History TabletopGame / HongKongActionTheatre

With the demise of Guardians of Order in 2006, both editions of ''Hong Kong Action Theatre'' and their supplements are now out of print, and can only be gotten in physical form by tracking them down in used bookstores or online through [=eBay=] or other means. PDFs of the latter game can be gotten on [=DriveThruRPG=] and other online venues.

With the demise of Guardians of Order in 2006, both editions of ''Hong Kong Action Theatre'' and their supplements are now out of print, and can only be gotten by tracking them down in used bookstores or online through [=eBay=] or other means.

In 1999, Event Horizon Productions was bought by Guardians of Order (makers of ''TabletopGame/BigEyesSmallMouth''), which produced a second edition of HKAT written by a team that did not include Gareth-Michael Skarka, which adapted the game for the Tri-Stat system. Opinions are... somewhat divided over it, but there was only one supplement released for the game, and that was the Wuxia supplement ''Blue Dragon White Tiger''.

* PlotArmor – Explicitly built into the rules. How difficult you are to hit or kill depends on how important you are to the general plot of the “movie”

With the demise of Guardians of Order in 2006, both editions of ''Hong Kong Action Theatre'' are now out of print, and can only be gotten by tracking them down in used bookstores or online through [=eBay=] or other means.

'''HKAT provides examples of:'''

* '''Gambling''' - A genre of movies inspired by the movie ''GodOfGamblers'' starring Chow Yun-Fat, this genre features immensely talented gamblers in the games of their lives, whether to rip off the Triads, lend aid to others, or just win it big. Since Gambling is primarily a modern day genre, there's plenty of overlaps with Gunplay.

In 1999, Event Horizon Productions was bought by Guardians of Order (makers of ''BigEyesSmallMouth''), which produced a second edition of HKAT written by a team that did not include Gareth-Michael Skarka, which adapted the game for the Tri-Stat system. Opinions are... somewhat divided over it, but there was only one supplement released for the game, and that was the Wuxia supplement ''Blue Dragon White Tiger''.

''Hong Kong Action Theatre'' is a TabletopRPG that was written by Gareth-Michael Skarka for the small-press company Event Horizon Productions in 1996, the same year that Daedalus Games came out with TabletopGame/FengShui. Like Feng Shui, HKAT seeks to emulate the crazy action of Hong Kong Cinema.

''Hong Kong Action Theatre'' is a TabletopRPG that was written by Gareth-Michael Skarka for the small-press company Event Horizon Productions in 1996, the same year that Daedalus Games came out with FengShui. Like Feng Shui, HKAT seeks to emulate the crazy action of Hong Kong Cinema.

Event Horizon Productions came out with three major supplements for HKAT, including the excellent ''Triad Sourcebook'', which is a definitive resource on TheTriadsAndTheTongs and their use in Hong Kong style gaming no matter what you're playing, and ''To Live and Die in HK'', a supplement that is to HKAT what Golden Comeback was to FengShui, and features rules for car and foot chases, new rules for wire fu, new Signature Moves for your characters, new skills and spells for your roles, and most importantly, rules for "Non-Studio" campaigns for those who do not want to play actors and/or want to play in something resembling a more traditional campaign setup.

HKAT's difficulty ratings in combat are based on how important a character is to the general plot rather than their general skill ratings. Characters of no Importance are typically innocent bystanders who generally don't offer any reason to be attacked (and often make for prime KickTheDog fodder for the bad guys). Characters of Minor Importance ({{Mook}}s and {{Red Shirt}}s) are among the easier targets to hit and tend to go down in droves. Characters of Moderate Importance (minor named characters) are the standard for named Extras and are a bit tougher to take out than Minor characters. Characters of Major Importance comprise {{Player Characters}}, important allies and major villains including TheDragon, and Extreme Importance is reserved for the BigBad and other characters who are generally not taken down until the final scene.

* '''Gambling''' - A genre of movies inspired by the movie ''God Of Gamblers'' starring Chow Yun-Fat, this genre features immensely talented gamblers in the games of their lives, whether to rip off the Triads, lend aid to others, or just win it big. Since Gambling is primarily a modern day genre, there's plenty of overlaps with Gunplay.

''HongKongActionTheatre'' is a TabletopRPG that was written by Gareth-Michael Skarka for the small-press company Event Horizon Productions in 1996, the same year that Daedalus Games came out with FengShui. Like Feng Shui, HKAT seeks to emulate the crazy action of Hong Kong Cinema.