Questions tagged [l5r]
For questions about Legend of the Five Rings, a fictional setting created by John Wick and published by Alderac Entertainment Group in 1995. It is the basis for both a card game and an RPG, and was also the "featured campaign setting" of the D&D 3e Oriental Adventures expansion. It was acquired by Fantasy Flight Games in 2015. L5R is mainly set in the empire of Rokugan, based roughly on feudal Japan with influences from other East Asian cultures.
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Are there penalties(Mechanical or narrative) for having a ring way higher compared to other rings?
I was theorycrafting a bunch of characters and one concept I came up with was a Moshi Sun Sentinel with five fire ring at the start. Centipede Family +1 Fire Moshi Family +1 Fire Sun Sentinel +2 Fire ...
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How does one work with an adventure Seed in the format of "Challenge-Focus-Strike"?
Legends of the 5 Rings has an established format to pitch "adventure seeds". Those are not fully formed adventures but guidelines to build an adventure around, akin to a writing prompt. They ...
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Is there a price list for goods outside of the core book?
Rokugan is a very varied place, and characters might want to acquire a lot of things that are not covered in the core book. Like, recently I came into the pickle that a painting samurai wanted to ...
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Was the Kitsune Impersonator school ability obsoleted?
Some week ago I finally got my copy of Writ of the Wilds. And reading it, I stumbled over one thing: My beloved Kitsune Impersonator class ability was suddenly made obsolete and overshadowed by a ...
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Ring advancements: can Void Ring be your lowest ring?
On p. 97 of the Legends of the Five Rings 5th edition rulebook it says: Cannot increase a ring to a value greater than lowest ring + Void Ring. Maximum 5. Does this mean that if your Void Ring is 1, ...
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Are there canonical Spell scrolls of unusual material in Rokugan?
In Rokugan, Samurai fight wars with swords on the battlefield and they fight wars with quill and paper. They live in houses of wood and paper, travel with travelling papers (~passports) and in general,...
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Is the living shadow based on any real life myth or story?
L5R is heavily based on Japanese and other Asian philosophy and stories, the story of the Kami, Ametarasu, lord moon etc. Is the Living Shadow (first edition) or Lying Darkness as it is known later ...
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Literacy rate of Rokugani
Rokugan is a setting taking heavy influence from the '80s and '90s perception of medieval Japan (through a north-American lens) and strewing in influences from other East-Asian countries, creating the ...
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Action to use Battle Healing?
Given the text below, my question is: what type of action is it to use this ability (free, simple, complex)? There's a pre-campaign disagreement about this. NEW ADVANTAGE: BATTLE HEALING [MYSTICAL] (...
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What happens when Kitsune Impersonators swap their disguise?
Kitsune Impersonators1 choose a clan and family they depict as in character generation. This solves the main problem of making them, but... The sidebar there also claims they could choose at any ...
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What family does the Kitsune Impersonator belong to?
The 5th edition Emerald Empire book does present the Kitsune Impersonator on page 239 as an option to play a Fox spirit. But it doesn't present any family or clan they belong to or has a rule for ...
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Which sourcebook describes the Fox-clan and the Kitsune-families?
Back in 4th, the Fox clan was a staple minor clan (or branch of the Mantis) and available from in the 4th edition core book. When 5E came around, they revamped the whole character creation process, ...
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How are Void points recovered?
I am playing a game of the newest version (5th edition) of the Legend of the Five Rings RPG. However, I can't find rules in the book regarding how to recover Void points. In older editions, it usually ...
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What are the rules for swimming and holding your breath?
Where do I find rules for swimming/holding breath in L5R 4e? I am preparing to start a game set in the Mantis lands, and one of my players is considering playing an Order of Togashi monk. When we ...
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Is Head Taking a thing in Rokugan?
Head Taking was an unusual custom among Samurai (and before them Chinese nobles) to prove that you killed someone of renown and gain a reward and renown in return. In the Sengoku Jidai, Samurai went ...
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