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  1. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    2 hours ago, JJ48 said:

    As someone else already mentioned, it also helps with the setting.  Suppose we have non-unique Hida Kyoubou:  a guy who rages and gets stronger the more conflicts he's in.  Is he representative of a group that does that, or is he rather singular in that way?  Call him Hida Berserker instead, and suddenly it's clear that there exist a group of these guys within the Crab clan.

    Interesting; I actually find that it works in the opposite direction. I thinking having multiple named cards that are berserkers makes it clearer that there exists a group, unless there are multiple variations of the "Hida Berserker" title / card-type.

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  2. Posted

    One minor thing I noticed was that after combat resolution, Brad only bowed his character and not also the attachments on the character. Coming from Old5R I had just assumed the entire unit bowed after conflict, but it looks like you can use a unit with attachments in a conflict and then still use those attachments for bow abilities later in the turn.

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    1 hour ago, Ide Yoshiya said:

    Just wait until there are multiple versions of unique characters. That'll be a treat...

    Thinking of them as Old5R experience levels should be fine. And if they don't do overlay rules it will actually be easier in this FFG version (and I don't think they will do overlay; I assume it'll be the same "discard for fate" as long as the cards have the same titles.)

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  4. Posted

    3 hours ago, Ide Yoshiya said:

    I could be wrong, but hasn't a card already been previewed that reveals Yojimbo is still a character trait?

    Yeah, but what are they going to call him? If it was "Loyal Yojimbo" or "Veteran Yojimbo" there is some room to work, but now we have THE one and only Shiba Yojimbo. The template from which all Shiba yojimbo are wrought. 

     

    3 hours ago, Ide Yoshiya said:

     

    Well, she'd have an orange template emblazoned with the Phoenix mon either way, so...

     

    But she wouldn't have a mon in a text card list or when I bring up the card name in conversation. 

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  5. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    An Old5R player here (and we've done this discussion here before, but why not again?)

    I am much more in favor of naming every character card like in the old CCG, though I'll just have to get used to generic names in the new LCG.

    A number of posters have made the point that generic names make it easier to identify what personalities are quickly, but I'm not actually sure it'll be much different than we used to do when we'd say stuff like "Oh Isawa Tomo. That's the water guy that moves people?" or "Shiba Danjuro...he's the yojimbo that takes actions for shugenja, right?" Generic names won't really change having to explain what a character is mechanically when you bring them up; I don't think it's functionally different to name a card "Seeker of Knowledge" or "Isawa Natsumi" if we will inevitably follow that up with "the shugenja that adds the Air ring?" If we want to know she also seeks knowledge, art and flavor text can give us pretty much that same information. And with a name like "Isawa" we already know with a good amount of certainty what clan she is in.

    (There's also the question of will the Shiba only ever get one yojimbo now that we know "Shiba Yojimbo" is a card name?)

    Now, one good thing about the generic names is that the old way did end up with a number of keywords that would confuse new players (for example, "Master of Water"), and moving those sorts of things up to the card title does make the text box less dense.

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  7. Posted

    5 hours ago, shosuko said:

    Well... who said he costs 5 fate?  IF Ujimitsu is a conflict character then he may not cost 5.

    That was the point I was making: your conjecture that he could be a low-cost champion (with Tsukune as the high-cost dynasty character) would likely be on the mark if as champion he was in the conflict deck, as (among other reasons) a five-fate conflict card would be difficult to surprise people with.

    I not optimistic that we'll see him at all at this point, I fear, but if he gets an arrow to the head shot by Hotaru on Wednesday I'm calling shenanigans.

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  8. Posted

    Just now, Mon no Oni said:

    I think Ujimitsu will probably be a conflict Character, which would be a call back to his wonky mechanics. Probably not as big as the other Champions, to compensate for the surprise factor, and that's why Tsukune will be there  as THE big dynasty character to make up for that.

    Also, a five fate conflict character would be really difficult to surprise people with.

    "Why are you banking five fate?"

    "...no reason."

  9. Posted

    Interesting point on the unique/non-unique Ujimitsu theory there: So far (other than Crane) each clan has only had three unique characters (which also means "named characters" so far.) Isawa Masahiro has been revealed, and Tsukune spoiled perhaps by accident, and we know there is art for an elderly shugenja with a name (Isawa Atsuko or something?) That would be three uniques, which would otherwise preclude Ujimitsu, unless he becomes the only non-unique but named card in the core set.

    I'm not getting my hopes up for seeing a card for Ujimitsu, but it would be nice.

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  10. Posted

    FIIIIIIIIRE CHICKEEEEEEEENS!

    Getting hyped!

    2 hours ago, Anemura said:

    2. Shugenja and Bushi synergy. A deck type AEG never got right, IMO. 

    And how. Every time they tried to do it (at least through Lotus) we ended up with samurai that were overpriced for their stats and abilities if you didn't have a shugenja, or were just at baseline with other clans' samurai if you did have a shugenja. It always felt like AEG was too worried about making overly powerful Samurai/Shugenja interactions for the Phoenix, and so everything was nerfed instead.

  12. Posted

    #7 Shiba Tsukune - Because I played under AEG too long and now I just assume our champ will always be meh. Also I have doubts that her ability will be good enough to make up for her having less raw stats than all the other champions we've seen so far (Yokuni 10, Hotaru/Toturi/Kisada 9, Tsukune 8.) Though I'll still play her in all my decks out of a sense of clan/character loyalty.

    Of course, the spoiler we've seen of Tsukune could be wrong, and she might not even be champ, and FFG might pleasantly surprise me, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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  17. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    Mirabu became champion after the end of the Four Winds era, basically because somebody had to do it and he never rocked the boat, which I'm sure the council liked.

    But after Tsukune ascended in early Four Winds era (and took the Soul of Shiba with her) there was a champion void for a while. Aikune seemed like a good choice for the position, and sort of filled that spot for some of the player base, but was ultimately never given it (presumably because Taeruko didn't like him and he was too strong willed and unpredictable/unstable for the council's liking.) They also hadn't figured out what they were going to do without the Soul of Shiba at that point.

  18. Posted

    But more on topic, does any clan really NEED more than three families?

    But if you were to do it I suppose making Asako mainly monks and  then getting a new courtier family would be enough.

    Or perhaps move all the courtiers over to the Shiba, making the Shiba the family that interacts with outsiders while the Isawa and Asako focus on their spiritual duties/research, etc. Conceptually this would mesh with the already present Shiba bushi focus; military is just another aspect of "dealing" with outsiders.

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  22. Posted · Edited by Suzume Tomonori

    There is a debate to be had about high fantasy vs. low, and it comes down a lot to personal preference for the kind of setting you want, I think. Though at the very least high-fantasy shugenja flying over battlefields hurling fireballs is more exciting and probably a better seller, I'll admit.

    But I'd like to see something like a story where there's a group of emerald magistates and it's the Shiba who always holds up the group praying and leaving offerings at every tiny little shrine or statue of a fortune on the road, just because as a Phoenix respecting every tiny kami was the way he was raised. That sort of thing is tiny, but can lend itself to a clan identity.

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