History TabletopGame / FengShui

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The Jammers and the New Simian Army.

** Meanwhile, the Spy archetype from [=PS1=] can spend a fortune point to have people tell them something they shouldn't. The game recommends using it when captured, to induce gloating in villains.

** Meanwhile, the Spy archetype from PS1 can spend a fortune point to have people tell them something they shouldn't. The game recommends using it when captured, to induce gloating in villains.

* DeaderThanDead: If you get hit by Ming I's dreaded Arm of Darkness and fail the Death Check that you have to make because of it, you are ''gone.''

* VillainHasAPoint: The Buro isn't entirely wrong; they have ended world hunger (by forcing everyone to eat [[FutureFoodIsArtificial crappy artificial food]]), sexism and racism (at the cost of reducing overall sexual freedom by effectively banning same-race relations) and income inequality (by reducing ''everyone's'' standard of living to barely above poverty). The problem is that they're enforcing their new equality through mass murder, and they're also dependent on the Architects of the Flesh and ''their'' truly horrifying evil.

*** When they manage to 'free' their time period in ''Feng Shui 2'' through the use of the Chi Bomb, they're horrified, and set about trying to make sure it never happens, no matter what the cost.

* NamesTheSame: The basic premise of "Hong Kong Phonebook", one of the game's published adventures. [[invoked]]

* BigDamnHeroes: The "Like the Cavalry" schtick for the Drifter allows them to show up mid-fight if they were not with the other [=PCs=] when the fight began. "Ammunitional Rescue", another Drifter schtick, allows the Drifter to get a bonus to their first Guns attack after pulling this, along with a +2 bonus to Guns, Martial Arts and Defense for the rest of the fight.

* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Justified, as Arcanowave tech is made of demons and BlackMagic.

** Meanwhile, the Spy archetype can spend a fortune point to have people tell them something they shouldn't. The game recommends using it when captured, to induce gloating in villains.

'''2074 AD:''' Thanks to the Chi Bomb, this juncture has gone from a totalitarian dystopia to a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]] along the lines of ''Film/MadMax'', with cyborgs, mutants and road warriors struggling to survive in a devastated world. In 2069, the '''Jammers''' detonated the bomb in an attempt to eradicate chi in all major junctures. Fortunately for the timestream - if not for those who survived - the worst effects were chiefly limited to their time period, killing 97% of the population, mutating many of the survivors, and laying waste to the environment. The Architects of the Flesh, as holders of most of the planet's chi sites, were wiped out. The Jammers, faced with the horrific disaster they'd brought about, split into two factions. The original Jammers now seek to claim sufficient chi sites in the past to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, no matter how many innocents have to die in the process. The '''New Simian Empire''', meanwhile, seeks the establishment of a new cyber-ape empire, whether in this era or the past.

'''1850 AD:''' Uniquely among the main junctures, this one remains attached to its original year, with the '''Guiding Hand''' seeking to remove foreign influence from China.

* KiAttacks: Many Fu Powers.

** Killer: Jeff of ''TheKiller'', natch.

'''2074 AD:''' Thanks to the Chi Bomb, this juncture has gone from a dystopia to a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic wasteland]] along the lines of ''Film/MadMax'', with cyborgs, mutants and road warriors struggling to survive in a devastated world. In 2069, the '''Jammers''' detonated the bomb in an attempt to eradicate chi in all major junctures. Fortunately for the timestream - if not for those who survived - the worst effects were chiefly limited to their time period, killing 97% of the population, mutating many of the survivors, and laying waste to the environment. The Architects of the Flesh, as holders of most of the planet's chi sites, were wiped out. The Jammers, faced with the horrific disaster they'd brought about, split into two factions. The original Jammers now seek to claim sufficient chi sites in the past to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, no matter how many innocents have to die in the process. The '''New Simian Empire''', meanwhile, seeks the establishment of a new cyber-ape empire, whether in this era or the past.

* AfterTheEnd: The new Future juncture is essentially a post-apocalyptic love letter to the ''Franchise/MadMax'' series.

** This trope is actually invoked with the [[PunnyName Phallusaurus]] [[{{BFG}} Machine Pistol]]. It ''looks'' pretty sweet, being a machine gun with a clip so large it might as well have UnlimitedAmmo, and can serve as a knife in a pinch...and is so poorly weighted due to attempting to do two things at once that it's not very effective in either setting. It's only so well-used by the Buro because it looks a lot more intimidating than it is, rallying the cops and demoralizing the crooks, despite not having any great reason to.
** The Buro Godhammer, an even-more-phallic version of [[HandCannon the Desert Eagle]], is fully-automatic...with a five-round clip. Using it on full-auto is a ridiculous concept.

* PunnyName: Cybernetic monkey/ape Player Characters in the Jammers are penalized XP if their name is NOT some form of pun. Among the setting's established characters, besides Jammer leader [[Film/BattleshipPotemkin Battlechimp Potemkin]], there's [[CuriousGeorge Furious George]] (Battlechimp's NumberTwo, and [[Film/TheWizardOfOz he can fly]]), Rhesus Pieces (who can disassemble himself), Koko Chanel (a female gorilla looking for romance) and Funky Monkey (with a voicebox that makes him sound like Barry White). Most of the human Jammers have {{Punny Name}}s as well.

* TravelCool: The "Signature Vehicle" Schtick, usually a CoolCar, CoolBike or CoolTruck (although other kinds of vehicles are also accepted)--not only will the players be incredibly good at driving them (more than with a regular vehicle), but the vehicles will be repaired or replaced in between adventures if they are destroyed with no extra cost. The ruleset advocates that MetallicarSyndrome be "off" for the sake of RuleOfCool, as well.

'''690 AD:''' The closure of their original era thanks to the bomb forced the '''Eaters of the Lotus''' to find refuge in this new juncture, during the time of the Tang Dynasty, where Empress Wu Zeitan, China's only official female ruler, has begun her reign. Unfortunately for the Lotus, the Empress is not about to tolerate any threats to her power, and has purged her court of sorcerers, so the Lotus seek to undermine her and claim power for themselves.