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Road of Buddhism

Conscience + Self-Control
  1. Selfish thoughts.
    (Thought is as good as deed)
  2. Minor selfish acts.
    (Compassion separates us from the beasts.)
  3. Injury to another person (deliberate or otherwise).
    (Follow the golden rule)
  4. Killing a mortal for sustenance.
    (Death robs a person of the ability to fulfill their svadharma.)
  5. Succumbing to Frenzy.
    (You must overcome your monstrous urges and desires, not allow them to take you over.)
  6. Killing a mortal for reasons other than survival.
    (A person may not have achieved her svadharma, and preventing such is anathema.)
  7. Failure to aid another's svadharma.
    (The gods have set this as the purpose of the undead.)
  8. Allowing one's sect affairs to precede one's dharma.
    (One's allegiance should be to the gods, not one's companions.)
  9. Becoming blood-bound.
    (The supernatural desires of the blood bond shackle a Buddhist down to the threefold world.)
  10. Embracing needlessly or out of personal desire.
    (One must return others to the cycle, not extract them from it.)

Road of Confucius

Conscience + Self-Control
  1. Neglecting your duty.
    (Those who fail in their responsibilities often lose them.)
  2. Failing to seek out new knowledge when provided an opportunity to do so.
  3. Treating an inferior as an equal.
    (Everyone should know their place, including you )
  4. Abusing your family, whether mortal or cainite.
  5. Behaving shamefully before your peers.
    (Honor and reputation are everything.)
  6. Showing weakness in front your inferiors.
    (A leader must be seen as strong.)
  7. Impassioned violation (e.g. manslaughter, killing a vessel in Frenzy).
  8. Treating a superior with disrespect.
    (Superiors must be given the respect they are due.)
  9. Breaking your word to your superiors.
    (Your word is your bond, if your word is worthless, then so are you )
  10. The most heinous and demented acts.

Road of Three Treasures

Conscience + Self-Control
  1. Attempting to alter the natural world.
  2. Accumulating an excess of personal possessions.
  3. Allowing pride, wrath or greed to influence your actions.
  4. Flagrant disregard for a community's laws.
  5. Boasting and other shows of lack off humility.
  6. Allowing gross disruption of the natural world.
  7. Impassioned violation (e.g. manslaughter, killing a vessel in Frenzy).
  8. Accumulating an excess of wealth.
  9. Casual violation (e.g. wanton killing, feeding past satiation).
  10. Grossly upsetting the natural world (vandalism, arson, etc).

Road of Wu Wei

Conviction + Instinct
  1. Thinking before acting.
  2. Gross disregard for a community's laws.
  3. Failing to ride the wave of a Frenzy.
  4. Acting in a overly cruel manner.
  5. Wanton destruction.
  6. Not making a decision within seven breaths.
  7. Killing without need.
  8. Refusing to kill when it is in your best interests.
  9. Becoming blood bound.
  10. Embracing needlessly or out of personal desire.

Road of Shenxia

Conscience + Self-Control
Fill the tenets for Road Score 1-5 with those of Road of Humanity or one of its sub-paths.
For Road Score 6+, pick, choose and mix freely any from Buddhism, Confucianism, Three Treasures, Watchful Gods or Wu Wei.