There really is, whenever you advocate for changing something you kind of have to have a reason why it should be done.

Your definition of appease differs from mine because IME people rarely behave appeased with 1 or 2 cards.

Which is a weird point to make as anyone familiar with the art for this game knows there have been.

I'm not the one advocating for a change in setting. The burden is on you to prove that it improves the setting rather than dilutes it. In my experience with the game (20ish years at this point) it has been better received when it was focused on the rokugani more than the gaijin or nonhumans. There is a limited amount of time and resources FFG is going to have to spend fleshing out details and stories regarding this card game and the playerbase has a pretty insatiable thirst for it (to the point that weekly fictions weren't enough). Why should they widen the focus when they likely aren't going to have enough resources budgeted to focus on any individual clan to the satisfaction of that clans base? What does introduction of these other things do other than create the limitless lobbying for more (minor clans/ratling/naga/yobanjin/any other minor subfaction that has been introduced in the history of L5R) story inclusion? How can that NOT dilute the story of the 7 clans? There are only so many hours in a day for writing and only so many resources FFG is going to be willing to devote to writing free fiction.

I simply don't feel being more diverse adds literally anything productive to the game or story. There are already 7 clans that are going to be jockeying for story time, everyones going to have their favorite characters they'd rather see featured in stories. More has universally not been better for the story when added to this game historically.

This has a few good points. One of my biggest frustrations in these conversations are that people take like...no care to parse their statements and come off like they're speaking for all of a demographic. Its ok to speak only for yourself, fluffing your positions with "women feel/dont feel" or "POC feel/need/dont feel" just opens you up to getting slapped down when a member of the group you presume to speak for disagrees with you. Your positions dont weaken on a matter of opinion if you only speak for yourself, but your credibility suffers when you presume to speak for a group and a member of that group contradicts you. Maybe people should just say you're not a fan of whatever style of art. Or that overuse of certain styles annoys you or makes you less inclined to play the game. But also maybe allow everyone the agency to chime in and speak for themselves rather than having the temerity to make broad statements about the opinions and feelings held by a large diverse group of people. Less egg on the face when the inevitable contradiction from someone you presumed to speak for comes.

He had a card printed, had a descendant and died on screen, thats more than like 90% of the introduced characters in the l5r story get.

Yeah they did

No but neither do i see a need for the setting to change to accommodate it. For the most part foreigners who wander into the empire are killed. But. Burning sands has the egyptian mideastern cultures, the ivory kingdoms and naga represent a fantastic view of india. Merinae and thrane represented europe. The problem is all these cultures are enemies, with strictly controlled diplomatic contact restricted to 2 different clans by imperial decree. All of these things exist in setting, are handled in setting, and are footnotes at best in the story of the rokugani empire.

Themes and settings are like cooking, trying to add a little of everything usually turns it into an unappetizing mess.

And somewhat unsurprisingly the male "ideal" dovetails in with what (im not going to throw out a term like most here ) a significant chunk of the female population finds attractive. Which erodes the argument that its all about male power fantasy, an argument that kind of negates the concept of women as sexual beings with their own desires and attractions. All this completely ignoring the idea of what gay men may or may not find attractive as well.

Because every single one of the people on the sexiest men alive list in the past 10 years is overall larger and more toned/muscular than most of the people of their demographic and the general argument seems to be that if they're big and muscular it must be a male power fantasy? Edit: also dave willis as an argument? Really?

Its a setting where long used familiar heirlooms literally awaken their spirit and become magic items. Of course the family sword is emphasized heavily.

No, average height of a white male in america is 5'9.

5'9" actually

He's almost 6 feet tall and actually in pretty good shape for someone in his fifties, plus coasting off being a teen heartthrob throughout the 80's and 90's.

Everyone on that list for the past 10+ years has had a sculpted well toned physique. Edit: The only one in the last 10 years shorter than 6' tall is johnny depp, who is almost 6' tall.

Hate to break it to you but there are lots of women out there who like looking at sexy skinny scantily clad women, and lots of women who like musclebound arms big as tree trunks stoic men too.

There is a subset of the old crowd whose return and presence would in fact be an active hindrance to the success of the game

Crab is G/W in playstyle for the most part. Either swarmy or big beefy creatures with resistances, if you treat holdings as an analogue for Enchantments (not creature enchantments) it seems likely to hold true in the LCG

Clan loyalty somehow manages to be both the greatest and most cancerous aspect of the l5r property.

Eh, i like things like draft and sealed so i prefer the CCG model. LCG's aren't bad though and this version might get my money if it looks like the scene shows back up in my area.

Old dueling rules were hot garbage anyway, through every incarnation of the game it was either ineffective, or might as well be an unconditional kill card, or enabled you to mill your deck better than any CCG ever prior.

I blame ToE for most of how lotus turned out. It was definitely an arc where power levels were up to 11, but ToE cards were the worst part of it.

People can talk trash when their favorite game lasts as long.