He was an RPG character if I recall. He was a really badass card in the never released Crane Yojimbo Honor Deck, and he was also going to be the Topaz Champion. Not sure if they will keep the Topaz Champ part intact.

The character is named Nerishma since that was the name of the deceased person's character.

Perhaps in the new canon the Gusai were never stripped of their name? Would people still want a Mantis Clan under the rule of the Gusai family? I know I would. They were a fun bunch of fellas.

The lowest time for me as a player was definitely the tail end of Lotus Edition. It was the one time I took a break from the game until the new arc started. It was just a little too much for me at the time. I enjoyed the insanity of Lotus to a point, but eventually it got a bit out of hand, and it killed off a LOT of our local player base in the process. As a designer, the lowest point for me was probably the Susumu Sensei that was released. Without getting into too fine a bit of detail, what came out was absolutely not what I had wanted for them, and I knew that the Spider community had really wanted it and I wanted it to be good. Even though I fought hard against the version that came out, I always think I could have perhaps done more, and I still consider it a personal failing. For the game overall, the lowest point was probably the time after Jade, when we all assumed the game was dead and gone after WoTC ditched it, and we existed in limbo until AEG surprised everyone by buying it back.

Kudos for Daidoji Nerishma being a named card. I know there was probably limited space for named characters and so many others that probably are a million times more iconic (if they still exist) from this time period, but Nerishma was a planned tribute card in Onyx Edition for someone who had passed away, so it was very decent of them to go ahead and print him. As someone who made the original Nerishma that won't see the light of day, this is the type of thing that makes me believe that the best aspects of this game community continue on in new hands.

This is my fault. I thought there might have been more than one Samurai in each of these armies. I'm learning a lot about Rokugan today.

"As you wish, my Lord." "Are you being dutiful? What is with you today? I hope nobody saw that! Now let's have this battle where hundreds or thousands of us kill each other, which shouldn't spark any blood feuds at all."

"If I challenge their commander to a duel and defeat him, we can end this conflict without further loss of life or damage." "Stop being so selfish!"

It's all starting to make sense now. I didn't lose honor for winning that duel, I just won that duel a little too dutifully. Maybe slack off next time a little, like an honorable Samurai would.

Two things I learned reading this article: 1 - The Lion are not dutiful. 2 - Doing your duty isn't Honorable.

Augusta, GA. Two hours from Dragoncon, the biggest con nobody plays L5R at.

My favorite was when the Empress gave the Scorpion a Celestial NINJA-TO. "Empress hah, hah, what a funny joke, everyone knows there is no such thing! (ixnay on the injasnay!)"

A story arc I wanted to pursue but never happened was having democratic/socialist revolutionaries as the arc 'villains'. I mean, the clash between feudal and 'modern' government is pretty much classic samurai, and it's always interesting to have a charismatic, idealistic antagonist whose goals, while noble to modern western audiences, are considered pretty horrible by Rokugan.

I think the best progression of storylines would probably be Clan War Skip Hidden Emperor Four Winds Skip Every Arc After That

I wonder if they will still keep her club footed? For that matter, I wonder if any of the others will keep their infirmities (particularly Shoju, who I believe was both ugly and had at least a partially crippled arm, if I remember)

It was confirmed on Twitter that the Naginata girl is in fact Hotaru.

I must have somehow missed that. Oh well, he won't be missed much. He was the Crane Clan's Shinjo Yokatsu.

Where has it been stated that Satsume is dead? Granted they may be mucking around with the canon, but if this is pre-Coup he's still very much alive. He outlived Arasou.

Brain fart, I meant Yakamo. Whatever, they're basically the same person.

I think we all know the one guy that really deserves to have a reprint if only because of his RAW POWER, and that man is Kolat Servant.

If they want to keep it with the 'important' people, it would be Kakita Yoshi or Toshimoko. However, I think I saw Daidoji Nerishma as a named card, which I hope is correct, as he was a memorial card request meant to honor a player that had passed away. He was supposed to be in the first Onyx Expansion. It would be nice if FFG decided to keep that in.

It's one of the reasons why, if we ever did a Soul of someone from Clan Wars/Hidden Emperor, they either got new art, or we just made someone else that was sort of like that card but different, since we were going to have to do new art anyway. (One of the the reasons for Soul of Personalities was budgetary, we only had allotments in the base set for so many new art pieces, so we had to reprint old cards. It's part of what made base set design such a pain, because we'd be forced to use X number of reprints even though often these new base sets were trying to establish new or different archetypes or playstyles. Before we shut down, there was even flirting with reprints in expansions, as the second Onyx Expansion was going to have a reprint of Obsidian Mine in it).

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have three characters per clan that were named. Kisada/Kuon/O-Ushi Satsume/Hotaru/??? Yokuni/Hitomi/??? Arasou/Tsuko/Toturi Ujimitsu/Tadaka/??? Shoju/Kachiko/??? AltTab/Kamoko/???

FFG seems to estimate the average time of a game to be 40 minutes, which means probably it's closer to 20.

The amount of reused art assets (or art assets from the unreleased Onyx sets) is pretty high, but then they did buy ALL the L5R art AEG owned. Which, if you didn't know, doesn't include any of the art from the Clan War or Hidden Emperor arcs, since AEG didn't own them anymore.