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Charts 1-4: Criminal Ratings

C Level 4- Incarceration and Exile
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a Jurisdiction Limit: Prefecture; wanted until served
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r CRIME DESCRIPTION PUNISHABLE BY:
Unlawful killing of one human being by an- Serve 1D20x2 days in gold mines/Red

other without malice aforethought Light District (Female Characters only);
Odds & Evens roll for Banishment or exile
Manslaughter
(Samurai roll Odds & Evens for Kofu kin-
ban)

Attacks that result in the loss of a body part or Serve 1D20x3 days in gold mines/Red
limb or violence against groups of +5 people. Light District (Female Characters only);
Odds & Evens roll for Banishment or exile
Mayhem
(Samurai roll Odds & Evens for Kofu kin-
ban)

Level 5- Death Penalty Criminal Rating Points to Remember

Jurisdiction Limit: Region; wanted until served GMs, make a point to remember that characters do
not earn a Criminal Rating unless the crime they
The Level 5 Criminal Rating is reserved for charac- commit is both witnessed and reported. Characters
ter’s who’s crimes are against figure heads of the who see persons of interest attempting to report a
Japanese Shogunate. Any crime committed against crime may eliminate those witnesses and not receive
characters in power illicit the death penalty. This a criminal rating because the crime did not get report-
level is irreversible and reaches throughout the entire ed. Crime scenes that are discovered are not reported
region. Character’s who turn themselves in receive because there is no character to associate or connect
one of the many ways of death, whereas characters the act.
who are Samurai receive the Death Penalty through
Seppuku. Characters who achieve a Level 5 criminal
rating may also become a hunted criminals where the
Emperor’s Executioner, Shin Kuno (see the Ninja vs
Samurai PRG book #4: The Kushihara Samurai Dojo
characters section), who will hunt the Criminal Rat-
ing Level 5character throughout Japan.

Shino Kuno

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