Roleplaying
Tools for emoting, speaking, and physically inhabiting a scene in the Àolǎng Empire.
Read guideInformation
How to read the world around you, check your standing, find other players, and look up buildings in a city.
Read guideStats & Skills
How approaches, stat blocks, dice rolls, qi dice, and style abilities fit together.
Read guideCombat
How fights resolve, the quickmenu, tactical stances, the hex map, and how to recover afterward.
Read guideStealth Missions
Creating heists and infiltrations, opposing them, and the alarm and hostage systems.
Read guideSociety Events
Throwing balls, banquets, and parties; subtypes, grading, and the fashion system.
Read guideJianghu Adventures
Setting out into the wilds: disguises, costs, the fate system, and destiny.
Read guideAccessibility
Accessibility features for screen readers, motion sensitivity, and combat aids.
Read guideZhūwān
Zhūwān, Pearl Bay, is the largest city in the Àolǎng Empire and the only place where all five kingdoms meet the rest of the world. The Jīnhé river empties here into a deep natural harbour, and the docks have always been loud with the business of people who have something to sell or something to hide. Inside its walled peninsula a traveller can shop the daily-lottery Floating Market, soak away wounds at the Cuìquán mineral springs, sail out to the Lotus Boat for a private suite, dance into noble society at the Crystal Ballroom, or step inside one of six foreign embassies whose ambassadors smile over treaties the Empire signed under duress. South of the river lie the South Ruins, the burned remains of the lost half of the city, still considered cursed forty-seven years after the Fire of Zhūwān.
Read guideÀolǎng Culture Guide
A primer on the setting for players coming in from outside it, especially Western players.
Read guideFive Kingdoms Themes Guide
The narrative tones and dramatic flavours Romance of Five Kingdoms is built to play in.
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