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I've never seen L5R be talked about in 8/tg/, so, here we go.
Discuss RPG/Dying CCG/Fantasy Flight's buyout of the franchise.
Also discussion: What unconventional ways can two samurai duel?
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No.355520
>>355517
>>355518
So, what time (and time zone) were you thinking of running?
What were you thinking of using to run the game (Discord, roll20, IRC, Skype)?
How should people who are interested contact you?
Which edition of L5R do you intend to run?
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No.355522
>>355520
right now the time isn't set since one of the players just got a new job so he has to check his hours. but its set in the pacific time zone
will be using both discord and roll20
can contact through discord
l5r 4th edition
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No.355525
>>355522
>can contact through discord
What is your user name on Discord? I am very interested in joining this potential game.
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No.355526
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No.355527
>>355526
Let me rephrase what I said:
What is your username and four digit tag?
You will be able to see the tag number if you open up the settings window.
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No.355528
>>355527
WEincruzvier#8102
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No.355645
>>355496
Sounds like an emotional breakdown waiting to happen. A very cute one.
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No.355974
>>354630
The PDF seems to end rather abruptly. Do I have to go through the archive for the rest?
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No.355983
>>355974
Holy shit you're right. hang on… okay. I had the wrong one saved, THIS should be the right one.
Although, thread 19 and the postmortem thread inculde stats for all the main cast and a good many NPC's, so even if you stick with just the PDF those two are worth checking out. As well as some char art. ForverGM is a drawfag
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No.355985
>>355983
Don't let the fact that this one has fewer pages fool you; there was some cleanup.
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No.356102
>>355983
>>354630
>If I can just get him to tell me what he wants to be when he grows up, then I can make him promise that he'll grow up…
I cannot stop crying.
What have you done to me, Anon? Why have you inflicted me with these feels?
I honestly can't put this story down. Thank you for posting it here.
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No.356138
I've been thinking. Lions are counterparts to Crabs in that they can ignore armor TN. But isn't that also a very viable skill for Crabs fighting monsters? So if I play a crab, let's say Hida Bushi, and pay for the two schools trait, then I get a Crab that can ignore armor, right? So that way, he becomes a lot more dangerous, especially if the armor ignore skill can be used with a tetsubo. Just spitballing. Any thoughts, roleplay aside?
>>356102
It sure hits hard, doesn't it? Wallcrab best Crab. Memories of Stonewall is why Crabs are my favourite clan.
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No.356333
>>356138
The thing you're thinking off is Akodo Bushi rank 1. It ignores the bonus from armor to armor TN. So I don't think it would work on things like Demonic Chitin (+10 Armor TN) abilities on some creatures.
However, some goblins, some ogres (esp. the smart ones) zombies, lost, Maho Bujins, Akutenshi and Akutsuki DO wear armor, so there's that.
I think mixing Lion with Crab for a monster fighter, you're going to want to go the obvious rout and toss in Matsu Berserker. Since Jade Powder only does full damage on the first strike, and is gone after the third, big big damage numbers are important. You can mitigate the loss of armor TN for full attacking by wearing heavy armor, and get no penalty for doing so off Hida Bushi 1. With Hida Bushi 2 you increase your reduction, upping your survivablity even more, or you can path into Hida Berserker and then multiple schools into Matsu Berserker to make an engine of annihilation.
>>356102
I'm sure Crab-anon, the merry miscreants, and Forever GM would be glad to hear that, wherever they are.
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No.356683
>>352324
>between this and Netrunner, I've almost filled that gaping hole left by Magic
I want to play this and netruner, but I just recently found out that netrunner now has set rotation like other card games. I'm out of the loop!
I went to a LFGS and their card game of choice that wasn't MtG/YGO/Pokemon was Cardfight! Vanguard. How do I find people to play with? Do I just have to settle for online sims of these games and just buy the right cards to go to a tournament?
Do fa/tg/uys just live in large cities where they can find anything and anyone?
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No.356703
>>356683
iirc Netrunner has infrequent big rotations instead of constant small rotations, with the first one happening only recently (Oct 2017.) Their revised coreset and all the deluxe expansions are eternally in the game, the only thing that rotates in or out are the 6-pack card cycles, so you're not going to be eternally fucked.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/9/11/system-refresh/
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No.356704
>>356703
Neat. Looks like I just need to get the revised coreset as long as I can find a group to play with. Are LCGs the way of the future, or is there something inherent to TCGs that make them the mega games that they currently are?
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No.356707
>>356704
>Are LCGs the way of the future, or is there something inherent to TCGs that make them the mega games that they currently are?
The LCG model is nice for obvious reasons, but one thing I do notice is that it tends to create more homogeneous meta environments. With TCGs, especially when you're talking about more casual environments, there's a lot more room for customization and you see more crazy stuff pop up, since people will be building their decks based on what they've collected at random.
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No.357008
Has anyone tried running a game in a rokugan where a different Kami became the first Emperor, like the Togashi empire from Imperial Histories 2?
How did it go?
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No.359651
>>355983
I noticed the second half wasn't cleaned, so I cleaned it. It's not anywhere near perfect, mostly just organizing sentences into paragraphs and putting quotation marks around dialog, but it should make it more readable for the future.
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No.363226
>>357008
Or hell, a Rokugan under the Bayushi?
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No.363228
>>334599
I don't even know why the Scorpion player have to remade his character…when he can have said Scorpion guy be a Shiba Bushi. What Scorpion is he? Shosuro?
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No.363258
>>363228
He was shosuro but the whole level of subterfuge he couldn't really grasp as he was really not use to the level of role-play that is in L5R.
I pitched the idea that after we finish the current season of D&D that we might have sometime to do a different sort of game with me pitching Dark Heresy 2nd edition but my players wanted to do L5R some more. We will see in June what it looks like and I hope people are more up for it. It seems we have a more consistent members attending games so hopefully I won't have the issue of dealing with only having 2 or 3 players. We will see but none of the players seemed adverse to it.
I will just need to create another scenario and come up with the whole conflict network and stuff with the clans. I don't really want to reuse what the scenario i put together before.
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No.363350
>>359651
Anon, not to shit in your biscuit, but this pdf seems a bit weird. Am I loading it into the wrong program or something?
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No.363359
>>363350
Define "a bit weird."
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No.363370
>>363359
The linebreaks are fucked up. I took a screenshot.
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No.363383
>>363370
When cleaning the second half I just copied and pasted it all into a a word processor, then converted back to pdf once I was done. Some of the first half's formatting probably got messed during that. If I have time I can go back and fix it.
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No.369682
We should do something like https://sitwl5r.blog/ . Thoughts?
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No.379204
welp. 5e's coming out with the stupid dice. At least it's not like all the other FFG abominations
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No.380355
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No.380375
>>379204
I saw stupid dice and female designer with FFG which I then decided I will just stick with the last edition AEG did instead.
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No.380519
>>380375
I imagine a lot of people will do the same.
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No.381095
Who else /gaijinscum/ here?
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No.382545
Fuck if i know what the proper protocol is for this, but does anyone have a game going that needs people? Board-based, roll20, fuck even a reddit game idgaf I need some 4e in my life man
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No.382707
>>380355
>Swan and scorpion
Hold on, lemme roll up a big Crab and rape them both. Or would a lion be better suited for this? Fucking feminist pieces of shit trying to stir their fucking fanfictions into my fucking games.
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No.383621
>>382707
definitely a crab, remember that the lion have one of them there matriarchy families in the Matsu, so there's that
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No.386752
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No.394177
What up. I don't suppose any of you cool dudes have a scan of the beginner game? Anyone played through it?
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No.395272
5e coming this week. Who is excited?
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No.395410
>>395272
I'm not. FFG can take their goddamn stupid proprietary dice and shove them up their ass. 4E is eternal.
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No.395501
>>395410
4e is pretty shit anon
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No.395636
>>395272
I completely forgot I preordered it until it arrived at my door yesterday
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No.395748
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No.395817
>>395748
Well, first I have to say I'm relatively new to L5R so I can't really say I'm going to be able to make a real good comparison to the previous editions. I picked up a used copy of 4e a month ago and never got around to running anything with it. Also I've been busy irl with back-to-back overtime, so I haven't had time to fully go over the whole book. This'll just be a broad impressions so far.
As far as production quality goes, the art is, imo, fantastic, featuring a good mix of the more realistic style shown in the promotional material, along side more stylized illustrations reminiscent of period Japanese art, and in good amounts. I'd say, on average, one piece per 3 pages, with sections like clans and schools getting illustrative pictures more frequently.
Layout is really good. Everything is sequenced logically and clearly, especially with regards to character creation imo. It seems like they tried to keep related information grouped together on a single page or pair of pages when possible: all families of a clan on a single page, an entire school to a page, etc. It makes it very easy to glance through when looking for specific information. Further, they seem to have decided to place all sidebar style additions and reminders in the margins of a page; your millage may vary on whether that makes the page look cluttered vs whether that makes things convenient.
Speaking of character creation, unlike in 4e, it seems like FFG went out of their way to make sure at least one representative school for each family of each clan is included. You won't need a second or third book to get character diversity in, say, an all Crab clan Shadowlands expedition game.
Still need to find time to just sit down and absorb everything in the book, and I can't really comment on the way the mechanics work beyond superficial observations (Rings working more like Approaches in FATE Core Toolkit/ Dresden Accelerated; there are mass combat and skirmish rules, which iirc was in a supplement in 4e; etc). It does seem to be really dense with regards to content, but not in a way that makes it hard to navigate.
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No.400938
Any Christmas releases planned?
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No.406136
>>395501
Hey, I'm from the future.
At least 4e doesn't feature core mechanics that are not explained at all or microtransactions tier jewery.
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No.406173
Played 4e with new group this past week, and it was an absolute blast. Having the roleplay carry such weight makes the game extremely engaging.
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No.406232
>>406136
Explain this one. I haven't been paying much attention to the new RPG release.
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No.418121
>>406232
First edition was the best edition.
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