Legend of the Five Rings: Coming soon: L5R The Flamethrower!

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MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Yawgmoth posted:

It's pretty indicative of like 90% of the player base from what I've experienced so from that angle it's pretty useful.

I'd love to find a group to play L5R 4e with that would be properly down to houseruling the problems the system has out (or at least mitigating them) and also be interested in having characters who want to actually do poo poo instead of RPing Samurai Barbie's Tea Party every session while NPCs handle the oni rampaging through the countryside and the kolat plotting yet another assassination of the emperor, etc.

...not that I'm bitter from a string of unfortunate groups or anything.

Sounds like you�d love my group. We play either 4E or heavily houseryled 1E.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2017 22:34

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:51

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Aramoro posted:

I really hope they don't bring back the Shadowlands as a playable faction in the LCG. It's an external corrupting influence tainting the great clans.

Or if they do, don�t have them become a clan. That just doesn�t work on so many levels.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2017 17:28

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Brofessor Slayton posted:

I know that the story choices were "okay, here's your prize money, and you can pick from these options that benefit your clan in different ways", but I always imagined it as the tournament winner being pulled up on some cheesy gameshow stage.

"You can take the washer-dryer-Promo Stronghold set! You can make Spider a great clan orrrrr you can take whatever's in the mystery box!"

The box! The box!

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 14:57

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

PaybackJack posted:

I'm fine with them existing but their storylines don't mesh well with the themes of politics, intrigue, and clan warfare that make up the bulk of the game.

I mean gently caress there's a ton of Ratling fans and they sure as poo poo shouldn't bring that faction back.

I'll certainly admit to some bias as an old Scorpion player who played dishonor decks and ran into Shadowlands and it was just dumb because it was pretty much auto-lose unless I was playing a switch deck that could go military. It was a lovely element of the game that was only ever tolerated because playing dishonor was like playing a blue M:tG deck; no fun for most people even if there was a ton of interaction.

So yeah, add them in but don't make them a focus of the storyline for a long time, and if you add them to the LCG then do it in a passive way that doesn't detract from the rest of the game and plays in a somewhat similar fashion.

Ratling have their own sense of honor and could be made to work within the rules.
Shadowlands/Spider not really.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2017 17:00

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I'm still a fan of the Unicorn, I've loved them since reading their Way of during the 1E days.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2017 03:59

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

While Shugenja were always crazy powerful, I always thought their many limitations helped make them balanced somewhat, or at least not making the rest of the PCs obsolete.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2017 16:07

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Zarick posted:

It seems like they did address the "not agreeing with your Clan skills" problem; in the rules update it says you can pick any skill you have 0 ranks in.

I'm still gonna play that Dragon clan sailor.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2017 04:00

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

In over 10 years of playing Legend of the Five Rings, I've yet to see a single character that was just a stereotype. Even the ones that held closely to their clan archetype still had some personality traits that set them apart.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2017 04:19

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Dick Burglar posted:

I only know the Crab had some boats because the Mantis are dicks and attacked them. No idea if anybody else has anything.

Not just boats: Korean-style Turtle Boats.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 01:32

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I finally ordered the corebook and I'd love to get to play the new edition to get a feel for it.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2020 14:49

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Lol we're doing this again, this is hilarious.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2021 16:07

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

EverettLO posted:

And it worked so well last time, what with it being considered the worst run of books in the history of the RPG and literally no one I've ever heard of having gotten drawn into L5R through them.

You're gonna laugh, but I know of two.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2021 17:55

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

4E isn't terrible. If you prefer that style of game to the FFG version it's perfectly playeable.

Especially compared to previous editions.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2021 17:08

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I remember the d20 glut years, and they weren't great folks!

# ¿ Jul 24, 2022 15:27

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I only played ffg l5r once and I thought it was pretty good.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2022 20:26

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Isn�t advantage in dnd 5e just roll and keep when you think about it?

# ¿ Jul 25, 2022 03:45

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

I'm never running L5R with dnd, but I might try to use a L5R class in another dnd game if I cna convince the gm.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2022 15:48

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

No Forest-Killers material? Sad.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2022 18:14

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Dawgstar posted:

They get a sidebar about what their deal is and it's ironic that the only thing they're actually wanted for is poaching on Imperial lands. The murder and theft nobody really cares about officially.

Nice!

Lol in 4e they had by far the best Ronin technique.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2022 19:07

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Could be a vampire survivors-like.

Personally I'd do a 8 or 16-bit style jrpg inspired by the SaGa series about gathering the 7 Thunders and fighting Fu Leng.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 23:43

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

HidaO-Win posted:

We indeed will now have a 4th L5R continuity.

They'll end up crisising at this rate.

Remember when Daidoji Uji came back from an alternate timeline?

# ¿ Aug 3, 2023 00:09

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:51

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Lord_Hambrose posted:

The Clan War is the best time period, so it's no surprise they are going back to that well. It's a good well!

I prefer Four Winds.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2023 01:50

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