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  2. Posted

    Skeletal Bushi (Minion) p. 206

    What to do about these advantages and disadvantages? Not sure what they mean.

    • Advantages: Unholy Strength (Fire) [Martial; Physical, Spiritual], Visage of Death (Water) [Social; Interpersonal, Physical]
    • Disadvantages: Skin and Bones (Earth) [Martial; Physical]

    But here's my major psychological malfunction, if you're the brand new character, Hida McCrabbyface, with your standard non-sacred weapons how to kill these things:

    • Does Not Bleed (A skeletal bushi ignores all critical strikes inflicted by sources that do not have the Sacred quality.)

    So how does one kill them? Or can you just not kill them without a spell or weapon with the sacred quality? 

     

    Furthermore...

    Does that mean (logically speaking) that skeletons are the Shadowlands secret weapon, because there just aren't enough shugenja or sacred weapons in existence?

    Or does that mean that the Crab have enough shugenja and sacred weapons to keep them in check?

    Or does that mean that skeletons are pretty rare?

     

    /confused

     

    Paige

  3. Posted

    14 hours ago, Vutall said:


    Rules updates: https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/98/41/9841fba7-1f05-4221-8fdc-ec65e7f653d1/l5r00_beta_updates_v10.pdf

    Mantis Preview: https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/58/02/58024fca-b361-4f1c-81b1-fe15e1a157f7/l5r00_beta_preview_1-mantis_clan-good.pdf

    Geez louise you would not believe how hard I was looking for these. THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the links.

     

    p

  4. Posted

    Some of the topics we're talking about now:

     

    Tell me about YOUR character:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/StarWarsFFG/permalink/153070318528164/

     

    So my DnD group wants to try out playing star wars. They of course want to play a mixed game with some of them being force sensitive and other not. So what should I run for them a module or homebrew something? I should add that I have run this game many many times in the past and have a YouTube channel just for it. And I'm curious what others would do.
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/StarWarsFFG/permalink/153239651844564/

     

    Art by John Gendall

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  6. Posted

    If you want to talk about the Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight on Facebook, come join us!

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/StarWarsFFG/

     

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    In this group we:
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  10. Posted

    I regret I can't give you every solid example. The layout of this document apparently blows my mind, and the minds of our playtest group.

    We seriously had five people, with eight college degrees between us flipping pages like fools last night trying to find all the info we needed for a small skirmish between four goblins and four samurai.

    We kept saying "I know the rule is X, but now I can't find it anywhere..."

    For instance, we KNOW you dump strife at the end of scenes and after an outburst, but we had real trouble finding that. "At the end of the scene, the character removes strife until their strife is equal to half their composure," occurs under the individual outbursts (where it's repeated multiple times) and NOT in the section under outbursts in general.  On the good side, I fully approve of this particular subject/verb disagreement and the use of the singular they so that we have a gender neutral pronoun. 

    For instance, we know that focus and vigilance are important for initiative in skirmishes, but we couldn't find it! We searched all over the section on skirmishes p. 163 for it. That page just mentions the TN1 Tactics check. The focus/vigilance thing is on p.153, but it should also be on p 163 as well.

    There are a lot of other examples, and my life is too short to detail them all. Suffice to say, the layout and ordering, as a whole, needs some serious work.

    p

  12. Posted

    @sidescroller I guess it wasn't clear from the OP, I am running the playtest group. We are talking about the number of disadvantages in the context of about 10 hours of play. 

    Paige

     

    On 10/12/2017 at 0:15 PM, Scorpienne said:

    Did character creation last night for a playtest group. Isawa Shugenja. Shosuro Infiltrator. Hida Bushi. Akodo Bushi. Unicorn Outrider. Togashi Monk. Three of these people have been playing since 3rd ed, another two have been playing since 4th ed, and one is brand new to the game.  I've been playing since 3rd ed.

    The Isawa has cognitive lapses and delusions of grandeur.

    The Shosuro is mute and is bloodthirsty.

    The Hida has a disfigured visage and is bloodthirsty.

    The list goes on, and it's not necessary to detail it. These characters are seriously messed up.

    It feels VERY different from prior editions where we were all more-or-less noble samurai who were worthy of respect. Me personally, I generally preferred to play with few or no disadvantages in prior editions. 

    I am concerned that there are too few opportunities in character creation to steer clear of disadvantages, and it means that the characters you get are all somehow seriously messed up and in many cases, less worthy of respect from the players and the GM, much less the NPCs. They just don't *feel* as heroic.

    I'm not arguing for NO disadvantages; having a disadvantage or two keeps a character interesting. I do feel that there should be an opportunity for fewer of them though.

     

    paige

     

     

  16. Posted · Edited by Scorpienne

    5 minutes ago, themensch said:

    Wow, that is atrocious.  The G+ Star Wars FFG group is 4 times as large and even the one specifically for GMing is as large as this one.  Please feel free to come join us there, I run the GM one and I don't tolerate that kinda crap.  We play by Wyld Stallyns rules and I will absolutely not tolerate that behavior.  

    Yeah, yeah, G+ stinks.  Sure.  But tell me FB & Twitter don't have their own stench right about now?  They can't even stop actual nazis and manipulative foreign oligarchs, what chance do we have?

    I'm SO glad to hear that the "real" community here and on G+ is firmly rooted in 2017. :-)  And I feel you on G+ vs Twitter vs FB. They're all rotten.

    Any one willing to make a competing FB group?  I'm already a mod for a large FB group and can't handle two, but I'm more than willing to help out. I mean, ideally, the best way to deal with it is to do them one better. Or better, FF makes one officially.

     

     

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  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, Tasha2 said:

    That board does nothing to make Asmodee or FFG look good or make the Various FFG Star Wars games appealing to Women.

    And that's what terrifies me. I'm 46. There are a vanishingly small number of women my age that play TT RPGs.

    I want the women in the generations that come AFTER me to not get turned off of TT RPGs because of assholes like this. I'm more than happy to body block for them to wrangle jerks to make their path a tiny bit smoother.

     

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  19. Posted · Edited by Scorpienne

    The ADMIN of the Star Wars Fantasy Flight Games RPG group posted this sexist bull.

    Then he banned everyone who thought this was sexist bull.

    If you enjoy the game, consider joining the group and letting them know what you think.

    Also consider reaching out to Fantasy Flight on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FFGames

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/1382461988710469/permalink/1811783465778317/





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  22. Posted · Edited by Scorpienne

    Did character creation last night for a playtest group. Isawa Shugenja. Shosuro Infiltrator. Hida Bushi. Akodo Bushi. Unicorn Outrider. Togashi Monk. Three of these people have been playing since 3rd ed, another two have been playing since 4th ed, and one is brand new to the game.  I've been playing since 3rd ed.

    The Isawa has cognitive lapses and delusions of grandeur.

    The Shosuro is mute and is bloodthirsty.

    The Hida has a disfigured visage and is bloodthirsty.

    The list goes on, and it's not necessary to detail it. These characters are seriously messed up.

    It feels VERY different from prior editions where we were all more-or-less noble samurai who were worthy of respect. Me personally, I generally preferred to play with few or no disadvantages in prior editions. 

    I am concerned that there are too few opportunities in character creation to steer clear of disadvantages, and it means that the characters you get are all somehow seriously messed up and in many cases, less worthy of respect from the players and the GM, much less the NPCs. They just don't *feel* as heroic.

    I'm not arguing for NO disadvantages; having a disadvantage or two keeps a character interesting. I do feel that there should be an opportunity for fewer of them though.

     

    paige

     

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  24. Posted

    6 hours ago, Tabris2k said:

    And before you say that's cuel... he always play a scorpion ninja, so he kind of deserves it.

     

    Silly fire chicken, everyone knows ninjas don't exist. The emperor says so.

    (Username, Scorpienne, forum icon, a Scorpion, and no, I don't know what you're talking about... ;-D)

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