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    "Toturi, let's go over the battle plan."

    "Okay Arasou."

    "The main force will be me. You will take command of this other squad of every other important person in the entire Lion Clan."

    "Uh, okay."

    "If Tsuko starts acting like she has rabies and has no idea what even the most basic tactics in war are, it's fine. Also, if I die, please give an awkward and strangely overdramatic soliloquy."

    ".... Okay."

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    Our local GS has already warned us that under this new system they will be having a much harder time stocking FFG Products and getting restocks in. That's probably more of an issue, because those of us who have placed preorders may know eventually we'll get our product, but if the stores can't restock, then it'll be that much harder to get newer players to buy in to the game.

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    1 hour ago, Togashi Gao Shan said:

    Yeah.  I haven't yet decided if I'm using Qamar or not.  Never been a fan of his art. I suppose I could have just used that Shahadet art for Qamar.

    How can you hate the "I Want You To Join The Naga" Qamar? :D

    Besides, isn't it a title, not a name? If you're the leader of the Naga, you're the Qamar, as I have always understood it.

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    8 minutes ago, JJ48 said:

    Now I'm envisioning a situation like:

    Captain:  Who's going to guard this caravan?

    Aide:  Well, with this caravan we have Takuji, Koichi, Nerishma, and-

    Captain:  <facepalm and sigh>  Everyone be ready for an ambush.

    Nerishma's ranks in Unluck and his personal mon of a bullseye with the phrase "Here I Am" finally come back to haunt him.

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  17. Posted · Edited by Tetsuro

    Oh no, death threats and hate mail came to me because of design, not story. I'm not aware if anyone on ST ever got something that bad, I only know about the threat to punch one of them. But, hey, it's an internet fandom, that stuff comes with the territory these days. You kinda have to just roll with it if you intend to keep being involved at that level.

    I'm a big fan of this first fiction and I hope old fans give it a fair chance. I'm really interested to see if they take the opportunity to breathe new life into old, extremely underdeveloped characters like Shiba Ujimitsu or anyone in the Unicorn Clan from this era not named Kamoko.

  19. Posted · Edited by Tetsuro

    1 hour ago, KerenRhys said:

    Poor guys...

    I guess that explains some weird decisions sometimes. One must be totally crazy to accept this mission, that's the highest level of Mission: Impossible there. Even Tom Cruise would run away terrified. :lol:

    I know of at least one Story Team member that was threatened with physical violence by someone because of a story. I myself regularly received hate mail and even a couple of death threats, even when I was an unpaid volunteer, before I was formally hired as an actual employee.

    It was definitely something you did because you loved L5R, even if sometimes parts of the fandom left you wondering why exactly you did so much. :D

    I'm really looking forward to just being a fan again.

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  20. Posted · Edited by Tetsuro

    2 hours ago, Kinzen said:

    I always got paid for my RPG work, for what that's worth; obviously I can't swear that was true for everybody.

    But the Story Team . . . yeah. As of near the end of AEG's tenure, at least, they got "paid" in cards.

    This is correct, though I'm not 100% sure about Shawn. Design Team wise, the PDT members were more or less paid a small commission for each set they completed design on, and were also "paid" with product. Bryan Reese and myself were the only actual designers who were technical employees, with regular paychecks et all, on Design.

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    4 hours ago, Mandalore525 said:

    ..But seriously, out of character, those Kolat seem pretty sketchy. I like that they want equality, but I also get the sense they're not exactly great guys. But maybe I just have the wrong impression.

    Kolat don't want equality. They just want to be the ones in charge instead.

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    14 minutes ago, Tonbo Karasu said:

    Where in the world did you get that idea from??

    As far back as City of Lies, it is established that homosexuality isn't a big issue.  There's a Scorpion who keeps his same-sex affairs secret only because the Scorpion are expected to have a secret, not because it's considered bad. (I think his name is Gobei, but I can't remember his family, it might be Bayushi).  The way it's presented I always got the impression the denouement would have as much seriousness as "your Daimyo secretly enjoys Kabuki more than Noh!"

    Sure, I remember Gobei. Granted I dont have CoL anymore but I do recall people mostly reacted to him with kind of an eye roll, which I certainly would classify as disdainful. But you also have to consider that any kind of romantic expression tends to be frowned upon as inappropriate in the first place, and you couple that with the fact that generally speaking you're going to be in an arranged marriage and therefore have to have an affair to be involved in that kind of relationship, plus the general disdain in a feudal society for people who are seen as unable (or unwilling) to produce an heir and you have a combination for a slight bit more disdain than society would have for a more 'normal' relationship. But, in general it's frowned upon to engage in any sort of passionate romantic relationship in the first place, and logically if people are aware that you are homosexual, it's because you've failed to hide that you were engaged in one, which makes people inclined to be disdainful.

    That's always the impression I got from it all, anyway. Of course I'm willing to concede that my time at AEG and their own attitude towards the subject may be coloring that perception.

     

  24. Posted · Edited by Tetsuro

    I imagine Hotaru, as presented in her interactions with and feelings about her father, probably grew up feeling rather lonely and generally resentful, and most likely had or has a very low opinion of herself and her worth. If canon holds true then her brother Kuwanan was a non entity in her life being raised among other clans, and we notably didn't get any scenes of her being trained by Toshimoko. Given his reputation I find it highly unlikely that he played the surrogate father/drinking and adventuring buddy role with Hotaru as be did with Hoturi, it would have been wildly inappropriate. Add to it even in Rokugan being a homosexual isn't 100% okay, it's just something people try hard to ignore or pretend doesn't exist, but there is an underlying impression that the person is wrong for being 'that way'.

    I would absolutely not be surprised if the story turned out to be that the Scorpion discovered Hotaru's proclivities and Kachiko was ordered to work her magic on this lonely, vulnerable, extremely unhappy girl (probably by Shoju) for their own purposes. Having someone like Kachiko make Hotaru not only feel special but also "normal" would be a huge appeal for someone in Hotaru's miserable position. 

    If they decide that Kachiko isnt putting on an act anymore and actually ended up falling in love with Hotaru, which wasn't part of the plan and is probably something she isn't keen to let Shoju or anyone else know about, you're also setting up an interesting depth of internal conflict to her character as well.

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