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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Legend of the Five Rings: Ivory Edition!
 
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Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

SirFozzie posted:

Absolute best way?

Find the two L5R RPG Books Imperial History 1 and 2

That has about 15 different time periods covered (including some alternate ones like "What if Fu Leng won the 2nd Day of Thunder", "What if Rokugan didn't kick all the foreigners out", "What if a Monk with the ear of the Emperor decided to promote the idea that since there were five rings, there should be five clans (one for each ring), and that the Crane and Scorpion should merge?" (an actual bit of the non-CCG timeline that ALMOST happened, to EVERYBODY's horror) and "What if we took Samurai Drama, and made it a Sci-Fi RPG game?"

I's that the official canon now? That The Battle of White Stag was irn the up and up and not just Imperial Histories saving face? How do they explain the Tortoise Clan then?

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Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

SirFozzie posted:

As I said, some of it is alternate timelines, the "What If the Foreigners weren't kicked out", basically, the Empress doesn't die, and it turns into Rokugan quite some time later, as they start to build railroads, and Samurai carry a daisho of gunpowder weapons as well as swords).

Right but originally the gaijin weren't forcibly expelled, the whole battle was pretend to save face. The Empress wasn't really killed but abdicated and left willingly with the sailers after setting up secret trade agreements. The Tortoise Clan was founded to oversee this new trade agreement, to seek others and to provide cover to any of the Empress' descendants who wanted to return to Rokugan.

Though it looks like someone decided to change that sometime in during The Four Winds.

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