The ''Usagi Yojimbo Role-Playing Game'' is the second

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to be published based on Stan Sakai's Eisner-award-winning comic-book series '' Usagi Yojimbo''. (The first, '' Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game'', was written by Greg Stolze and published in 1998 by

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.) The 2005 game is written by

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and Pieter van Hiel, published by Sanguine Productions in 2005. The game is set in a fantasy version of Japan in the Edo period (beginning of the 17th century) and uses a heavily modified variant of the systems used in Sanguine Productions' other role-playing games ''Ironclaw'', ''

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'', and '' Albedo: Platinum Catalyst''. In late October 2006, a version of the 2005 game translated into Spanish was released. A "second" edition under Sanguine Productions was successfully Kickstarted in 2019.

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