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Good evening everyone!

I know I don't have the best track record for games running beyond a few months, but I'm making sure that this is the only game I am GMing. And I hope it can be a bit of fun, especially for the resident L5R GM Rain Yupa!

Since I only really have 4th Edition books, either in .pdf version or as hardcopy I would rather use it over 3eR. Sorry if this messes you up.

I've been playing L5R on and off for a while, and still consider myself a noob, however I hope that won't get in the way of us having fun. If you can ignore my lack of knowledge and occasional screw ups, I would love to run this game.

Let me know if you are interested.

Background to give you some inclination for characters...a snippet only.

The first RP day is the 20th day of the month of the Tiger (March), and the New Year approaches rapidly. The last days of winter are passing you by, and so far Rokugan has reached a sort of peace again, even if it feels rather uneasy considering the chaos that ensured during the Race for the Throne towards the end of 1200IC, only a year or two ago. Currently Empress Iweko the First sits on the throne.

Each of your characters is currently serving a clan/family (sorry, this means no ronin), and has been doing so for many years to the point that your opinion is considered very highly by the Lord. Your quick and well formed words in court might have earned your Lord great honor and propelled your Clan forward. Your sword has probably slain his enemies, you may even be of higher rank within his Armies. Or you may have even stopped an assassination attempt on his life. You are a close friend, someone they trust. Perhaps (depending on if your Family's leader is currently the Clan Daimyo) the Daimyo calls upon you often for council, or simply enjoys partaking in a tea ceremony or game of chance.

This is all you know currently...but tomorrow the winds bring bad news.

Right, as for the rules...

1. As long as a Clan still exists (1202 IC), you can use it, however I'm only allowing two magic users (first in best dressed), and no maho.
2. You have 120 XP to spend, however I don't want to see any Traits (eg Stamina, Agility etc) above 4. And no more than two skills at rank 7, and three at rank 5. Be reasonable with the rest...if I see twenty skills at rank 1 I might ask you to curb your wide knowledge base.
3. Maximum of 10 XP gained from Disadvantages. Maximum of 10XP spent on Advantages.
4. You can have starting Koku + 4 to resemble your time gathering status/koku (Advantages that give you more koku add onto this). And add 1 to your starting Status. People kinda know you based on your past deeds.
5. You can use Kata, but only pick 1.
6. Everyone gets a travelling pack, and the usual choice of items.


This should help keep it somewhat simple for me! Let's hope.

If I can get five people, I'll ask Rain if I can get a subforum (eg clean out and refurbish one of the ones I failed to get off the ground previously).

Let Rain have a quick chance to reply to this, and if he's cool with it then I'd love if we could continue using his premade Character sheet layout. It's perfection after all.





The heavens themselves seem to part, and from high above, a ray of divine light shines down upon the opening post of this thread. With a voice of equal omniscience and conviction, a response bellows to the mortals bearing witness:

"VERILY."

*is interested*

I'll come up with a character soon. smile

I had meant, do you want all of us to make characters from the same Clan, all from different clans, or it really doesn't matter?

Also if it helps, Iweko I became Empress in 1170. smile A few wars happened between then and now, with some of the biggest things of note is Daigotsu replaced Fu Leng as Dark Lord of Jigoku and the Spider Clan became a Major Clan because of it, and that the old Ivory Kingdoms where the Destroyer army of Kali-Ma had come from are now the Imperial Colonies, with two types of Rokugani citizens occupying them: Those looking for fame fortune treasure and adventure, and those who are members of Great Clans that they wouldn't mind sweeping under the rug, in this case they get the honor of helping colonize!

But you can easily have it with Iweko becoming Divine Empress and handwaiving the rest as never happened.

Okay cool. Then I'm totally good to play my Yasuki without worry! COURTIER AWAY!

Cleaned it out, renamed that same subforum.

Also, a snippet of my character concept from Trillian:

I have the basic threads set up here, once you have a basic character worked out, please post it here, not in this thread.

Technically its just reusing an old subforum of mine that died...I think that's one reason I was allowed.

It's possibly also because this game is so Rain himself can RP in the L5R setting, so even if its just him, I'd do the campaign.

Since I've never had a 4e heritage before, Imma chance it and roll it!

Crab heritage table, p293 of Great Clans:

7 - Illustrious Past
4 - Your ancestor single-handedly turned back an enemy during a siege. His deeds still bring fame to your family today. Gain 1.0 Glory.

Okay, I posted the nitty-gritty mechanical bits of the character sheet. I need to crash, so the flavorful stuff happens probably tomorrow!