''Blood of the Yakuza'' is a module in the ''

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Plot summary

''Blood of the Yakuza'' is an ''

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and adventure scenario set on the island of Wa and port of Nakamura. The module contains details Yakuza gangs and the important families and temples, as well as the major non-player characters of the city. As the module was based on the '' Kara Tur'' boxed set, its information is older than the information about Wa found in such product lines as the ''

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Publication history

''Blood of the Yakuza'' was written by

David "Zeb" Cook David "Zeb" Cook is an American game designer, best known for his work at TSR, Inc., where he was employed for over fifteen years. Cook designed several games, wrote the '' Expert Set'' for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', worked as lead designer of the ...

, with a cover by Jim Holloway, and was published by TSR in 1987 as a forty-eight page book and a sixteen-page book, with a large color map and an outer folder.

Reception

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reviewed ''Blood of the Yakuza'' for '' Dragon'' magazine No. 134. Bambra felt that the island of Wa "draws its inspiration from the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan and presents a more centralized and less war-torn period". He concluded that ''Blood of the Yakuza'' is another excellent addition to the Oriental line.

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