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  1. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    On 2017/4/21 at 4:36 PM, shineyorkboy said:

    Crap. I just realized Shiro Hiruma is still in enemy hands.:angry:

    Hey, it gives you guys a goal to aim for straight out of the gate, right? You had better get cracking on liberating that castle!

    I personally will be enjoying the first 5-minutes of story where the Phoenix aren't tainted.

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    I saw the weird "Mori Kuroi" name too, but Rokugan already has a lot of questionable/out-right wrong Japanese established in the setting, and if we wanted to point out and fix it all we'd be here all day (but I'll add that the reboot would have been a really good chance for FFG to fix it all!)

    The capital of the empire is "Dad's House" for the Fortunes' sake.

  6. Posted

    38 minutes ago, Ryoshun Higoka said:

    So, let's broach a topic that has absolutely no disagreement whatsoever... what's everybody think about the new Fate system?

    My first reaction was honestly negative; building up a character or an army or a stronghold or whatever is a fun part of a lot of games. This Fate system means that it looks like we won't get to have that kind of fun in L5R 2.

    That being said, reading a lot of the discussion on the board has got me to thinking about the ways that the mechanic is interesting. There are a lot of things it does for game flow; now, you can do stuff from turn 1. And because the board state is transient, it could mean that there is more chance for come backs even after a few encounters go poorly for you. Since cards are fading out of play anyway, you are not getting too far behind your opponent. It may help prevent the situation where a game's result is already basically decided early on but the two players have to play it out anyway. (The changes to province breaking also help with this, too.)

    So while I'm not sure I like the idea of the mechanic per se (and that is probably due to L5R 1 nostalgia baggage, I will admit) I am looking forward to trying out this fate mechanic and seeing how it plays.

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  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, sndwurks said:

    Kuronohasu

    I like the reading Kokuren for "black lotus" better (it sounds more Buddhist), but it would also then be a homonym for "the United Nations." Another option might be Anren (literally "dark lotus"), but the problem in the end with this discussion is that a lot of L5R names actually already sound silly in Japanese. Basically have you ever seen a Japanese video game or anime with characters who have weird-sounding English-esque names? It's like that.

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  13. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    1 hour ago, WHW said:

    As for writing, just the fact that someone went out of trouble to write Bushidō instead of Bushido colors me optimistic.

    Personally, I found that a bit unnecessary. It is English convention to bring over Japanese words without diacritical marks. I mean, do you realize how much of a pain it's going to be to write forum posts?:P

    But seriously, why spend your time adding diacritics to "Bushido" (a term with an already established no-diacritic-using English spelling) but keep the grammatically backwards word order of "Shiro no Yojin?" Are we going to see "Oni no Akuma" as well? Now this is Rokugani, not Japanese, so it's not going to follow Japanese language rules, but what I'm saying is I'm not sure I'd take the diacritic as a sign that someone "gets it" quite yet. 

  22. Posted

    7 hours ago, Sparks Duh said:

    It wouldn't matter to ANYONE, really. If you want to spend $15/ month for an expansion, that's what you will be paying either way.  Trying to say it's different doesn't make it different. If you're willing to spend $15/ month on an expansion, but the expansion comes out every 3 months, then put $15/ month away and get the expansion with the same amount as you would pay anyway. Math is not hard.

    Human nature is such that a person might balk at a $45 dollar money drop once every three months, but be very willing to do $15 one a month. The math might be the same, but people are sometime just not as "rational" as you might expect when it comes to purchasing decisions. The amount of money over time is the same, but the emotion and thought process behind the individual purchase decisions is different for many people, even if it might not be different for you. Supermarkets sell stuff for $4.99 instead of $5.00 because as much as we objectively realize those prices are basically the same our subconscious minds automatically "feel" $4.99 to be cheaper.

    FFG is going to decide the release schedule that gets them better profits.

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