AI Prompts: Edo Period Japan

As a fiction writer and solo TRPG gamer,  I often need to have critical information close at hand to keep my stories moving along smoothly, or else I have to stop my creative flow and go find the answers I need in books or online.

With that in mind, I used Bard AI to gather a lot of the information for me, asking as many questions as I could think of early on, that I might need answers for later. Once I had the results, I organized them and found I had over 200 pages worth of content.

This can be a great resource for creative types in writing fiction, playing narrative journal RPGs, solo RPGs, or for world-building in projects focused on Edo Period Japan. You have everything you need to get you started, with tons of background information and suggestions for characters, plots, locations and a lot more.

This resource includes:

Part 1

* Culture - lifestyles, period books, theater, poetry and music

* People - clothing, food, drink, livestock, markets, currency

* Major Topics - festival, piracy, attitudes and more

* Travel - regions, roads, and sea vessels

* Beliefs - philosophy, religion, mythology and more

* Military Governance - shoguns, daimyo, samurai and ninjas

Part 2

* Fiction, Biospheres - flora, fauna, sea life, dinosaurs, megafauna

* Fiction, Locations - examples of hans, cities, towns and villages

* Fiction, Characters - suggestions for samurai, ronin, common folk

* Fiction, Adventures - many suggestions for single heroes, small groups, rich, poor, performers, etc

* More Adventures - popular themes adapted to Japanese equivalents, such as Conan, King Arthur, Cthulhu, Song Of Ice And Fire, etc

* Fiction, Magic System - basic elemental magic system you can adapt to your specific needs

* Fiction, Loot - a few examples of Japanese-centric loot and reward weapons

* Fiction, Weather - this part came out so-so, it's not balanced, but it could help or ruin your character's travel plans, includes seasons in forest, tropical and arctic locations

Also includes over 700 historical and modern Japanese names and a list of resources used.