[L5R LCG] Imperial cycle has releases faster than One Punch Man fight scenes.

cckerberos · October 2018

They initially came with every issue of the Imperial Herald, but they kind of fell by the wayside and became increasingly infrequent as the game went on.

Athenor · October 2018

We just got in our S3 kit!

goddamn. Wooden role markers, "Ability" tokens, a single Tears of Amaterasu mat, and just a TON of awesome cards. Oh, and the scorpion plastic favors.

tzeentchling · October 2018

I just bought all the L5R stuff. New cards, novella, RPG, GM screen, the whole shebang. They pleasantly threw in 3 full-art Miya Satoshis too.

Tested out a Phoenix denial deck with Support of the Scorpion. 5 more influence of Scorpion cards gets you some good stuff. Wrecked a Crane and a Unicorn, both with dishonor but I had commanding positions in both games.

WingedWeasel · October 2018

How do learn to play style events work for this game at bigger events? It was on the radar for my wife and I to try at pax unplugged. Since then the schedule has filled quickly with other stuff but I want to make an effort to give it a try if there is time

PMAvers · October 2018

https://twitter.com/FFGames/status/1050778387021742081

EDIT: Also a Lion event spoiler from their AMA: Hand to Hand.

Athenor · October 2018

THIS. IS. ROKUGAN!

... yay more attachment hate!

PMAvers · October 2018

...I just realized it's basically Standoff, since it keeps going until someone doesn't blow up a attachment.

PMAvers · October 2018

Dragon letter’s up:

https://twitter.com/FFGames/status/1052576235681853440?s=20

Athenor · October 2018

The spoiled card is bonkers too.

HamHamJ · October 2018

I honestly can't say if that is unplayable jank or super op.

Athenor · October 2018

HamHamJ wrote: »

I honestly can't say if that is unplayable jank or super op.

For a faction that thrives on cycling through attachments? I love it, especially as it has the potential to screw over my opponent as well. I, as a Unicorn player, like to sit around 15-20 cards in my hand. It's why I hate that damned "discard down to 4" province of theirs.

PMAvers · October 2018

Oh hey, there's the updated tournament regulation document.

Article up talking about some of the changes:

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/10/17/the-path-of-knowledge/

The new End of Round stuff seems to be in there, too. 65-minute round timers, if no one concedes at that point they keep going until the end of the next regroup phase or the timer hits 75 minutes. At 70 minutes, last-call for slips. After that point, anyone who turns in a slip and loses gets modified loss. At 75 minutes, hard stop and you use the tiebreaker rules to get a modified win.

PMAvers · October 2018

I’d post a link to the Crane “letter,” but I try not to handle fecal matter with my bare hands.

PMAvers · October 2018

Well, that was fun. Ended up going 1-3 tonight (actually had enough to go four rounds, which was cool). Slammed into my worst match-ups against 2 Crane and a Phoenix, which... sucked. But I *did* have Most Honorable all four games, so moral victory: me. Voice of Honor/Against the Waves would always show up at the worst possible time to hose me.

Did take three provinces in one turn against a Dragon player, though. toot toot.

Definitely wishing I had taken the time to update my deck with the new personality from the Scorpion pack, though.

PMAvers · October 2018

Article up talking about Role selection...

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/10/22/the-role-of-player-choice/

And that when picking roles, you cannot get either of the roles that you currently have.

...and also mentions that Feast or Famine will be going on the Restricted list shortly after worlds.

Athenor · October 2018

Was just coming to post this.

While I love Feast or Famine as a trap card, my playstyle just needs Charge. Though... FoF to some wussy card like a Force of the River token is always fun to do to my opponents.

HamHamJ · October 2018

The role vote process seems really stupid. If 40% of people want Keeper of Water, and 30% each want Seeker of Fire or Seeker of Void, the clan end up with Seeker of Water which no one wanted?

Roles continue to be a huge Albatros around the neck of this game.

ChaosHat · October 2018

40% of people wanted it I don't see how you can say nobody wanted it. Seems better than the guy who forefited Dragon Hatamoto trying to win worlds as Scorpion so he could hate pick their role.

Otherwise I still think it's kind of cool that doing well at worlds has a mechanical effect on the game.

tzeentchling · October 2018

ChaosHat wrote: »

40% of people wanted it I don't see how you can say nobody wanted it. Seems better than the guy who forefited Dragon Hatamoto trying to win worlds as Scorpion so he could hate pick their role.

Otherwise I still think it's kind of cool that doing well at worlds has a mechanical effect on the game.

Not quite, there's a big difference between Seeker of Water and Keeper of Water which this current voting method doesn't really take into account. It's definitely weird when you break it down like that.

I do like that Worlds performance leads to changes in the game, but I also do feel like role restriction is a big frustration for competitive play.

ChaosHat · October 2018

tzeentchling wrote: »

ChaosHat wrote: »

40% of people wanted it I don't see how you can say nobody wanted it. Seems better than the guy who forefited Dragon Hatamoto trying to win worlds as Scorpion so he could hate pick their role.

Otherwise I still think it's kind of cool that doing well at worlds has a mechanical effect on the game.

Not quite, there's a big difference between Seeker of Water and Keeper of Water which this current voting method doesn't really take into account. It's definitely weird when you break it down like that.

I do like that Worlds performance leads to changes in the game, but I also do feel like role restriction is a big frustration for competitive play.

Ohhh I didn't notice the change there. My baaad. Yeah that's weird.

PMAvers · October 2018

https://twitter.com/FFGames/status/1055111869910933506

Fire Chicken clan letter is up.

And a spoiler, Sage of Gisei Toshi.

PMAvers · October 2018

https://twitter.com/FFGames/status/1055870433503920128

Kisada doesn't mince words.

Also a spoiler from the Crab AMA: Heavy Ballista

tzeentchling · October 2018

Surprise! Terrible defensive Crab card with way too many restrictions for a poor effect!

The devs have learned nothing.

admanb · October 2018

That art is fucking terrible. How do you draw a firing ballista, two armored soldiers, and a demon and make them all look completely motionless?

PMAvers · October 2018

Scorpion letter's up.

The accompanying spoiler...

And also a holiday fiction, Small Mercies.

PMAvers · November 2018

Oh yeah, and in case anyone's at Worlds this weekend and happens to snag one of the silver Yoritomos, I'll totally buy one off you. Let me know in a PM and we can talk price.

PMAvers · November 2018

Oh hey, the rare weekend article is up, talking about the next Kotei series.

https://twitter.com/FFGOP/status/1059133834694979584

And also a new fiction leading into it, Imperial Gifts.

EDIT: There's also a article in there, Imperial Treasures, talking about the prize support for the next Kotei series.

Man it feels weird seeing the False Ring icons again.

EDIT DEUX: One for the Elemental Challenges prize support as well.

PMAvers · November 2018

And it sounds like Crane took Worlds.

Story choices:

Crane: Seeker of Fire, Kakita Kaezin

Scorpion: Seeker of Air, Yogo

Dragon: Seeker of Void, Kitsuki

Crab: Keeper of Water, Yasuki

Phoenix: Keeper of Air, Asako

Lion: Keeper of Earth, Kitsu

Unicorn: Seeker of Water, Moto

tzeentchling · November 2018

Yeah, I thought for sure Scorpion had it, I know Shen is a great player, but Crane somehow managed to pull it out. Good for them!

PMAvers · November 2018

I'm actually kind of excited to be able to run a water role, there's some interesting stuff in there.

Plus it means I get to cram more Mantis in my deck.

Athenor · November 2018

Hmm. Most of the story choices were made targeting the last family, the one that was kind of the weird/wild choice.

PMAvers · November 2018

A couple of spoilers got released from FFG France from Children of the Empire.

Nice to see that Yakamo remembers how to d-d-d-d-duel.

italianranma · November 2018

Speaking of story and story choices, I'm reading through the fiction in order to prep for an L5R RPG campaign. I found a helpful post on the FFG forum that lays out all the fiction chronologically and also includes some PDFs that aren't on the fiction webpage for some reason. I missed out on a few and so I've decided to read them all again from the start. That being said, I'm not seeing the reason behind the conflict at Toshi Ranbo (other than its name is literally "City of Violence")? My understanding is that it's a city that fluctuates between Lion and Crane control, but I'm having trouble reconciling how that is possible in the structure of the Empire if war between clans is illegal, or at the very least requires Imperial sanction. Is there a certain point where small-scale violence becomes war and a lot of gray area in-between for clan politics? I get that it's one of the ongoing mysteries as to why the Imperial August Majesty Hantei the XXXVIII (infused with the righteous power of heaven) is allowing the conflict to continue, but I'd like to know what factors surround this decision. Is this simply part of the scheming to prevent any single clan from becoming too powerful? What does Toshi Ranbo represent to the Lion and Crane? Is the Lion in a powerful enough state to have war on two (or potentially more) fronts as well as endure potential imperial censure and still function as a great clan? Hopefully a lot of this material is explored in the upcoming setting book.

cckerberos · November 2018

italianranma wrote: »

I'm having trouble reconciling how that is possible in the structure of the Empire if war between clans is illegal, or at the very least requires Imperial sanction. Is there a certain point where small-scale violence becomes war and a lot of gray area in-between for clan politics?

This has always been a weak point of the setting. It doesn't make sense to have a country with an all-powerful monarch which virtually everyone is loyal to and a bunch of regional competing military powers. AEG never figured out how to balance this so always had to keep coming up with reasons for the Emperor to be missing, dead, incompetent, stricken with illness, etc. Maybe FFG will be able to do better.

I don't believe that there's an explanation for the current continuity. In the old canon, it was said that the Imperials tolerated/instigated a certain amount of fighting between the clans because samurai are gonna samurai and keeping the clans divided made it easier to maintain Imperial dominance.

tzeentchling · November 2018

Toshi Ranbo apparently lies along an important trade route. In addition, you have competing claims to the land based on its history (think about anything in the middle east and how different people claim it as their rightful home). What we've seen so far is more skirmishes than outright war - if it escalates too significantly, then yes, the Emperor steps in, but otherwise it isn't worth their time. It's kind of Bushido writ-large - for the Crane to take the city from the Lion is an insult to the Lion's honor, and therefore they are allowed within their code of conduct to take it back, but then the Crane courtiers suggest that it was done improperly or there's a better reason for the Crane to take control and hence it's decreed back to them. Repeat ad infinitum, or until one side gets bored/stops caring/actual war breaks out.

PMAvers · November 2018

Oh hey, there was a spoiler from the Unicorn clan pack in today's voting article.

Athenor · November 2018

The question marks in the pack kind of reveal the clan pack's name: Children of the Wind.

PMAvers · November 2018

Athenor wrote: »

The question marks in the pack kind of reveal the clan pack's name: Children of the Wind.

I think they did that just to mess with people, since that’s not it.

It’s Warriors of the Wind.

Because it was just announced.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/11/28/warriors-of-the-wind/

And the novella to go with it, Across the Burning Sands.

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/11/28/across-the-burning-sands/

Oh my god that alt-Art Shono is boss as HELL.

Athenor · November 2018

Hey.. Warriors and Children have the same number of letters! So whoever thought of that gets partial credit!

That said?

*DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL*

HamHamJ · November 2018

The new stronghold is bonkers. 10 fate per turn !

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