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  3. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    Though I've not played any LCGs before my image of FFG was that they seem like the type to get their templating and such down rather well. It's heartening to hear that their more recent LCGs appear to be more consistent in terms of card wordings and rulings. 

    While I can easily see how @williamobrien's interpretation in this instance is probably correct (i.e. if you can't dishonor a character then you must bow one), the wording on the cards is such that I could also see a ruling saying that players can "choose" options that they know in advance will fail.

    Maybe this is a good question for the next L5R live? (Though I don't think I've heard an announcement for the next one yet...)

  4. Posted

    7 hours ago, williamobrien said:

    Voice of Honor and Steward of Law are both legit.  Steward solves a lot of problems for Lion.  Drop it before attack if you suspect Shameful Display will ruin your day.  Drop it as a surprise to make For Shame! a bow effect.  Drop it in your opponent's Fire challenge to prevent a key dishonor.  Drop it if you're short on a MIL attack before you bow the stronghold.

    Do we have confirmation that Steward of Law and For Shame! synergize to make For Shame! an automatic bow? This is my first FFG game, so I'm unfamiliar with how they handle selecting effects that cannot be resolved.

  7. Posted

    Nothing really wowed me about these previews, but that is about right, I feel. The Lion as the baseline for what military is feels appropriate. The cards seem solid, aggressive, and honorable.   The flavor appears to be there.

    Unfortunately, the bushi focus of a lot of their conflict cards means I probably won't splash them in my Phoenix decks (unless FFG gives us a more bushi-heavy with shugenja support play style this time around.)

    The Kitsu recursion theme is cool, but makes me wonder if resurrection/rebirth won't be a Phoenix focus, or perhaps what they'll do to make such effects feel different for us.

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  10. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:

    From the Crane perspective ; The Lion are attacking Crane property, they shoot any or all of them in the face and its just another summer day in Toshi Ranbo.

    Right, if he happened to get pin-cushioned at random, then yes, that's just the Price of War (roll credits!)

    But Hotaru specifically targetted him, which it seems would be a bit more grey. It seems like it would at least be disrespectful to not honor a person of Arasou's station with a proper challenge. At any rate, I'm sure that's how the Lion would see it.

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  11. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    I don't know if this has been brought up in this thread yet (so forgive me if it has,) but the more I think about it the more I'm thinking the rest of the empire will likely consider Hotaru an honorless coward.

    Stay with me on this.

    We don't have all the new setting information,  but it seems like specifically sniping an enemy officer, let alone a clan champion, would be the sort of thing that is highly frowned upon in Rokugan. Hotaru calls Arasou out and challenges him to single combat?  Very magical samurai,  very honorable-warrior type stuff. Shoot him down from a safe and distant location ? Okay for a Wasp (duh) but for a Crane it seems like that would be an insult to her opponent, his clan, and his kin.

    Holy crap, I thinking I'm starting to see things Tsuko's way.

    Don't get me wrong, Hotaru's decision was very effective and saved the city from being taken,  but this Rokugan, where honor is (supposed to be) stronger than steel.

    What do other people think? Am I off-base for what Rokugani consider the honorable way to wage war?

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  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, Kuni Katsuyoshi said:

    Your dream was to have a unpreposessing sad-clown as your clan champion, rather than the brave, intellegent and beautiful one that actually did stuff?

    Unless u mean the novel version in which case it was unpreposessing sad-clown that apparently had super powers.

    to each his own.:lol:

    I much prefer Ujimitsu to a guy who would raise a Shadowlands army and let his own son be sacrificed and descrated on a banner to a dark god, but hey, to each his own.:P

    All (light-hearted, really!) joking aside, for me it's not that Tsukune isn't a great character but rather that I was really hoping we'd get to see Ujimitsu do stuff this time around.

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  14. Posted

    5 hours ago, AtoMaki said:

    Didn't he have a rather anticlimactic end in the old canon? Like, he was set ablaze by the dying Master of Fire then fell off from a wall or something?

    It might have been a retcon to make him look cooler in the end, but as I recall he wounded Tsuke (the Master of Fire) or otherwise made an opening for Isawa Tadaka to kill Tsuke, so it is supposed to be that he sacrificed himself to help bring down the corrupt Master of Fire.

  15. Posted

    Yeah, I understand that in theory it's supposed to be a surprise, but I think they could have put something like "Akodo Toturi is thrust into the position of clan champion when his brother dies suddenly" in the original article with nothing lost, I feel. The game hasn't even started yet, it seems strange to me for the intro fiction to make drastic changes to the intro blurb.

    I don't know, I kind of see what they were going for, I just don't feel it was effective.

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  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, AtoMaki said:

    I bet he will replace Shiba Burisagi if they really off him. 

    I really hope that they don't do that; it'd be a rather ignominious end to a character that died a hero in the AEG canon.

    If they really do off Ujimitsu, it makes me wonder what was the point of the whole bait and switch in the first place with not one but two champions (though at least Ujimitsu's death would be surprising.)

    At this point we can't rule out the first Scorpion fiction being the entire Scorpion Clan Coup and Shoju to never get a card. :P

    Obviously I'm kidding about Shoju...I think.

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  23. Posted

    8 hours ago, Mirith said:

    Also, with how splash works, you'll still want the other clans.  I am absolutely certain that most competitive decks will splash at least a little bit out of clan, if only to get that one awesome thing some other clan has to round out your deck.  Unless they make a strong story prize not to splash, there is no reason not to, besides pride/moral victory.

    Obviously we won't know until the game starts, but I think it's very possible that your "splash" clan will be an important and identifying aspect of your deck. Or rather, I kind of hope it is; I'd like to see some themes of clan alliances and such in the game, and the splash mechanic gives an interesting way for that to manifest.

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  24. Posted

    I don't think FFG has released any hard details yet, but they have heavily implied that the main plot will not be influenced to any great extent by story tournament prizes. It sounds like FFG has a story in mind and that they are going to go through with it how they see fit.

    So no more weird tournament results that they will be forced to write into the plot, but as a result perhaps a lesser degree of player influence in the story? That's what it sounds like to me at the moment, but we'll have to wait and see what they actually do.

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