#Villain Play Guide (惡役指南, Villain's Guide)

Contents

"Heroes are not the only protagonists. Play the darkness of this warring age."

Related Entries: Fiend Class List · Three Ways and Six Hearts · Cult Rules · Domain Management

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#Who This Document Is For

This guide is an expansion rule set for GMs and experienced players. It reverses the base assumption of Konsei Reiyotan, that "PCs are human, or human-side, heroes," and provides structures and guidance for playing villains.

Villain play is not suitable for every table. Use it only with the agreement of the entire table.

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#1. The 3 Forms of Villain Campaign

#Form A: Villain PCs + Hero NPCs

All PCs are villains. The GM controls hero NPCs who try to stop the PCs. "Can hero NPCs prevent the PCs from destroying the world?" This is the traditional structure reversed.

Example Campaign: "Shurado warriors of Shuten Mountain descend from the mountain and raid villages. Kagura Domain sends a punitive force. How do you survive?"

#Form B: Mixed Party (Villains + Heroes)

Villain PCs and hero PCs coexist in the same party. They cooperate temporarily against a common enemy, such as the Throne of the Spirit Realm or a great demon, but internal tension is always present.

Example Campaign: "To close the Gate of the Spirit Realm, a samurai (Loyalty) and a Shurado (Fiend) join the same team. After the gate is closed, what comes next?"

#Form C: Adversarial Play (PvP)

One team is heroic, the other is villainous. Strategic PvP. Each team operates a faction and confronts the other.

Example Campaign: "Kagura Domain (hero team) vs Shuten Mountain (villain team). Build military strength through domain management, then clash in combat sessions."

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#2. Dark-Side Three Ways and Six Hearts Play

Villain PCs explore the dark side of the Three Ways and Six Hearts.

#Hegemony (覇) — "My order is right"

• RP Core: Force your own justice onto others. "If I unite the realm, war will end." How much will you burn as the price?
• Fitting Fiend Classes: Shurado (demon of war), Kekka (art of blood)
• Conflict Scene: "Your lord orders you to burn a village, and there is a child in that village."

#Void (虛) — "Nothing has meaning"

• RP Core: One who has given up on salvation. Tired of the world's suffering, they do nothing, or try to end everything.
• Fitting Fiend Classes: Tatarigami (god who gives punishment), Kaibutsu (living mummy)
• Conflict Scene: "If I end everything, suffering ends too. Is that not compassion?"

#Fiend (魔) — "As instinct leads"

• RP Core: Freedom beyond morality. Do what you want. Eat if you want to eat; kill if you want to kill.
• Fitting Fiend Classes: Jikiniki (predator), Shikome-no-Tsukai (emissary of Yomi), Dokuchushi (extreme poison)
• Conflict Scene: "I thought this was freedom, but am I just being ruled by instinct?"

#No-Heart (無心) — "I believe in nothing"

• RP Core: Move by profit rather than morality. There is no good or evil, only survival and gain.
• Fitting Fiend Classes: Zakkasho (sells everything), Tesshin (emotionless machine)
• Conflict Scene: "I said I would do anything for money, but this is truly something that must not be done."

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#3. Cult Leader Play

An expansion rule in which the PC becomes the leader of a cult and operates a faction.

#Founding a Cult

#Maintaining a Cult

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#4. Villain Domain Management

A villain version of Domain Management. Instead of ordinary kokudaka/popular sentiment, the faction is maintained through raiding/fear/yoma alliances.

#Villain Seasonal Actions (Additional Options)

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#5. Conflict with Heroes

How to construct scenarios where villain PCs confront hero NPCs, or hero PCs.

#Confrontation Structure

#GM Tips: Making Villains Compelling

1. Give villains reasons. "Because they are just evil" is not interesting. "Because they lost family," "because the world betrayed them," "because they lacked power." With a reason, even a villain can be understandable.
2. Create moments of choice. Give villain PCs a moment when "you can still stop now." Refusing to stop is drama.
3. Use Humanity systems. Shurado's Humanity, Shikome-no-Tsukai's present-world Wound reduction: these are time bombs. They create the tension that "the end is approaching."
4. Create contrast with heroes. Two people answer the same question differently. "What must be done to change the world?" Heroes protect; villains break.

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#Fiend Class List

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Villains are the mirror of heroes. What appears in that mirror is something you discover through play.

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#Example Character

→ Integrated Sample for 12 Fiend Classes (1/5/10 Dan + Corruption Path Story)