J'ouvre cette section pour vous parler du jdr Qin, que je compte vous proposer bientôt.
Je sens déjà venir vos questions :

- C'est quoi ?
- Qin (prononcer "Tchin"), c'est un jdr qui se passe dans un univers inspiré de la Chine médiévale, avec des héros aux pouvoirs extraordinaires, du merveilleux... Ca peut se jouer de différentes manières, je compte l'utiliser pour faire jouer les wu xia pian.
- Wu quoi ???
- Wu (martial) xia (chevalerie) pian (film) : films de chevalerie chinois, avec des gens qui sautent partout accompagnés de plein de bruitages. Je proposerai d'en voir un ou deux.
Ce sera donc un jdr oriental, coloré, amusant, léger, avec des vrais morceaux de wu xia dedans (ninjas , sifus (mentors), héritières en détresse, complots abracadabrantesques... le tout ponctué de washou washa wishhhh). Un jeu où on ne prend pas un objet (on le dégaine avec un bruitage), où les monastères sont aussi des écoles d'arts martiaux, où les combats se décident sur des techniques improbables, et où les personnages se retrouvent souvent à 3m du sol, le tout saupoudré d'une pincée de jolie magie honteuse.
- Ok, et on joue quoi là-dedans ?
- Des héros : des gens qui exerçaient n'importe quel métier : du garde du corps à l'instituteur, en passant par le sage du village ou l'écuyer... et qui ont des capacités hors du commun (dans n'importe quel domaine). Et forcément, vous allez être entrainés dans des aventures exotiques et variées.

Dans ce topic, présentation générale du jeu avec des textes d'ambiance, des vidéos... et réponses aux questions.
Et c'est aussi le topic où les gens intéressés sont priés de se déclarer.

Un ptit texte d'ambiance sur l'origine du monde ; ce n'est pas la version classique dans Qin, mais elle est tellement jolie :

The Legend of Pangu

Sometimes, around the fire, the village elders tell another story of how the world was made, one you should know…
In the beginning there was nothing, only an egg, floating in the void. After many thousands of years, the egg hatched and the being within, the giant named Pangu, awoke from a long, deep sleep.
From the shattered fragments of the eggshell came the universe, the light rising and becoming Heaven, the heavy matter falling and becoming the Earth. Pangu planted his feet on the Earth and caused it to sink yet further. He stretched, touched Heaven with his fingertips and raised it still higher. The giant stayed in this position for ten thousand years or more, and at last Heaven and Earth were divided forever.
Pangu became tired and decided to sleep. Before falling into sleep, he divided his own body. His breath rose and became the wind. His deep, powerful voice became the growl of thunder. He threw his left eye to the Heaven and made the Sun. His right eye followed, and became the Moon. His four limbs marked the four corners of the world. His torso was divided and became the five sacred mountains.
And so it was that the ten thousand beings and things all proceeded from the body of the giant Pangu. Pearl and jade came from his marrow, stone and metal from his teeth and bones. His blood became the rivers, his sweat the rain and the marshes. And man, so proud and arrogant, emerged from the countless parasites crawling on the skin of the First Being.

Deux histoires de personnages dans Qin :

White Tiger, Eternal Hunger

In the northwestern region of Chu, not far from the border with Qi, is a restaurant known as the Tao of the Full Stomach. It is run by a man of quasi-legendary renown known only by his nickname of White Tiger, Eternal Hunger. The great reputation of this restaurant is a measure of the extraordinary culinary skills of this man.
The story of the life of White Tiger, Eternal Hunger is an unusual one. The son of a noble of the court of Chu by a woman of the southern tribes, his half-barbarian origins gave him smooth skin and relatively rare height. As a child he studied swordsmanship and soon became a champion ; it is even rumored that White Tiger can only be injured by a blade if he so wishes. But in addition to his reputation as a swordsman whose skills were worthy of the best disciples of the Twelve Heavenly Ones, the legend of White Tiger is built on his unparalleled culinary gifts.

A genuine gourmet with a refined palate, White Tiger found that he was only rarely satisfied with the dishes he was served. So one day he decided that he would prepare all his own meals and thus only have himself to blame for any disappointments. He developed a genuine passion for all aspects of the art of cooking: devising dishes, combining ingredients, and creating new flavors quickly became an obsession, to the despair of his father, who had hoped for him to become an official. Wishing to perfect his skills, White Tiger undertook a pilgrimage throughout all the Warring States in order to learn as many recipes as possible, to discover local specialties and to learn from the finest chefs of the Zhongguo. When his journey came to an end, he purchased a building in the North of his native land and built it into the most renowned restaurant in the region, possibly even in all the Warring States. For word of White Tiger’s extraordinary gifts, and his unequalled expertise in the art of cooking, soon spread across borders and throughout the Zhongguo. Kings and heads of noble families offered him untold riches to take charge of their private kitchens, but White Tiger has always chosen to keep his humble restaurant, which never has a spare table and attracts food lovers from the four corners of the Zhongguo.


Kuan Hong-si

Once a highly-respected physician of Handan, Kuan Hong-si gave up his old life after losing his beloved wife to an epidemic. Realizing the emptiness of his life in society, he chose to abandon everything for the life of a wandering physician. Taking his daughter Mei Shi with him, he took to the highways and byways of the Zhongguo to treat the poorest of the poor.
For nearly ten years now, Kuan Hong-si has lived like a common vagrant. He blames himself for having imposed such a life on young Mei Shi, who has now almost reached adulthood, and seeks to find her a husband who might give her the life of comfort and ease which she deserves. But the girl, now an experienced and highly-skilled nurse, does not want to leave her ageing father, and rejects any suitor that he finds.
Hong-si is over fifty, but his strict health regime means he is still as fit as ever. He carries no weapons, but his detailed knowledge of anatomy makes him an expert boxer, able to dislocate limbs. He is convinced he has many more years ahead of him, and fully intends to use them to bring the benefits of medicine to the common people for so long as Heaven shall allow him to live.