there's a damaged basilisk stats in the F&D core rulebook adventure, if you extrapolate a little with the wookiepedia article, it's easy to have stats for an intact one

use the same rules as astromechs in SoT, with the provision that hyperspace travel is only possible when the starfighter is connected to the hyperspace ring

ah, missed that the issue had been adressed in the FAQ still doesn't seem very logical to me, but offical answer accepted

again, that might be me, but I can't see anything in what you quoted that says that completing a rank/career/title loses you the ability to select the curriculum lower rank or title options when spending xp That's akin to saying that because you're a french cuisine master cook you can't learn a new burger recipe anymore. That's not logically sound anyway

I wasn't under impression that the pages 97-98 about character advancement said anything about not having access anymore to lower rank curriculum options? The restrictions just speak about them being on your curriculum, the table doesn't speak about rank and I just assumed you still had access to lower ranks options even if you advanced Have I missed something?

the engines of ani's podracer have been officially been told in the canon "ultimate star wars" reference book to be heavily customized Radon-Ulzer repulsorlift 620C racing engines so basically,what he's riding can be anything from another RU product to a scavenged engine he welded a seat on

The ethical commission board is composed of director krennic, grand moff tarkin, darth Vader and is headed by the emperor Any suggestion it isn’t perfectly neutral and objective is rebel propaganda and subject to an enquiry from the ISB

knowledge of the force during the imperial era and after is very inconsistent due to Palpatine cracking down on anything jedi related he left several groups that use the force or believe in the force alone if it was politically convenient or they were small enough or they didn't have anything he wanted provided they kept neutral, such as the bardottans and the kel dor native tradition on the other hand, anything that is slightly similar to jedi teaching or directly jedi related is crushed. and most of the galaxy knew little of the force from the beginning, and knew most of it throufgh the lens of the jedi as for religions, he also made them illegal because some of them believed in the force, but this decree was little enforced by the imperials. the church of the force specifically was forbidden and hunted more seriously due to them believing in the force, having teachings very similar of jedi and advocating the jedi order resurrection to bring balance to the force

That gave an excellent space western vibe Speaking with the tusken, the dragon hunt in its lair. Reminded me of kotor episode 2: boba tracks his armor ? Or will it be just an « i’m alive » cameo? Hoping for the 1st option

sorry, but

not quite, the Ise are described as defending the Kitsu shugenja against the spirits that follow them, so specialised against the supernatural, while the Goseki are described as generic yojimbo That said, I tend to agree that a family of yojimbo is a bad fit as Matsu vassals, that doesn't quite fit the Matsu mindset

Oh the RPG was never really in the devs' motivation, it was more an afterthought, an opportunity they took to expand on their CCG sales. So they never really tried to develop its lore as coherent Rokugan and its power balance in lore was defined by the official CCG tournaments' winners. Hence the need they had to find an excuse to remove the previous tournaments winners factions from power in lore and regularly killing old characters so new ones could be sold, which they solved by inventing a cosmic menace nearly every tournament That can work for a CCG. But then try to create a logical RPG setting out of it... Not really very manageable. Hence the RPG lore quickly became a mess

A lot of old gamers aren't actually that dissatisfied with FFG getting the license and resetting the universe. The old RPG/CCG with an apocalypse and lore change every tuesday to account for the CCG tournaments prizes and the frankly stupid directions marketing & the story group were regularly taking the game due to need to sell new cards & blatant story group favoritism were pretty tiring unfortunately with the reset, some good things were inevitably lost too

I chalk it up to the recurring problem of changing editions and owner They don’t dare change too many things lest the older eds grognards go « they changed it so it sucks » and they fear to lose a segment of their customer base

Yeah, well, the 1st ed game is old now and it’s a remnant of 80es near total ignorance of Asian cultures at the time (no internet back then) so nowadays the Asian fantasy kitchen sink remnants wick injected in his design sound like hilarious weeaboo stuff

There's currently no clue in the rpg or ccg if the lying darkness is still a thing that exists. A few ominous in character mentions here & there in the creation myth & ishiken inversions but nothing concrete rule-wise So rather than mentioning it for the sakura family, you could just say they have a pointed interest in ninjas and their strange powers, that's how they started with the kitsuki diary in previous eds

Iirc, it’s the equivalent of a discreet pocket parachute

they occasionally do already while most TCG pictures show people in their clan colors to make their ID more obvious, there ARE pictures of clan members in different colors, here's 2 for example: https://l5r.fandom.com/wiki/Daidoji_Enai https://l5r.fandom.com/wiki/Hira

Ninjawear is a bad example anyway because it has absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever and ninja movies tend to color code for convenience (what's recognized as ninjawear is really an adaptation of the outfit japanese puppet theater stagehands wear)

Well that might be due to an earlier ed stating otherwise, L5r canon did evolve. But as mentioned the last ed before this one stated ubiquitous masks when the scorpions want to announce they’re scorpions

CRB & EE give only basic information on the clans compared to the descriptions in the books so far

I don’t know about current lore (gotta wait until there’s a scorpion book for that I think), but 4th ed « great clans » book spells it clearly : « all scorpion samurai wear masks at all times » regardless of family (page 207, scorpion masks side note)

after a (quick) search into the subject, I could find no animal associated with death in japanese mythology, and the supernatural beings associated with it (izanami, enma and the shinigami) don't have any animal associated with them the closest to the subject I could find was... the butterfly. it is associated with the soul (of the dead and living) in japanese culture

considering he's a guardian of boundaries in the underworld, and the koumori (bat shapeshifters) take it upon themselves to guide/protect the dead in the previous eds' lore, shouldn't the bat be considered for his spirit animal?