Every Single Samurai in Dungeons and Dragons
As part of my crawl through the history of Dragon Magazine, something I have noticed is that from an early age the Gaijin Gamer has always been particularly fascinated by the martial culture of Glorious Nippon. I can understand this: Samurai movies are fucking awesome. However, that often bumps up against the fact that you have Very White game designers making some...choice decisions. Even in the era of sensitivity readers, it can be interesting to look and see what exactly the fantasy of being a Samurai actually is, as opposed to a knight or a barbarian or even the actual people who held the title. For most of their history, samurai served largely as mounted archers, it's just that that's a lot harder to like...film. Plus swordfights are cool. Xanathar's Guide to Everything (2017) "The Samurai is a fighter who draws on an implacable fighting spirit to overcome enemies. A samurai’s resolve is nearly unbreakable, and the enemies in a samurai’s path have two choices: yi...
