Take the tour ×  We were planning on running a 3.5 campaign with
an oriental-themed party: Samurai, Ninja, Shugenja, Wu Jen etc.
There are all sorts of story reasons in place to make sense of
this: a quasi-oriental dwarven empire (with a gnome underclass)
for the characters to come from, giving them variously reasons
for loyalty to a cause, reasons to resent NPCs or each other,
etc.  But since making this plan, we've started playing some
Pathfinder and so far we like it. It cleans up some of the cruft
and gives each class more customisation options, especially with
the Advanced book out now. So when planning a major new campaign
that's likely to last a whole year in real time, that's probably
the system we'd choose.  Can you suggest class features, traits
etc to produce characters matching oriental archetypes? I don't
necessarily mean duplicating the 3.5 Ninja class so much as the
idea of a ninja in popular fiction (and yes, anime, but avoiding
the obvious) - as well as archetypes that haven't specifically
be