/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>10636674
Piano? Plenty. AssaultDoor is the place to start for that. Their most recent album - Dominant World - is quite interesting and, for all its variation, quite even in quality. I'm also quite partial to a guy called Tomoya. A bunch of people play Touhou piano but don't release albums though, like brunchmeat, so searching NND and Youtube, you'll find a bunch as well.

Classical though...

Yes, there's WAVE and Tutti Sound and all, and I suppose popular opinion says that they're pretty cool, but I have a strong distaste for them. They take their cues more from Hollywood film soundtracks than they do from the Romantic classical that ZUN so often mirrors. They lack almost any sort of subtlety. I just want to take Morrigan aside and explain to him that the reason large orchestras exist is for variety, not to have the entire string section play the same damn part.

On the other hand, you have TAMusic, who arranges for string quartet and piano. They have their own faults - mainly being that they're pieces tend to be formless and less complex than the originals - but their stuff at least sounds a little bit like what ZUN music properly should sound like arranged classically. Their Touhou string quartet albums are, in my opinion, probably the best Touhou classical you're going to find.

>>10254365
/tg/ here. Yes, there's an English translation floating around out there. Mediafire here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ti5wnh9xm7xh4t1

It's not a very good translation, but it's clear enough to make enough sense of the rules that a creative GM can figure the rest out.

Except that the rules themselves are really pretty bad. I'm not sure if anyone has actually tried running a campaign of this shit, but I can't imagine it ended well.

There's another game out there, a homebrew, and it's better from a mechanics perspective. Browse our archives for it, if you're curious. I'm thinking that /jp/ would probably find it full of secondary-ness, but that's what re-fluffing is for.

Or, you can try to modify Exalted and run Touhou in that. I hear this works fairly decently.

I had a speech asking you to be the better board, /jp/, but perhaps it is better I simply be the change.

So, what exactly is human culture like, in Gensokyo? What has extended isolation and adaptation to the world of ubiquitous gods done to them? Do they create art, in the human village? What sort of books fill their libraries?

Keine is an interesting girl. Yet, I don't see her very often in fan works. How unfortunate.