Sengoku (role-playing game)

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Sengoku: Chanbara Roleplaying in Feudal Japan is a Samurai role-playing game, created by Anthony J. Bryant and Mark Arsenault and published by Gold Rush Games. The setting for the game is 16th century Japan. The tone can be realistic, heroic as in Akira Kurosawa films, or superheroic as in many manga comicbooks.

Sengoku comes as a single book. It uses the Fuzion rules system, which is highly-rated for flexibility but can be difficult to learn.

The game is striking for the great volume of well-researched background material that it includes, perhaps at the expense of clarity of the rules. There are detailed descriptions of society, weapons, language, locations, etc., a comprehensive filmography, and quotations scattered throughout the book to add "flavor".

The creators' original intention was to publish a new version of the Bushido role-playing game but for legal reasons this proved impossible, necessitating the creation of a completely new game.^{[citation needed]}

A revised edition of Sengoku was published in 2002.