I primarily have my Creature Collection thread here that I will have to relocate. The document itself is on my personal server and thus safe, but I'll have to see where I can advertise it to L5R players.
@KakitaKaori If you have a place for my Collection, I would be grateful if you hosted it.

Well what an announcement. 😩
This hit me twice as hard because I always spend my time between here and the SW forums.
I will really miss the camaraderie in the forums, it was really a hub for creative minds to share their rpg creations, read good fiction and learn from other products and personal projects.
If you excuse me now I’ll light some incense and shred my biwa to remove my strife...

That s*cks and it is a big mistake, usually this kind of forum is the first entry point when you want to get info on any products.
I miss the AEG time with almost regular news on what the next book will looks like. There is no longer com on what's next and it feels like it is just about "wow new book! much amazing! such content buy it ! Wow!"

That s*cks and it is a big mistake, usually this kind of forum is the first entry point when you want to get info on any products.
I miss the AEG time with almost regular news on what the next book will looks like. There is no longer com on what's next and it feels like it is just about "wow new book! much amazing! such content buy it ! Wow!"

It's called D1-C3, and was originally for Star Wars, but can do L5R and Genesys, too.

I believe now that Fantasy Flight is a subsidiary of Asmodee, it's Asmodee that owns the license, and they're moving RPG development to a different subsidiary, Edge, while FFG continues focusing on card and miniature games.
EDIT: So FFG will keep working on the LCG and probably the fiction (not sure entirely). If they do any more games with the license not tied to the RPG, like another board game or a miniature game, FFG may handle that as well.

Way back when the first announcement about FFG stopping doing RPGs came out, various people made comments about not worrying, and also that they would release what they were already most of the way through.  I forget where it was but one comment was that Magic was next, then War.  AKA Phoenix and Lion for people who were making guesses.
Now, since then Edge has got involved, but FFG have announced Celestial Realms, which is a book with Magic and Phoenix in it.  But with everything else that has gone on, that could mean absolutely nothing!

I was expecting a Dragon Clan book with info on the Lying Darkness. Next time then

It is a pleasure to see Ishiken do coming back and the adventure of deceased PC is original, I hope we will have some info on the Yobanjin tribes given the Kaito origins :3

- Next creature: The Okuri Inu, ghost-hounds mentioned in Emerald Empires in the Shinomen description.

And as an added bonus, I gave the Head Hunter in my PDF a creepy picture, I thought it deserved one...

I feel that L5R 5th lacks a Monster Manual. Sure, the play-style isn't dungeon-crawling like in other systems, but I always liked having a manual with an interesting creature or two to inspire a short sidequest. Ravenloft excelled at that, with creatures that were both interesting and complex enough to keep a group occupied for an evening.
Especially Emerald Empires let me down in this regard, with over a dozen creatures spelled out in all details, but all of them simple human NPCs. I can easily improvise a human NPC, something more uncommon would have been much more useful. Shadowlands offered a number of good creatures, but of course, most are confined to the Shadowlands.
So I thought we could design and share some here, as inspiration and help for other gamemasters.
I'll start it off with a few creatures, inspired from different sources and ideas (no warrantry that that is how the official creature would look, or that it is true to ancient folk traditions).
Since printing out web pages is a headache, I also compiled all my monster into a single PDF document, with some GM remarks and adventure ideas each. I'll update the PDF whenever I design a new one. Of course, I will also post them down-thread:
Strange Creatures of Rokugan.pdf
HERE THERE BE MONSTERS:
- the undead ninjas called Akikage

- The Con-Tinh, a beautiful princess alone in the woods, which somehow does not behave like a princess at all.

- the Head Hunter, the most horrifying moster of the old D&D Ravenloft Denizens of Darkness:

- the terrible Hopping Vampire, mainstay of Hongkong Wuxia cinema

- the Jinmenju, or Death-Head Tree:

- the Jorōgumo, a spider-woman that enchants its victims (details inspired by the Rising Sun boardgame creature)

Details on the Jorogumo:
The Jorōgumo doesn't just go around charming anyone and then ask them to kill their family.
It will choose a solitary person, a woodcutter or boy collecting firewood. It will charm him from hiding, reavealing herself afterwards, and the person sees an otherworldly beauty that tells him she is a messanger fromn the Fortunes or the Kami, sent to gather a few humans to save from the imminent catastrophe. She will show him a vision of the catastrophe (with False Realm of the Fox Spirits), as well as a vision of the near-paradise that awaits him and his family - if they prove themselves worthy of the new world. To trest that, she will have to ask him to do a few things, that will surely hurt her more than him, but are necessary to prove his devotion to the Fortunes, the Kami, and her.
The first few things she asks for a small transgressions, without logic or rhyme - steal a broom or a comb from that woman, tell everybody that that woman is an evil witch... and of course do not talk about me. Only later become the demands worse, all with the intention of getting the family to go into the woods, alone or in groups of two, into the protected paradise. What awaits them, of course, is a spider cocoon and an egg, to feed the next generation of Jorōgumo.
Even if the PCs quickly find out that the affected is charmed by a creature, he only knows that she is a beautiful woman, and where he saw her in the woods. Actually finding her and getting her to stand and fight is not easy for a creature that can run up trees.
In battle, if the charmed person is there, she will order him (not an action) to kill her attackers. If he does not do that on his turn, it will cause him 3 Strife for defying his ninjo. The jorogumo will try to avoid attacking him, but attack others in Fire stance und use Opportunities to cause him 2 Strife, driving him towards unmasking.
It is a crafty and smart opponent that will use its abilities to greatest effect: sitting on a ceiling, cliff or tree and pulling foes up, only to drop them, pushing foes into traps, over edges or into damaging terrain, covering pitfalls with False Realm of the Fox Spirits, turning invisible with Cloak of Night and attacking from hiding... A Jorogumo should not be underestimated.
- the water yokai Kappa

- the Komainu, or Lion Dog, guarding shrines (and chinese restaurents). Also a Rising Sun boardgame monster.

Komainu adventure idea: the PCs could be called to a local shrine because the resident kami seems to be unhappy, throwing stuff around every now and then.
Investigating, the PCs might find out that a group of burglers tried to rob the shrine a few weeks back, but were chased off when the komainu activated (their claw marks can still be seen near the front steps). Unnoticed, the spirit of a recently deceased local woman entered the shrine at the same time, with the wards down, and became trapped inside when the Komainu returned. It is her spirit that has caused the recent commotion.
The PCs will have to activate the Komainu long enough for her to leave without destroying them, as they are parts of the shrine. Aand, for bonus points, find out what keeps the spirit in this world, and solve that problem.
- The Living Blade, a deadly remnant of a bloodthirsty killer:

- the Long dragon, creature of legend and myth. Not really a PC adversary, but any Far-Eastern RPG should have it available.

- a transfer from KanThaiPan, the far-eastern setting of Germany's oldest RPG "Midgard": The Metal-Eating Rabbit PeiTju.

- The fearsome Tengu Swordmaster. Many young samurai dream of seeking one out in his mountaintop refuge and becoming his pupil, but those that actually do often come to regret the decision.

- The venerable Terracotta Soldier:

- the Ubume, a sad woman only wanting to share her burden

- The White-Haired Witch, another Hongkong Cinema mainstay:

I was expecting a Dragon Clan book with info on the Lying Darkness. Next time then

It is a pleasure to see Ishiken do coming back and the adventure of deceased PC is original, I hope we will have some info on the Yobanjin tribes given the Kaito origins :3

Just to note: if you're on, say, 9/10 fatigue and take 3 fatigue, you don't suffer a critical strike.
You suffer a critical strike if already on 11+ fatigue and are hit again.
 

T'is only a flesh wound.

I was expecting a Dragon Clan book with info on the Lying Darkness. Next time then

It is a pleasure to see Ishiken do coming back and the adventure of deceased PC is original, I hope we will have some info on the Yobanjin tribes given the Kaito origins :3

A real map of Rokugan neighboring lands with more stuff. The one from LotBS was  quite empty sadly.
Ronin shugenja sounds nice and why not some elements for adults shugenja like the ability awaken later for some people.
 

This will be my last comment on this thread: I will leave the last word to you. You posted a message that had no content or value other than sneering at someone for making a post that you claimed had no value. Then you insulted them personally. If you can't tell that your posting was deliberately offensive then I feel sorry for you and anyone who has to deal with you on a regular basis.

I'm sure I remember seeing something like this before, but I couldn't find it,
So, here's my own, included are:
Clan Mon for all of the clans that seem to be playable right now, Dice Symbols, Talent Symbols, Ring Mon And a couple of miscellaneous symbols You'll need to paste the symbols in from the character map or similar,

Have fun,
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