Queen Cho (mother of the previous king) and made king. His father as regent becomes a powerful force for reform. <br />
<br />
1860s-1870s American and French attacks on Korea were driven off.<br />
1866 another French expedition was defeated at the mouth of the Han River<br />
1866 burning of the General Sherman, an armed American merchantman. US considers war.<br />
1871 American expedition led by Admiral Rodgers defeated<br />
<br />
<h3>King Gojong</h3><br />
<br />
In 1864, Gojong Gwangmuje would ascend the Korean throne at the age of 12 -- the last Korean king and the first emperor of Joseon. His father, known as the Daewon-gun ("Prince of the Great Court"), attempted to enact a series of reforms. He was largely successful, but faced considerable resistance from all sides -- including in the following years Gojong's wife Queen Min who eventually ousted him from power. The story of Gojong's ascension is described in Bruce Cummins <u>Korea's Place in the Sun</u> as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><p><i>Foreigners found the dynasty near its lowest point in four centuries. Through much of the nineteenth century Korea had no strong ruler, only a succession of child kings and weaklings. Queen dowagers and their clans (especially the Andong Kims) controlled the government and dominated the court behind the scenes. Sunjo was but ten years old when he became king in 1800; Heonjong, who came to the throne in 1834, at the age of eight, died suddenly fifteen years later, and Dowager Queen Kim, fifty-nine years old, picked the third son of Prince Chongye to be the king. He was nineteen years old and had no accomplishments of note; royal messengers dragged him back to Seoul from where they found him, behind a cow and a plow on Kanghwa Island, and made him the twenty-fifth Joseon dynasty king, Cheoljong. As (James Scarth) Gale commented, he was someone with whom Dowager Queen Kim "might play as a college girl does with her tennis ball." Thus were born "contests between queens, clan fights, palace intrigues, all of which lent themselves to Korea's speedy downfall."</i> (From "History of the Korean People.", 1972)</p><br />
<br />
<p><i>Cheoljong died at the age of thirty-two in January 1864, a victim of the excesses and extravagances of the court. Three dowagers now dueled in the palace: Queen Cho, mother of King Heonjong; Queen Hong, Heonjong's wife; and Queen Kim, wife of the just-deceased king. The ball they batted around now was the absence of a direct heir to the royal line; the new king would have to be an adoptee from one of the consort clans. Queen Kim of the Andong coterie summoned a retired minister nearing eighty and told him to go find the eleven-year-old son of Prince Hungson, who turned out to be flying a kite in a nearby garden. Runners perched him on a royal sedan chair and carried him off to the palace. Before anyone else (including Queen Kim) could act, Dowager Cho rushed forward exclaiming "My son!" and grabbed his hand hand and took him behind the queenly curtain. Presently she announced through the veil, "I have made the new king the son of Ikchong... I have hung up the screen and now take command of the government." The assembled ministers had no choice but to bow and accept the nation's fate. Why?</i></p><br />
<br />
<p><i>If we think about this thing called "the state," it can be a set of representative institutions, a bureaucracy, or the exercise of sovereign power by a dowager. As Marx once wrote of the German monarchy, state sovereignty can be "sprinkled" by the king, as if he were wielding a salt shaker. Dowager Cho cast her salt and thus was produced King Gojong, adopted son of Ikchong (who had died twenty-two years before Gojong's birth), last monarch of Korea, and a fateful historical symbol.</i></p><br />
</blockquote></div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=49531Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-04-22T20:41:26Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Glossary */</p>
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<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
<br />
==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor: <br />
* In the Temeraire series, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance. However, he has enormous importance in the world story. His dragon turns out to be one of only a handful of Celestial dragons; he saves England, is adopted by the Emperor of China, and so forth. <br />
* Also taking a note from the movie ''Blood Rain'', the characters will be similarly larger-than-life. <br />
* It will have long episodes which tell the story of how characters become important. <br />
<br />
To reflect this, we will be using a variant of the pulp action RPG, Spirit of the Century. <br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
<br />
Character ideas<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Yong Gi Ja, a [http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jade Jade Dragon], retired from government courier service.<br />
* Bill - Kim Cho Hea, Park Min Bai's niece, a pearl diver.<br />
* Cyn -Park Min Bai, a shaman from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - Bob's character's hatchling dragon. fire breathing. Perky and bouncy.<br />
* Lee - Lee Ho-Fook. 40-ish related to Bob's character. Bitter fisherman. back from foreign lands after absence of 20 years. <br />
* Lee - Catholic priest? <br />
* Liz - Min Ju. Surly teenager. Used to be called "Snotface" and is now called "The Rat". He grew up on the streets, he's a petty criminal, and does odd jobs around town. His mom is a disreputable, abusive drunk. <br />
<br />
* Liz - Yong Dak-Ho, Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. Dak-Ho has a collection of cool ocean stuff as her dragon bling. modern/japanese sympathies. <br />
* Bob - Inheriting the Orange/Citrus farm (the island's traditional tribute to Seoul)<br />
* Bob - Heather's fire breathing dragon.<br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
If we follow the conventions of dragon naming in Novik's China, Chinese dragons would have three-part names starting with "Lung" (meaning "dragon"). Korean dragon names would start with "Yong" if we construct them the same way. Dragon geneologies may become important. For human names, here's an article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name Korean names]. Here is a good table with [http://www.babynamebox.com/korean-baby-names.html some Korean name elements and their meanings]. Names "in translation" should be fine too.<br />
<br />
<br />
NPCs<br />
<br />
<br />
* family members. We will need some geneological charts. Many human characters may be part of two main families of Seongsan. Dragon families should be developed as well, though they might be sparser and more scattered.<br />
<br />
* Chul-Sun. "Sarge". A big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword <br />
<br />
* The older smuggler captain<br />
<br />
* The local magistrate (somewhat corrupt, in the smuggler captain's pocket)<br />
<br />
* Must make up yangban family or families<br />
<br />
* Teacher (dragon) at the village fisher dragon school<br />
<br />
===Historical Background===<br />
<br />
Korea in the 1860s was at a turning point. China had been humiliated by the European powers in the Opium Wars (1834-43 and 1856-60), and was still in the throes of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-65). Meanwhile, Japan had just been forced into the Convention of Kanagawa by Admiral Perry's "Black Ships" (1854), but was just beginning its modernization -- the Meiji Restoration would start in 1866. Within our history, the next five decades would see a turnover where Korea went from the Hermit Kingdom in the shadow of China to active occupation by the Japanese -- with a brief period (from 1897 to 1910) of a declared status as an independent empire.<br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Historical Background]]<br />
<br />
===Fictional Background===<br />
<br />
Within the Temeraire world, as with most other points, there is a parallel history. Long ago, the native [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] lived beneath the seas, rivers, and lakes. However, they have been bred with Chinese dragons to form other distinctly Korean dragons that both fly and retain an affinity for water. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:FictionalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Fictional Background]]<br />
<br />
===Local Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
In Confucian tradition merchants are below farmers. But that's changing.. .rising middle/merchant class.<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Strait straits] - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Jeju island's female haenyo divers. These women train from a very young age and can hold their breath for up to two minutes as they dive off shore searching for abalone, octopus, urchins, conch and seaweed. This 2000-year old tradition is now dying out though as the daughters of the haenyo head to the city for easier jobs. The ones still doing it are in their eighties and work to supplement the income of their husbands who farm land. From over 30,000 divers in the 1980's, the number has now dropped to less than 6000, most of whom are over 40.<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles <br />
*Fishing, deep sea<br />
*Oranges, citrus<br />
*Other farming<br />
*Sturdy excellent ponies (yum!)<br />
*Pearls<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Geography===<br />
<br />
Jeju island has a central volcano, Mt. Halla, with crater lakes. There's lots of black lava, caves, waterfalls.<br />
<br />
Our game will begin in Seongsam, near the island of Wu, or Udo, in the east of Jeju. We should have a map of the town and surrounding areas - making up something reasonable.<br />
<br />
Brief description of some scenic locations, with photos:<br />
http://www.chejuinfo.net/tour/tour_e.html<br />
<br />
General region: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=35.85344,127.22168&spn=17.806098,28.432617&om=1<br />
<br />
Closeup from Google satellite map of Seongsam, harbor, and Udo:<br />
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=33.486292,126.921787&spn=0.071727,0.111065&t=k&om=1<br />
<br />
Map showing elevations, very general, color:<br />
http://www1.korea-np.co.jp/pk/124th_issue/Chejudo.jpg<br />
<br />
===Myths and Magic===<br />
<br />
* Hwanung and the bear woman. She became human through prayer, mugwort, and eating a lot of garlic. Their son is Tangun (semi divine, lawgiver) http://www.taekwondobible.com/korculture/spirit/myth.html<br />
I'd like to find out if the bear woman had a name! (Liz)<br />
<br />
* Jeju island origin myth. According to the founding myth of Samseonghyeol, Jeju was uninhabited until three divine men emerged from the ground at Moheunghyeol, now located on the northern foot of Hallasan. Samseonghyeol Shrine, This shrine houses three small caves from which, according to Jeju folklore, three god deities emerged and went on to create the three provinces of Jeju island and populate the island. The three young men emerged from the caves and lived a happy life together on the island. A king on the mainland was visited by a messenger who told him to send his three daughter princesses on a boat to the island with livestock and seeds. The three daughters taught the men on the island how to farm. They were married and spent their honeymoon nights within the caves. Afterwards, each of the three men shot an arrow into the air. Wherever their arrow landed, they were to make their homes. Thus, the three provinces and kingdoms of Jeju island were created. The shrine also houses a rock that bears the marking of an arrowhead where one of the arrows was said to have landed. On a special holiday on Jeju, the direct descendants of these three couples, which inlcudes the majority of Jeju's population gather together at this Shrine and pay tribute to the ancestors.<br />
<br />
* Sangbangulsa Grotto - I bet this has something good... This is where monk Hye-Il (964-1053) had lived during the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) <br />
* Jeongbang Waterfall. Associated with eternal life legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongbang_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Cheonjeyeon Waterfall: legend of the nymph and mountain god. And/Or something about seven beautiful nymphs who come out at night. A famous bridge as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonjeyeon_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Jungmun Daepo Coast Jusangjeolli Cliff - hexagonal basalt columns, must be a good story here<br />
<br />
* Yongduam Rock. (Dragon's head). There are two ancient legends to explain the mystery rock formation. According to one, a dragon envoy of the Dragon King was sent to Mt. Halla to retrieve a herb which would give Eternal Youth. But the Mountain God cast the dragon envoy into the sea and turned him to stone. The second legend tells of a dragon who stole the jade bead amulet of the Mountain God. While trying to escape, the Mountain God shot down the dragon with a golden arrow and it fell into the sea, turned to stone. The two-million year old basalt rock formation resembles a partially sumberged dragon, with it's head above water.<br />
<br />
* dolhareubangs - pillar statues of men in hats, mysterious... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang<br />
<br />
* Jeju's Mystery Ghost Roads. Exactly, the same phenomenom as Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick. It's an optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape at the base of Mt. Halla that gives you the impression that a hill is going up when it's actually going down.<br />
<br />
* Seongsan Illchulbong - volcanic crater near seongsan<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules: ===<br />
<br />
We are using a variant of the pulp action RPG, [http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/spiritofthecentury/ Spirit of the Century]. It is changed to include scale to allow for dragon characters, and adding more grit to the conflicts to speed up resolution. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:Rules| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Rules]]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Glossary===<br />
<br />
* haenyo - pearl divers, traditionally female<br />
* sowon - official schools (confucian)<br />
* sohak - "Western learning" i.e. Catholicism. The Catholics are against ancestral rites.<br />
* tonghak - "eastern learning" new korean religion, sparked rebellion in 1860s and again later<br />
* yangban - hereditary aristocracy<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1462.html The early US-Korea relations<br />
Excerpt from "A Brief History of the US-Korea Relations Prior to 1945"<br />
Kim Young-Sik, Ph.D.<br />
<br />
* http://www.thesecondlayer.com/gallery/southkorea/jeju/galleryjeju.html Someone's excellent vacation photos with explanations of interesting things, legends, etc.<br />
<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
* Isabella Bird Bishop - travels in Korea, 1890s http://www.ganesha-publishing.com/bird_intro.htm<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
<br />
[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=49530Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-04-22T20:40:41Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Characters */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
<br />
==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor: <br />
* In the Temeraire series, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance. However, he has enormous importance in the world story. His dragon turns out to be one of only a handful of Celestial dragons; he saves England, is adopted by the Emperor of China, and so forth. <br />
* Also taking a note from the movie ''Blood Rain'', the characters will be similarly larger-than-life. <br />
* It will have long episodes which tell the story of how characters become important. <br />
<br />
To reflect this, we will be using a variant of the pulp action RPG, Spirit of the Century. <br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
<br />
Character ideas<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Yong Gi Ja, a [http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jade Jade Dragon], retired from government courier service.<br />
* Bill - Kim Cho Hea, Park Min Bai's niece, a pearl diver.<br />
* Cyn -Park Min Bai, a shaman from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - Bob's character's hatchling dragon. fire breathing. Perky and bouncy.<br />
* Lee - Lee Ho-Fook. 40-ish related to Bob's character. Bitter fisherman. back from foreign lands after absence of 20 years. <br />
* Lee - Catholic priest? <br />
* Liz - Min Ju. Surly teenager. Used to be called "Snotface" and is now called "The Rat". He grew up on the streets, he's a petty criminal, and does odd jobs around town. His mom is a disreputable, abusive drunk. <br />
<br />
* Liz - Yong Dak-Ho, Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. Dak-Ho has a collection of cool ocean stuff as her dragon bling. modern/japanese sympathies. <br />
* Bob - Inheriting the Orange/Citrus farm (the island's traditional tribute to Seoul)<br />
* Bob - Heather's fire breathing dragon.<br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
If we follow the conventions of dragon naming in Novik's China, Chinese dragons would have three-part names starting with "Lung" (meaning "dragon"). Korean dragon names would start with "Yong" if we construct them the same way. Dragon geneologies may become important. For human names, here's an article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name Korean names]. Here is a good table with [http://www.babynamebox.com/korean-baby-names.html some Korean name elements and their meanings]. Names "in translation" should be fine too.<br />
<br />
<br />
NPCs<br />
<br />
<br />
* family members. We will need some geneological charts. Many human characters may be part of two main families of Seongsan. Dragon families should be developed as well, though they might be sparser and more scattered.<br />
<br />
* Chul-Sun. "Sarge". A big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword <br />
<br />
* The older smuggler captain<br />
<br />
* The local magistrate (somewhat corrupt, in the smuggler captain's pocket)<br />
<br />
* Must make up yangban family or families<br />
<br />
* Teacher (dragon) at the village fisher dragon school<br />
<br />
===Historical Background===<br />
<br />
Korea in the 1860s was at a turning point. China had been humiliated by the European powers in the Opium Wars (1834-43 and 1856-60), and was still in the throes of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-65). Meanwhile, Japan had just been forced into the Convention of Kanagawa by Admiral Perry's "Black Ships" (1854), but was just beginning its modernization -- the Meiji Restoration would start in 1866. Within our history, the next five decades would see a turnover where Korea went from the Hermit Kingdom in the shadow of China to active occupation by the Japanese -- with a brief period (from 1897 to 1910) of a declared status as an independent empire.<br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Historical Background]]<br />
<br />
===Fictional Background===<br />
<br />
Within the Temeraire world, as with most other points, there is a parallel history. Long ago, the native [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] lived beneath the seas, rivers, and lakes. However, they have been bred with Chinese dragons to form other distinctly Korean dragons that both fly and retain an affinity for water. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:FictionalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Fictional Background]]<br />
<br />
===Local Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
In Confucian tradition merchants are below farmers. But that's changing.. .rising middle/merchant class.<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Strait straits] - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Jeju island's female haenyo divers. These women train from a very young age and can hold their breath for up to two minutes as they dive off shore searching for abalone, octopus, urchins, conch and seaweed. This 2000-year old tradition is now dying out though as the daughters of the haenyo head to the city for easier jobs. The ones still doing it are in their eighties and work to supplement the income of their husbands who farm land. From over 30,000 divers in the 1980's, the number has now dropped to less than 6000, most of whom are over 40.<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles <br />
*Fishing, deep sea<br />
*Oranges, citrus<br />
*Other farming<br />
*Sturdy excellent ponies (yum!)<br />
*Pearls<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Geography===<br />
<br />
Jeju island has a central volcano, Mt. Halla, with crater lakes. There's lots of black lava, caves, waterfalls.<br />
<br />
Our game will begin in Seongsam, near the island of Wu, or Udo, in the east of Jeju. We should have a map of the town and surrounding areas - making up something reasonable.<br />
<br />
Brief description of some scenic locations, with photos:<br />
http://www.chejuinfo.net/tour/tour_e.html<br />
<br />
General region: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=35.85344,127.22168&spn=17.806098,28.432617&om=1<br />
<br />
Closeup from Google satellite map of Seongsam, harbor, and Udo:<br />
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=33.486292,126.921787&spn=0.071727,0.111065&t=k&om=1<br />
<br />
Map showing elevations, very general, color:<br />
http://www1.korea-np.co.jp/pk/124th_issue/Chejudo.jpg<br />
<br />
===Myths and Magic===<br />
<br />
* Hwanung and the bear woman. She became human through prayer, mugwort, and eating a lot of garlic. Their son is Tangun (semi divine, lawgiver) http://www.taekwondobible.com/korculture/spirit/myth.html<br />
I'd like to find out if the bear woman had a name! (Liz)<br />
<br />
* Jeju island origin myth. According to the founding myth of Samseonghyeol, Jeju was uninhabited until three divine men emerged from the ground at Moheunghyeol, now located on the northern foot of Hallasan. Samseonghyeol Shrine, This shrine houses three small caves from which, according to Jeju folklore, three god deities emerged and went on to create the three provinces of Jeju island and populate the island. The three young men emerged from the caves and lived a happy life together on the island. A king on the mainland was visited by a messenger who told him to send his three daughter princesses on a boat to the island with livestock and seeds. The three daughters taught the men on the island how to farm. They were married and spent their honeymoon nights within the caves. Afterwards, each of the three men shot an arrow into the air. Wherever their arrow landed, they were to make their homes. Thus, the three provinces and kingdoms of Jeju island were created. The shrine also houses a rock that bears the marking of an arrowhead where one of the arrows was said to have landed. On a special holiday on Jeju, the direct descendants of these three couples, which inlcudes the majority of Jeju's population gather together at this Shrine and pay tribute to the ancestors.<br />
<br />
* Sangbangulsa Grotto - I bet this has something good... This is where monk Hye-Il (964-1053) had lived during the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) <br />
* Jeongbang Waterfall. Associated with eternal life legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongbang_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Cheonjeyeon Waterfall: legend of the nymph and mountain god. And/Or something about seven beautiful nymphs who come out at night. A famous bridge as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonjeyeon_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Jungmun Daepo Coast Jusangjeolli Cliff - hexagonal basalt columns, must be a good story here<br />
<br />
* Yongduam Rock. (Dragon's head). There are two ancient legends to explain the mystery rock formation. According to one, a dragon envoy of the Dragon King was sent to Mt. Halla to retrieve a herb which would give Eternal Youth. But the Mountain God cast the dragon envoy into the sea and turned him to stone. The second legend tells of a dragon who stole the jade bead amulet of the Mountain God. While trying to escape, the Mountain God shot down the dragon with a golden arrow and it fell into the sea, turned to stone. The two-million year old basalt rock formation resembles a partially sumberged dragon, with it's head above water.<br />
<br />
* dolhareubangs - pillar statues of men in hats, mysterious... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang<br />
<br />
* Jeju's Mystery Ghost Roads. Exactly, the same phenomenom as Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick. It's an optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape at the base of Mt. Halla that gives you the impression that a hill is going up when it's actually going down.<br />
<br />
* Seongsan Illchulbong - volcanic crater near seongsan<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules: ===<br />
<br />
We are using a variant of the pulp action RPG, [http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/spiritofthecentury/ Spirit of the Century]. It is changed to include scale to allow for dragon characters, and adding more grit to the conflicts to speed up resolution. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:Rules| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Rules]]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Glossary===<br />
<br />
sowon - official schools (confucian)<br />
sohak - "Western learning" i.e. Catholicism. The Catholics are against ancestral rites.<br />
tonghak - "eastern learning" new korean religion, sparked rebellion in 1860s and again later<br />
yangban - hereditary aristocracy<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1462.html The early US-Korea relations<br />
Excerpt from "A Brief History of the US-Korea Relations Prior to 1945"<br />
Kim Young-Sik, Ph.D.<br />
<br />
* http://www.thesecondlayer.com/gallery/southkorea/jeju/galleryjeju.html Someone's excellent vacation photos with explanations of interesting things, legends, etc.<br />
<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
* Isabella Bird Bishop - travels in Korea, 1890s http://www.ganesha-publishing.com/bird_intro.htm<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
<br />
[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=49529Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-04-22T20:40:00Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Characters */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
<br />
==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor: <br />
* In the Temeraire series, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance. However, he has enormous importance in the world story. His dragon turns out to be one of only a handful of Celestial dragons; he saves England, is adopted by the Emperor of China, and so forth. <br />
* Also taking a note from the movie ''Blood Rain'', the characters will be similarly larger-than-life. <br />
* It will have long episodes which tell the story of how characters become important. <br />
<br />
To reflect this, we will be using a variant of the pulp action RPG, Spirit of the Century. <br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
<br />
Character ideas<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Yong Gi Ja, a [http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jade Jade Dragon], retired from government courier service.<br />
* Bill - Kim Cho Hea, Park Min Bai's niece, a pearl diver.<br />
* Cyn -Park Min Bai, a shaman from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - Bob's character's hatchling dragon. fire breathing. Perky and bouncy.<br />
* Lee - Lee Ho-Fook. 40-ish related to Bob's character. Bitter fisherman. back from foreign lands after absence of 20 years. <br />
* Lee - Catholic priest? <br />
* Liz - Min Ju. Surly teenager. Used to be called "Snotface" and is now called "The Rat". He grew up on the streets, he's a petty criminal, and does odd jobs around town. His mom is a disreputable, abusive drunk. <br />
<br />
* Liz - Yong Dak-Ho, Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. Dak-Ho has a collection of cool ocean stuff as her dragon bling. modern/japanese sympathies. <br />
* Bob - Inheriting the Orange/Citrus farm (the island's traditional tribute to Seoul)<br />
* Bob - Heather's fire breathing dragon.<br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
If we follow the conventions of dragon naming in Novik's China, Chinese dragons would have three-part names starting with "Lung" (meaning "dragon"). Korean dragon names would start with "Yong" if we construct them the same way. Dragon geneologies may become important. For human names, here's an article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name Korean names]. Here is a good table with [http://www.babynamebox.com/korean-baby-names.html some Korean name elements and their meanings]. <br />
<br />
<br />
NPCs<br />
<br />
<br />
* family members. We will need some geneological charts. Many human characters may be part of two main families of Seongsan. Dragon families should be developed as well, though they might be sparser and more scattered.<br />
<br />
* Chul-Sun. "Sarge". A big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword <br />
<br />
* The older smuggler captain<br />
<br />
* The local magistrate (somewhat corrupt, in the smuggler captain's pocket)<br />
<br />
* Must make up yangban family or families<br />
<br />
* Teacher (dragon) at the village fisher dragon school<br />
<br />
===Historical Background===<br />
<br />
Korea in the 1860s was at a turning point. China had been humiliated by the European powers in the Opium Wars (1834-43 and 1856-60), and was still in the throes of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-65). Meanwhile, Japan had just been forced into the Convention of Kanagawa by Admiral Perry's "Black Ships" (1854), but was just beginning its modernization -- the Meiji Restoration would start in 1866. Within our history, the next five decades would see a turnover where Korea went from the Hermit Kingdom in the shadow of China to active occupation by the Japanese -- with a brief period (from 1897 to 1910) of a declared status as an independent empire.<br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Historical Background]]<br />
<br />
===Fictional Background===<br />
<br />
Within the Temeraire world, as with most other points, there is a parallel history. Long ago, the native [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] lived beneath the seas, rivers, and lakes. However, they have been bred with Chinese dragons to form other distinctly Korean dragons that both fly and retain an affinity for water. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:FictionalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Fictional Background]]<br />
<br />
===Local Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
In Confucian tradition merchants are below farmers. But that's changing.. .rising middle/merchant class.<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Strait straits] - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Jeju island's female haenyo divers. These women train from a very young age and can hold their breath for up to two minutes as they dive off shore searching for abalone, octopus, urchins, conch and seaweed. This 2000-year old tradition is now dying out though as the daughters of the haenyo head to the city for easier jobs. The ones still doing it are in their eighties and work to supplement the income of their husbands who farm land. From over 30,000 divers in the 1980's, the number has now dropped to less than 6000, most of whom are over 40.<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles <br />
*Fishing, deep sea<br />
*Oranges, citrus<br />
*Other farming<br />
*Sturdy excellent ponies (yum!)<br />
*Pearls<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Geography===<br />
<br />
Jeju island has a central volcano, Mt. Halla, with crater lakes. There's lots of black lava, caves, waterfalls.<br />
<br />
Our game will begin in Seongsam, near the island of Wu, or Udo, in the east of Jeju. We should have a map of the town and surrounding areas - making up something reasonable.<br />
<br />
Brief description of some scenic locations, with photos:<br />
http://www.chejuinfo.net/tour/tour_e.html<br />
<br />
General region: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=35.85344,127.22168&spn=17.806098,28.432617&om=1<br />
<br />
Closeup from Google satellite map of Seongsam, harbor, and Udo:<br />
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=33.486292,126.921787&spn=0.071727,0.111065&t=k&om=1<br />
<br />
Map showing elevations, very general, color:<br />
http://www1.korea-np.co.jp/pk/124th_issue/Chejudo.jpg<br />
<br />
===Myths and Magic===<br />
<br />
* Hwanung and the bear woman. She became human through prayer, mugwort, and eating a lot of garlic. Their son is Tangun (semi divine, lawgiver) http://www.taekwondobible.com/korculture/spirit/myth.html<br />
I'd like to find out if the bear woman had a name! (Liz)<br />
<br />
* Jeju island origin myth. According to the founding myth of Samseonghyeol, Jeju was uninhabited until three divine men emerged from the ground at Moheunghyeol, now located on the northern foot of Hallasan. Samseonghyeol Shrine, This shrine houses three small caves from which, according to Jeju folklore, three god deities emerged and went on to create the three provinces of Jeju island and populate the island. The three young men emerged from the caves and lived a happy life together on the island. A king on the mainland was visited by a messenger who told him to send his three daughter princesses on a boat to the island with livestock and seeds. The three daughters taught the men on the island how to farm. They were married and spent their honeymoon nights within the caves. Afterwards, each of the three men shot an arrow into the air. Wherever their arrow landed, they were to make their homes. Thus, the three provinces and kingdoms of Jeju island were created. The shrine also houses a rock that bears the marking of an arrowhead where one of the arrows was said to have landed. On a special holiday on Jeju, the direct descendants of these three couples, which inlcudes the majority of Jeju's population gather together at this Shrine and pay tribute to the ancestors.<br />
<br />
* Sangbangulsa Grotto - I bet this has something good... This is where monk Hye-Il (964-1053) had lived during the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) <br />
* Jeongbang Waterfall. Associated with eternal life legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongbang_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Cheonjeyeon Waterfall: legend of the nymph and mountain god. And/Or something about seven beautiful nymphs who come out at night. A famous bridge as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonjeyeon_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Jungmun Daepo Coast Jusangjeolli Cliff - hexagonal basalt columns, must be a good story here<br />
<br />
* Yongduam Rock. (Dragon's head). There are two ancient legends to explain the mystery rock formation. According to one, a dragon envoy of the Dragon King was sent to Mt. Halla to retrieve a herb which would give Eternal Youth. But the Mountain God cast the dragon envoy into the sea and turned him to stone. The second legend tells of a dragon who stole the jade bead amulet of the Mountain God. While trying to escape, the Mountain God shot down the dragon with a golden arrow and it fell into the sea, turned to stone. The two-million year old basalt rock formation resembles a partially sumberged dragon, with it's head above water.<br />
<br />
* dolhareubangs - pillar statues of men in hats, mysterious... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang<br />
<br />
* Jeju's Mystery Ghost Roads. Exactly, the same phenomenom as Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick. It's an optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape at the base of Mt. Halla that gives you the impression that a hill is going up when it's actually going down.<br />
<br />
* Seongsan Illchulbong - volcanic crater near seongsan<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules: ===<br />
<br />
We are using a variant of the pulp action RPG, [http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/spiritofthecentury/ Spirit of the Century]. It is changed to include scale to allow for dragon characters, and adding more grit to the conflicts to speed up resolution. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:Rules| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Rules]]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Glossary===<br />
<br />
sowon - official schools (confucian)<br />
sohak - "Western learning" i.e. Catholicism. The Catholics are against ancestral rites.<br />
tonghak - "eastern learning" new korean religion, sparked rebellion in 1860s and again later<br />
yangban - hereditary aristocracy<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1462.html The early US-Korea relations<br />
Excerpt from "A Brief History of the US-Korea Relations Prior to 1945"<br />
Kim Young-Sik, Ph.D.<br />
<br />
* http://www.thesecondlayer.com/gallery/southkorea/jeju/galleryjeju.html Someone's excellent vacation photos with explanations of interesting things, legends, etc.<br />
<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
* Isabella Bird Bishop - travels in Korea, 1890s http://www.ganesha-publishing.com/bird_intro.htm<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
<br />
[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=49528Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-04-22T20:37:46Z<p>Liz Henry: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
<br />
==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor: <br />
* In the Temeraire series, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance. However, he has enormous importance in the world story. His dragon turns out to be one of only a handful of Celestial dragons; he saves England, is adopted by the Emperor of China, and so forth. <br />
* Also taking a note from the movie ''Blood Rain'', the characters will be similarly larger-than-life. <br />
* It will have long episodes which tell the story of how characters become important. <br />
<br />
To reflect this, we will be using a variant of the pulp action RPG, Spirit of the Century. <br />
<br />
==Characters==<br />
<br />
Character ideas<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Yong Gi Ja, a [http://www.temeraire.org/wiki/index.php?title=Jade Jade Dragon], retired from government courier service.<br />
* Bill - Kim Cho Hea, Park Min Bai's niece, a pearl diver.<br />
* Cyn -Park Min Bai, a shaman from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - Bob's character's hatchling dragon. fire breathing. Perky and bouncy.<br />
* Lee - Lee Ho-Fook. 40-ish related to Bob's character. Bitter fisherman. back from foreign lands after absence of 20 years. <br />
* Lee - Catholic priest? <br />
* Liz - Min Ju. Surly teenager. Used to be called "Snotface" and is now called "The Rat". He grew up on the streets, he's a petty criminal, and does odd jobs around town. His mom is a disreputable, abusive drunk. <br />
<br />
* Liz - Yong Dak-Ho, Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. Dak-Ho has a collection of cool ocean stuff as her dragon bling. modern/japanese sympathies. <br />
* Bob - Inheriting the Orange/Citrus farm (the island's traditional tribute to Seoul)<br />
* Bob - Heather's fire breathing dragon.<br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
If we follow the conventions of dragon naming in Novik's China, Chinese dragons would have three-part names starting with "Lung" (meaning "dragon"). Korean dragon names would start with "Yong" if we construct them the same way. Dragon geneologies may become important. For human names, here's an article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name Korean names]. Here is a good table with [http://www.babynamebox.com/korean-baby-names.html some Korean name elements and their meanings]. <br />
<br />
<br />
NPCs<br />
<br />
* Chul-Sun. "Sarge". A big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword <br />
<br />
* The older smuggler captain<br />
<br />
* The local magistrate (somewhat corrupt, in the smuggler captain's pocket)<br />
<br />
* Must make up yangban family or families<br />
<br />
* Teacher (dragon) at the village fisher dragon school<br />
<br />
===Historical Background===<br />
<br />
Korea in the 1860s was at a turning point. China had been humiliated by the European powers in the Opium Wars (1834-43 and 1856-60), and was still in the throes of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-65). Meanwhile, Japan had just been forced into the Convention of Kanagawa by Admiral Perry's "Black Ships" (1854), but was just beginning its modernization -- the Meiji Restoration would start in 1866. Within our history, the next five decades would see a turnover where Korea went from the Hermit Kingdom in the shadow of China to active occupation by the Japanese -- with a brief period (from 1897 to 1910) of a declared status as an independent empire.<br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:HistoricalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Historical Background]]<br />
<br />
===Fictional Background===<br />
<br />
Within the Temeraire world, as with most other points, there is a parallel history. Long ago, the native [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] lived beneath the seas, rivers, and lakes. However, they have been bred with Chinese dragons to form other distinctly Korean dragons that both fly and retain an affinity for water. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:FictionalBackground| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Fictional Background]]<br />
<br />
===Local Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
In Confucian tradition merchants are below farmers. But that's changing.. .rising middle/merchant class.<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Strait straits] - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Jeju island's female haenyo divers. These women train from a very young age and can hold their breath for up to two minutes as they dive off shore searching for abalone, octopus, urchins, conch and seaweed. This 2000-year old tradition is now dying out though as the daughters of the haenyo head to the city for easier jobs. The ones still doing it are in their eighties and work to supplement the income of their husbands who farm land. From over 30,000 divers in the 1980's, the number has now dropped to less than 6000, most of whom are over 40.<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles <br />
*Fishing, deep sea<br />
*Oranges, citrus<br />
*Other farming<br />
*Sturdy excellent ponies (yum!)<br />
*Pearls<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Geography===<br />
<br />
Jeju island has a central volcano, Mt. Halla, with crater lakes. There's lots of black lava, caves, waterfalls.<br />
<br />
Our game will begin in Seongsam, near the island of Wu, or Udo, in the east of Jeju. We should have a map of the town and surrounding areas - making up something reasonable.<br />
<br />
Brief description of some scenic locations, with photos:<br />
http://www.chejuinfo.net/tour/tour_e.html<br />
<br />
General region: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=5&ll=35.85344,127.22168&spn=17.806098,28.432617&om=1<br />
<br />
Closeup from Google satellite map of Seongsam, harbor, and Udo:<br />
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=33.486292,126.921787&spn=0.071727,0.111065&t=k&om=1<br />
<br />
Map showing elevations, very general, color:<br />
http://www1.korea-np.co.jp/pk/124th_issue/Chejudo.jpg<br />
<br />
===Myths and Magic===<br />
<br />
* Hwanung and the bear woman. She became human through prayer, mugwort, and eating a lot of garlic. Their son is Tangun (semi divine, lawgiver) http://www.taekwondobible.com/korculture/spirit/myth.html<br />
I'd like to find out if the bear woman had a name! (Liz)<br />
<br />
* Jeju island origin myth. According to the founding myth of Samseonghyeol, Jeju was uninhabited until three divine men emerged from the ground at Moheunghyeol, now located on the northern foot of Hallasan. Samseonghyeol Shrine, This shrine houses three small caves from which, according to Jeju folklore, three god deities emerged and went on to create the three provinces of Jeju island and populate the island. The three young men emerged from the caves and lived a happy life together on the island. A king on the mainland was visited by a messenger who told him to send his three daughter princesses on a boat to the island with livestock and seeds. The three daughters taught the men on the island how to farm. They were married and spent their honeymoon nights within the caves. Afterwards, each of the three men shot an arrow into the air. Wherever their arrow landed, they were to make their homes. Thus, the three provinces and kingdoms of Jeju island were created. The shrine also houses a rock that bears the marking of an arrowhead where one of the arrows was said to have landed. On a special holiday on Jeju, the direct descendants of these three couples, which inlcudes the majority of Jeju's population gather together at this Shrine and pay tribute to the ancestors.<br />
<br />
* Sangbangulsa Grotto - I bet this has something good... This is where monk Hye-Il (964-1053) had lived during the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) <br />
* Jeongbang Waterfall. Associated with eternal life legend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongbang_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Cheonjeyeon Waterfall: legend of the nymph and mountain god. And/Or something about seven beautiful nymphs who come out at night. A famous bridge as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonjeyeon_Waterfall<br />
<br />
* Jungmun Daepo Coast Jusangjeolli Cliff - hexagonal basalt columns, must be a good story here<br />
<br />
* Yongduam Rock. (Dragon's head). There are two ancient legends to explain the mystery rock formation. According to one, a dragon envoy of the Dragon King was sent to Mt. Halla to retrieve a herb which would give Eternal Youth. But the Mountain God cast the dragon envoy into the sea and turned him to stone. The second legend tells of a dragon who stole the jade bead amulet of the Mountain God. While trying to escape, the Mountain God shot down the dragon with a golden arrow and it fell into the sea, turned to stone. The two-million year old basalt rock formation resembles a partially sumberged dragon, with it's head above water.<br />
<br />
* dolhareubangs - pillar statues of men in hats, mysterious... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang<br />
<br />
* Jeju's Mystery Ghost Roads. Exactly, the same phenomenom as Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick. It's an optical illusion created by the surrounding landscape at the base of Mt. Halla that gives you the impression that a hill is going up when it's actually going down.<br />
<br />
* Seongsan Illchulbong - volcanic crater near seongsan<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
<br />
===Rules: ===<br />
<br />
We are using a variant of the pulp action RPG, [http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/spiritofthecentury/ Spirit of the Century]. It is changed to include scale to allow for dragon characters, and adding more grit to the conflicts to speed up resolution. <br />
<br />
Details in [[DragonsOfTheYellowSea:Rules| Dragons of the Yellow Sea: Rules]]<br />
<br />
<br />
===Glossary===<br />
<br />
sowon - official schools (confucian)<br />
sohak - "Western learning" i.e. Catholicism. The Catholics are against ancestral rites.<br />
tonghak - "eastern learning" new korean religion, sparked rebellion in 1860s and again later<br />
yangban - hereditary aristocracy<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1462.html The early US-Korea relations<br />
Excerpt from "A Brief History of the US-Korea Relations Prior to 1945"<br />
Kim Young-Sik, Ph.D.<br />
<br />
* http://www.thesecondlayer.com/gallery/southkorea/jeju/galleryjeju.html Someone's excellent vacation photos with explanations of interesting things, legends, etc.<br />
<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
* Isabella Bird Bishop - travels in Korea, 1890s http://www.ganesha-publishing.com/bird_intro.htm<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
<br />
[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=44202Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-24T16:03:43Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
<br />
==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe Spirit of the Century. We will run one-shots to test out systems before picking one.<br />
<br />
<br />
Character ideas:<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - A pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag as an older woman to . An Okinawan Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - An emissary from the King, working undercover or overtly seeking to negotiate with the rebels? Or a Shaman spoil to Lee's Catholic priest.<br />
* Cyn - A matriarch from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - A Shaman.<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection of cool ocean stuff as my dragon bling.<br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
If we follow the conventions of dragon naming in Novik's China, Chinese dragons would have three-part names starting with "Lung" (meaning "dragon"). Korean dragon names would start with "Yong" if we construct them the same way. Dragon geneologies may become important. For human names, here's an article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_name Korean names].<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
<br />
[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=44199Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-24T15:58:45Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Image:koreandragon01.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Korean Dragon]]<br />
<br />
==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe Spirit of the Century. We will run one-shots to test out systems before picking one.<br />
<br />
<br />
Character ideas:<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - A pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag as an older woman to . An Okinawan Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - An emissary from the King, working undercover or overtly seeking to negotiate with the rebels? Or a Shaman spoil to Lee's Catholic priest.<br />
* Cyn - A matriarch from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - A Shaman.<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection of cool ocean stuff as my dragon bling.<br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* Heather - A Chinese warrior who deserted during (after? not sure) the Taiping Rebellion and later fled with her dragon across the sea to Jeju-do.<br />
* Heather - A feral dragon native to Jeju-do.<br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
From the movie "Blood Rain" from [http://www.hancinema.net/ Han Cinema]<br />
<br />
[[Image:bloodrain01.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain02.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain03.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
[[Image:bloodrain04.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Blood Rain]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Campaign Setup]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43685Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T06:50:50Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Quotes: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe something else.<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - A pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag as an older woman to . An Okinawan Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - An emissary from the King, working undercover or overtly seeking to negotiate with the rebels? Or a Shaman spoil to Lee's Catholic priest.<br />
* Cyn - A matriarch from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - A Shaman.<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection of cool ocean stuff as my dragon bling.<br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
* "I'm just saying, never destroy the load-bearing walls of the building you are IN." - Lee<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]<br />
[IMage:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/photo4253.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43680Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T06:25:39Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Quotes: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe something else.<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - A pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag as an older woman to . An Okinawan Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - An emissary from the King, working undercover or overtly seeking to negotiate with the rebels? Or a Shaman spoil to Lee's Catholic priest.<br />
* Cyn - A matriarch from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - A Shaman.<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection of cool ocean stuff as my dragon bling.<br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
* Madeline: "Wow. Awesome. Did they just kill a chicken, live?"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]<br />
[IMage:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/photo4253.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43675Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T06:20:24Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe something else.<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - A pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag as an older woman to . An Okinawan Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - An emissary from the King, working undercover or overtly seeking to negotiate with the rebels? Or a Shaman spoil to Lee's Catholic priest.<br />
* Cyn - A matriarch from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - A Shaman.<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection of cool ocean stuff as my dragon bling.<br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]<br />
[IMage:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/photo4253.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43670Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T06:16:03Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Sources: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe something else.<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - A pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag as an older woman to . An Okinawan Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - An emissary from the King, working undercover or overtly seeking to negotiate with the rebels? Or a Shaman spoil to Lee's Catholic priest.<br />
* Cyn - A matriarch from Jeju-do.<br />
* Cyn - A Shaman.<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - ''Blood Rain''. Takes place in 1808 in Korea. A commissioner from the mainland comes to a small island to investigate a murder and arson case which turns out to be one of a series of vengeance murders. Great complicated plot and characters!<br />
<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]<br />
[IMage:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/photo4253.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43662Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:42:41Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Images */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe something else.<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Okinawan pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag. Think Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - Shaman<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]<br />
[IMage:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/photo4253.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43661Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:34:33Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. The world is loosely based on Naomi Novik's ''Temeraire'' alternate history series of novels; ''His Majesty's Dragon'', ''Throne of Jade'', and ''Black Powder War''.<br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
Game system: Maybe Serenity? Maybe something else.<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Okinawan pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag. Think Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - Shaman<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
* GM: John Kim <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43660Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:28:32Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Background */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Okinawan pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag. Think Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - Shaman<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
*Paper manufacturing... secrets of (blood rain)<br />
*Textiles -<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43659Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:27:50Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Quotes: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Okinawan pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag. Think Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - Shaman<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43658Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:27:27Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Quotes: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Okinawan pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag. Think Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - Shaman<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
>Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
>A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley. Nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
>If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%, how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
>Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
>Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
>Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43657Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:26:48Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Quotes: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Okinawan pirate, shipwrecked on Jeju-do, wants a dragon, potentially goes in drag. Think Jack Sparow.<br />
* Bill - Shaman<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
* Scene from Blood Rain:<br />
Official: "a 60 bo circle piece of land is insribed with a perfect pentagon.<br />
A 3-square bo plot of land yield 30 doi of barley.<br />
nine farmers give the landowner 80% of their barley harvest.<br />
If due to a drought the yield were reduced to 30%,<br />
how much would the landowner recieve?"<br />
Old guy: "That's quite a challenge.<br />
Evil guy from village:"It's 34 bags, isn't it?"<br />
Official: "using trigonometry and statistics that's the answer but that's not the answer my father wanted"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43655Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:16:13Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Images */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniminiphoto4241.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43654Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:13:53Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Images */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4239.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43653Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:13:05Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Images */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43652Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:12:50Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Images */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43651Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:12:25Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Images */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[Image:http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43650Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:10:51Z<p>Liz Henry: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior<br />
<br />
===Images===<br />
[http://www.hancinema.net/photos/miniphoto4232.jpg]</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43649Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:07:05Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Background */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
some kind of animistic syncretic buddhist thing - shamanic/priest etc. were women<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43648Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:05:57Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Background */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
Paper manufacturing... secrets (blood rain)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43647Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:05:28Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Sources: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks<br />
* movie - Blood Rain<br />
* movie (not right time period or place but good) Musan The Warrior</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43646Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:01:00Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Quotes: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
* Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
* Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43645Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T05:00:32Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - Japanese spy <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43644Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:58:53Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
General thoughts on game flavor<br />
- episodes, how characters become pivotal<br />
- Temeraire, Lawrence is a ship captain, not a tiny ship, but not an admiral, of medium importance<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge. could have a dragon.<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - a big hulking military battle veteran/ex bandit/secret military genius/sergeant who became a farmer and swore never to pick up another sword<br />
* Liz - maybe Lee's fisher dragon with leanings towards amateur naturalist/science. i have a collection <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43643Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:52:34Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Timeline of events===<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
(Yi nong-nyun), intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Background===<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===Dragon ecology===<br />
<br />
* Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
* Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
* Agriculture - flatlands <br />
* Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
* Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
* Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43642Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:50:39Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China, lasts around 15 years. Ideals of equality. dragons too!<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
Yi nong-nyun, intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43641Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:49:28Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
* Lee - Catholic priest <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Liz - <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
Yi nong-nyun, intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43640Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:48:09Z<p>Liz Henry: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
* Lee - <br />
* Liz -<br />
* Liz - <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
Yi nong-nyun, intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Margin Outlaws of the Marsh]/Water Margin as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea and the wrong time period... it's the coolest adventure, hero tales, and a rebellion in the mountains, where dragons would fit right in.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43639Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:42:26Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Sources: */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
* Lee - <br />
* Liz -<br />
* Liz - <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
Yi nong-nyun, intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the Marshes of Mount Liang (Outlaws of the Marsh) as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
* Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
* Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
* Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
* Korea: An Introduction <br />
* A Handbook of Korea<br />
* Sensational Knitted Socks</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43638Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:41:52Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human... We're going to play on Jeju-do island in the straits. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
* Lee - <br />
* Liz -<br />
* Liz - <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
Yi nong-nyun, intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the Marshes of Mount Liang (Outlaws of the Marsh) as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"<br />
<br />
<br />
===Sources: ===<br />
<br />
Wikipedia (list pages)<br />
Korea: Its History and Culture<br />
Art Treasures of Seoul<br />
Korea: An Introduction <br />
A Handbook of Korea</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43637Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:39:11Z<p>Liz Henry: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should not play their own dragon or human...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
* Madeline - <br />
* Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
* Bill -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Cyn -<br />
* Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
* Lee - <br />
* Liz -<br />
* Liz - <br />
* Bob -<br />
* Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
Paek nak-sin oppressive military commander. <br />
Yi nong-nyun, intellectual who led the rebellion.<br />
Investigator sent to the scene.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
Liz's note - I'm thinking of the Marshes of Mount Liang (Outlaws of the Marsh) as an inspiration for this game as well though it's China not Korea.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43636Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:35:13Z<p>Liz Henry: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea. We will play at least 2 characters each. Players should be each others' dragons. <br />
<br />
Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol Han Solo.<br />
Madeline - <br />
Bill - Jack Sparrow<br />
Bill -<br />
Cyn -<br />
Cyn -<br />
Lee - Bitter fisherman seeking revenge<br />
Lee - <br />
Liz -<br />
Liz - <br />
Bob -<br />
Bob - <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju Jeju]<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Peninsula#Climate Climate]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_dragon Korean dragons] <br />
<br />
===Quotes:===<br />
<br />
Bill: "He could be a lady pirate, then."<br />
Everyone, suddenly: "Dragons love bling! OMG they DO love bling!"</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43635Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:29:08Z<p>Liz Henry: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea.<br />
<br />
Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
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1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
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1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghak_Peasant_Revolution Donghak rebellion]<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
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Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
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'''Background'''<br />
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Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
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Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power<br />
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'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
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Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
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Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43634Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:27:11Z<p>Liz Henry: /* Dragons of the Yellow Sea */</p>
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<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
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The players will be humans and dragons who are part of the peasant rebellion in Korea.<br />
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Madeline - leans towards playing an outsider, maybe a Mongol<br />
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'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea.<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
Jeju-do (Cheju) Island to the south in the straits - 17th cent. period of taxes where men couldn't dive for pearls; women then did; women gained more economic and political power<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)</div>Liz Henryhttps://wiki.rpg.net/index.php?title=Dragons_of_the_Yellow_Sea&diff=43633Dragons of the Yellow Sea2007-02-18T04:23:25Z<p>Liz Henry: beginning of background info, preliminary discussion</p>
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<div>==Dragons of the Yellow Sea==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline of events'''<br />
<br />
1850 - The Taiping Rebellion in China.<br />
<br />
1862 - Peasant rebellion in Korea.<br />
Tonghak, religious movement, equality<br />
<br />
Around this time there is a 10 year old king whose father is Regent.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Background'''<br />
<br />
Government & official reading is in Chinese. <br />
Popular stuff, signs, etc in Hangul<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Dragon ecology'''<br />
<br />
Transport - buses! cargo!<br />
Herding, pastoral, goats - flatlands and mountains<br />
Agriculture - flatlands <br />
Fishing - deep sea fishers, giant tuna, coastal<br />
<br />
Mountain dragons - in lakes - wise dragons and bandits<br />
Korean cockatrice - kye-ryong (Chariot-pulling beasts from legend). (Kingdom of Silla)</div>Liz Henry