Tetsuro
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I can't tell you how many times I got suggestions via PMs or e-mail on how to 'fix' problem cards in the CCG that basically all did the same thing, which was turn said cards into coasters. For some reason that's the go-to response to a lot of these issues.
Also, a universal truth is that players don't really mind broken cards all that much, they just don't want other people to be able to use them too. -
Take it from someone who tried very hard to 'fix' dueling for years in the CCG, there's not really a way to do it that will satisfy even a plurality of players.
About 99% of the time, 'fixes' players suggest for dueling boiled down to making it 'more fair', which meant more random and less reliable.
Of course, if dueling is an unreliable strategy, then players (outside of niche flavor players) will never even explore it, instead opting for other, more efficient ways to win consistently.
Far too often, 'make dueling more fair' means 'I want to be able to beat dueling decks at dueling without having to dedicate any card space to dealing with dueling.' -
Why does Isawa Tadaka look anorexic?
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It happens. I got hate mail too. That doesn't even count the stuff on clan forums which was usually pretty vicious. I mean, look at some of the programming team for Star Wars Battlefront 2. I think one guy said he was up to 7 death threats over lootboxes and paywalls, neither of which he or any of his programmers had anything to do with.
Like politics and sports, fandoms inevitably call to the worst aspects of tribalism.
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I think I still have the death threat filed away somewhere that I received when working as a designer for old L5R. Ah, memories.
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4 minutes ago, Saibot said:Oh, it already did. Just take a look at the threads on Backhanded Compliment.
No, I meant specific to the idea of counterspells.
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2 minutes ago, maniacmcgoo said:So, it's an cancel card that requires the favor to use.... why the outrage?
Only people I could think of who may have an issue with it are crane/scorpion players who don't want other clans to be able to cancel events also.
I'm gonna bet that old gem "NPE" shows up here sooner rather than later.
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7 minutes ago, Zesu Shadaban said:I guess I'm in the minority here, since my unpopular opinion is that this is a great card and I can't wait to use it.
I haven't checked, but was Backhanded Compliment an Event?
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1 minute ago, OsramTaleka said:People are overreacting.
L5R players? Are you sure?
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14 hours ago, Kubernes said:Fu Leng as female. Make it happen FFG.
If you take Bearers of Jade as canon in Old5R (many people don't, which is a shame because it's probably the best RPG supplement they ever made), Fu Leng would swap genders frequently in order to sire children with both male and female followers.
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2 minutes ago, Yogo Gohei said:^ This
People that complain also care. The more people care about what you are doing, the better.
The number of people that are here solely to ruin everyone else's good mood are pleasantly few.
During my time working in 'the industry' I came to understand that the online* L5R community had a reputation as one of the most toxic fandoms in the card gaming community.
While I won't go into details, when conversations I had early on with people after the IP sale lead me to believe that FFG was not prioritizing nor particularly interested in retention of the old fan base, and was more focused on growing a new one, I have to say I was relieved.
Focusing on retention was one of the many reasons L5R at AEG died a slow, hemmoraging death.
By the end you'd think the only active fans were people who'd quit years ago and just stayed around for the enjoyment of throwing some stones now and then.
(* It's important with L5R to distinguish the online community from the actual physical community, which usually always drew universal praise.)
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1 hour ago, franzvong said:I've been on many game forums, but I've never found this level of nitpicking and sometimes anger... before the game is even out! I'm not going to say it's going to drive new players away, but for sure it makes hard to partecipate
I see you never had a chance to visit the old AEG L5R forums.
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True story, at the Atlanta Kotei one year I had a friend who hasn't played in a while and asked me for a deck to play. I built him Jagged Maw Military because DVD dishonor was the deck du jour at the time. His most notable games:
Final Swiss Round vs DVD - Auto win
Top 8 vs DVD - Auto win
Top 4 vs DVD - Auto win
He didn't actually have to really play a game at all from final Swiss to finals, where he lost to Mantis.
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19 minutes ago, williamobrien said:It was retconned a bunch of times. The art of A Final Duel clearly shows Toturi with a clear shot at just killing him fair and square. The (non-canon) Scorpion novel goes with the backstab. Imperial Histories 1 just says "Shoju is killed in a duel with Toturi".
There was a time, for a period, when it seemed like there was a effort to undermine the accomplishments of the 'heroic' characters of the Clan Wars via retconning. It happened to Toturi by sort of trying to make it seem like his accomplishments weren't due to his own talents, or that he was actually secretly kind of dishonorable. It happened to Shoju, an ostensibly tragic character who tried to defy fate only to become its unwitting pawn, the moment they first started shoving Ambition in there and bringing a cloud over his motives.
I think the biggest victim of this by far is probably Togashi Yokuni, who was more or less turned into an outright villain over the years.
There are a lot of reasons why an author or authors might see fit to do this, and I wouldn't try and guess which ones apply here, but it did happen. The stories we know about these characters aren't the stories about them that originally existed.
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24 minutes ago, JRosen9 said:If I remember that story correctly, didn't Shoju see the error of his ways and purposely break his sword in the throne. If I am remembering correctly, that means Toturi's great dueling is taking down unarmed men
Is that how it was retconned? I sort of lost track of how many times they hacked apart the old guys about the time they inexplicably pushed the guy that stapled his son to a war banner to gain demon allies as some sort of misunderstood hero.
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Toturi did defeat Bayushi Shoyu in single combat, considered at the time to be one of the Empire's best swordsman.
He's never been a pushover when it comes to dueling.
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I knew One Koku.
One Koku was a friend of mine.
You, sir, are no One Koku.
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29 minutes ago, AtoMaki said:This was pretty much the case in the old canon too, so I don't think that we would be looking at a lot of difference here.
ZING
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On 6/7/2017 at 4:31 PM, tenchi2a said:So again the story only seems to change to add more females. and not to tell a new story.
I hear they are going to make Isawa Tadaka, in fact the entire Elemental Council, giant talking penises in hats and/or robes. That should help balance things.
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21 minutes ago, Ide Yoshiya said:So he looks exactly the same, except with a better face?
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It might have also been nice for us to feel like they had a brotherly or at least friendly relationship so we can feel Toturi being upset about his brother's death has more gravity.
Heck, you could even have had a momentary flashback to Hotaru and Toturi first meeting or even just a snippet of their friendship in the moment between when Toturi locks eyes with her and when the first arrow strikes Arasou.
You can even push back the "being passed over" part of the Arasou flashback to the end, to juxtapose Toturi as the new clan champion.
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I think this story could have benefited from something like a flashback of Arasou perhaps coming to see Toturi at the monastery, perhaps told intercut with him quietly watch Arasou on the battlefield, where we got a sense of the two characters, their dynamic, as well as informing readers as to why Toturi was passed over, and his atypical personality compared to other Lions. Perhaps they even have a conversation over a game, where Toturi maneuvers Arasou into a losing situation with Arasou not able to realize it until the end, not only contrasting the two but also foreshadowing Arasou's own fate.
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William O’Connor passed away
in Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game
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Fantastic guy. At the end of Gold Edition, I was at Gencon, just another lowly L5R player, and Will was nice enough to spend nearly an hour hanging out with myself and a friend of mine. We even cracked open a box of Winds of Change, and not only did he sign my foil Shinjo Xushen Xp and Akodo Tadenori Xp, but he even put a little '1st' on each since it was the first time he'd actually seen the cards in printed form.
A really class act, the world is lessened by his absence.