MB -Fr-
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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
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ah, missed that the issue had been adressed in the FAQ
still doesn't seem very logical to me, but offical answer accepted
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8 hours ago, Diogo Salazar said:Page 56 first paragraph and last entry in the table at the bottom of the page.
The thing is, you have to pay attention at the general techniques allowed to your school. So let’s say a school doesn’t grant access to kata but your school specifically gives you a rank 2 kata at school rank 1. If you don’t get it at rank 1, you can’t get it when you reach rank 2 anymore because your school doesn’t grant access to overall kata.
7 hours ago, Magnus Grendel said:Ditto for title curricula - once you've 'spent up' and received the title ability, you can no longer buy anything that you got access to only via that title (Emerald Magistrate giving shujenga access to kata, for example)
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
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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?
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3 minutes ago, micheldebruyn said:By the way, am I the only one who just assumed that "custom-built from spare parts" is just normal for podracers, and that what Vanth was riding was not a speeder bike built from a podracer but a speeder bike from the same brand (but newer model) that Annie scavenged his fins from?
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
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34 minutes ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:Ethics review? In Star Wars? What're you smoking??
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
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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
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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
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1 hour ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:Final thoughts and hopes going into Season 2:
Pls no Ahsoka. Or Sabine. Or Bo Katan.
I like them all very much, but I don't want any established characters in The Mandalorian. I want it to stay separate from the other media. And in Bo Katan's case, I'll be disappointed if she isn't dead.
(all of the above is subject to change if handled well or done in particular ways)sorry, but
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1 hour ago, Magnus Grendel said:Right...but that's pretty much what the Ise are described as, and unlike the Goseki they are a Kitsu, not Matsu, vassal family.
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
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2 minutes ago, TheHobgoblyn said:Well-- I mean-- I am sure the Shadowlands/Spider Clan people are bitterly disappointed.
I feel like I have probably been the biggest "complainer" in that I was a big fan of the series in the 1990s, but the more and more I became familiar with Japanese culture and history, the more and more I was kind of angry at the depiction L5R had painted. And so ever since it was announced FFG bought the game, I have been quite vocal in stating that they should change the elements that feel a bit like the setting is demeaning or belittling Japanese people while hiding behind the defense "it's not Japan" despite having co-opted the language, the names, the customs, the attire, and the architecture.
And, really-- somehow the setting has managed to fail to capture the chaotic freedom of the Sengoku period where anyone could imaginably rise to rule the land and the lecherous, erotic fun of the Edo period's floating cities. It's just the most dry and stale elements of both periods. I feel quite certain in saying that the writers felt the need to go so full-tilt with world ending disasters at all times that they never even got past the tip of the iceberg of the kind of fun people could actually have with this setting if only the full richness of possibility were to be embraced.
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
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1 hour ago, Diogo Salazar said:AEG did that, not FFG. FFG just went with the Unicorn Thunder being called Utaku since forever. I mean, there were people that complained about the changes that FFG did. If they left and never came back, well, good riddance, we don’t need this toxicity around the fandom but I would argue about missing the opportunity to enact even MORE change. Granted, some social changes can be harder to sell in a society that is extremely stratified around castes (if not gender anymore).
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
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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
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2 hours ago, TheHobgoblyn said:I don't think anything I wrote particularly precludesHonestly-- it is odd enough to even have "Sakura" as a family name given it is canonically established to be the most generic, boring given pre-gempukku girls' name. Then again-- there is a family called Ichiro too, and a couple that end in "ko", so I guess that sort of sensibility was tossed out long ago.
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
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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
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Iirc, it’s the equivalent of a discreet pocket parachute
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11 minutes ago, Diogo Salazar said:Oh, I know about the origins of it. It’s just that it makes it even more silly when you know the origin of it and how it was taken by movies to a whole new level of silliness. But the color coding still applies anyway. I mean, why can’t a Crane courtier fashionista wear orange or red?
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:
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15 minutes ago, Diogo Salazar said:Besides all the color coding?
I understand colourful dress code and banners for military purposes but it kind of gives me an eye roll when every depiction of a samurai in the card games where you can tell instantly which clan they belong to because of the color of their clothes. I mean, there’s a forking card with a Daidoji Harrier dressed in CELESTIAL BLUE ninjawear. How ridiculous is that?
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)
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21 minutes ago, Diogo Salazar said:There’s only a short reference to masks in the core book when reading about the scorpion clan in general but I might misremember something from 4th edition as @MB -Fr- pointed out specifically in the great clans mention that the clan wears masks all the time because I remember reading something how most Yogo don’t actually wear a mask. (Also, it’s the kind of thing that might look cool on paper but the logistics of this in real life would be a pain).
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
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27 minutes ago, Daeglan said:No we don't. You can look in the core book and Emerald Empire
CRB & EE give only basic information on the clans compared to the descriptions in the books so far
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5 hours ago, Diogo Salazar said:Actually they don’t go about telling that. And about the mask, I am sure that the Bayushi follow this tradition to a greater degree and the rest not so much.
Of course, the lore says one thing and the art in the cards might say another.Also, that is extremely clanist 😂
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)
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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
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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?
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Tbh I wouldn’t allow it
this seems to go counter to RAI. I would maybe, MAYBE allow it for a rank 6 swordsman instead of using the mastery ability since it would be somewhat in tune with what they were going for but not earlier
Occam’s razor about the rules : way of the dragon forbids you using your 2nd weapon for an attack action, twin stream activates for attack action, ergo you’re trying to use your 2nd weapon as a part of an attack action, which is forbidden
that’s how I interpret it
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Any word from Edge Studios???
in Star Wars: Force and Destiny RPG
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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