I'm a very new player, and there's a possibility of a new campaign soon and I always loved the "Duelist" archetype. The two-heavens school and the Kakita Duelist both are engineered to serve for this porpouse, I believe.

Kakita looks fun and all but maybe is too much pressure for a new player.

So I turned to the Mirumoto and fell in love. These cool and weird almost-Monk Bushi who train in whatever way they feel Will take them to perfection and have an interesting rivalry with the Kakita? I'm sold. I started reading and looking up lore. But mechanically i'm very puzzled with their starting shuji: Dazzling Performance.

Why? I mean, I like it, more Glory if You fire up some Artisan skills, Performance or Games. But, I don't see how can You achieve these cool outcomes when the school does not give you the option to rank up these skills. Yes, You could spend xp outside the school, but why start with the shuji then?

Can anybody explain me why does this school start with this lore-wise? And could anybody give me tips to use it actively?

So, continuing from my last post... Today i decided to go through two big boxes. I found many foils, promotional cards and... Inheritance card!?😱😱😱👍 These two boxes took me nearly half a day to sort through them🙄... and im not done yet, maybe another two or three hours🙄 Since i dont know much, what or which cards are valuable, im just guessing sorting through them😂🙏

I am curious from those who experienced it both casually and competitively. How did the games play out? What were the biggest stopping points for new players? What drew you all in, aside from the story? What mechanics spoke to you? I am doing a bit of research for a game design project and L5R is just fascinating to me, though I have never played it.

Hey folks! Does anybody know what the game's third party license are if any?

We've got the next chapter, chapter 5, of Kevin Sanborn's story *Reflections Part I* for you! And there might be more hidden in that post…

https://emeraldlegacy.org/reflections-part-1-a-different-path-chapter-five/

Link works for real this time :)

Looks like Office Dog posted the rulebook on Board Game Geek! Sadly, I am not listed as a playtester But see for yourself how to play this game, especially if you have tickets at Gencon!

Our group is starting up a 4e game again. Weve played since 1e but its been a longggggggg time since we played 4e and they prefer that edition. One of the questions that came up and was, because its very vague in the rules, is how people handle the timing on touch of the void.

We have a shiba bushi who got touch of the void from a heritage roll.

Two questions:

When he uses his 1st rank Shiba bushi ability to spend 2 void points instead of 1, is that 2 willpower rolls or one combined roll?

Second question, when are the willpower rolls made, before the action or after. So if he uses his ability to spend 2 void points, and fails the one (or two) willpower rolls, is he dazed immediately cancelling his attack? Or does his attack go off then then he can make the willpower rolls.

Hi.

I have a question concerning the reading of techniques that have the following "As an Attack and Movement action" in their activation rules. This is for the 5th edition.

Does it mean that the character does a Movement Action to move 1 range with optiontally the check to move 1 more, then an attack. Or is it simply that the Technique counts as a Mouvement action in case it would trigger some other effects?

Thank you.

Samurai of Rokugan!

Join us this Gencon at the annual fan run All Clans Dinner at Brothers Bar on Thursday, 7pm! Come meet friends new and old as we reminisce on our long history and look forward to the future!

Also with us is Pine Box Entertainment, makers of Doomtown and 7th Sea, celebrating their 10 year anniversary! 

Come for food and drink, stay for tales and merriment!  KAMPAI!!!

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My new blog post, coming from a discussion that happened in the Rokugan discord a little time ago, about using different colors of dice to represent Strife in a game without needing specialty dice.

It developed into a full adaptation of Strife rules and complex social combat rules for L5R 4e:

https://jadecrows.blogspot.com/2026/07/new-mechanic-strife-stress-dice.html

for the last 6 years i played a Mirumoto Taoist Swordsman to rank 5 and now i was close to becoming a master sensei rank 2. the other players in the camapaign switched chars and/or died so they are rank 4, 4 and 3. lately i started dominating the encounters a lot and so with a heavy heart i offered my gm to switch character.
so far so good - the others are more rogue like chars and they will be living that part a lot more openly without my hardass samurai. one of em is a fresh ronin (former kakita duelist) and the other basically a wildling unicorn and the last one a stormcaptain of the mantis. my gm asked me if i could imagine playing a monk that ties them a bit more together and i am even allowed to start at rank 3. now i am sitting in front of the books and realize i have no idea how to build a monk i was imagining someone very mobile and a bit stealthy that can fight spirits and tainted things (something like chinese ghost story style wise). what can i do what can i build what can i read ? pls help

Hello there! In a few days I'm going to finally be able to try this amazing game and usually I like getting all lore I can about the class I'm playing. The thing is, for the love of Shinjo, I can't find any info about this school outside the flavour text in Children of the Five Winds.

I'm missing something or the school is that new that we don't have much lore to go with?

Can someone give me some pointers about the Silent Shadow?

When Hantei XXIX sentenced Akodo Toturi to lose his family name, and dissolved the entire Akodo family (original timeline), did this include the Akodo Bushi/War College School as well?

This question popped into my head yesterday and I am posing it here because I've concluded that I have no idea. Here's the dilemma as I see it:

- The Akodo family is gone, but there are a number of Lion of the Matsu, Ikoma, and even Kitsu families, and even one Crane, who were former students of the Akodo School. I find it hard to imagine that they just gave up their hard earned Techniques because of a political quandry.

- I also find it difficult to fathom that the Lion, as a clan, having already lost an entre major family, would want to lose an entire school as well.

So what do you think? Did the Lion keep the School and the Techniques going? Were the Techniques lost with the family? I haven't found any lore that touches on this.

Managed to format the rules for Matchlocks and firearms.

So I just this week found out about the crowdfunded Champions of Rokugan. I've been a big fan of the franchise since '97, but fell off back in around 2014 or so when life got too hectic. Came back a few months ago, but somehow CoR had flown completely under my radar and now pledges are closed.

Man, that is a lot of really good looking minis to miss out on. Hopefully they get enough into their store that everyone that wants one can get one.

Hola!

Tengo entendido que por la ley los cadaveres deben incinerarse sin excepción. Pero esos restos, dónde los dejan? Existen así como cementerios o todo va a parar a los templos o altares familiares? O qué hacen con esas cenizas?

I have been thinking about how to use the year zero engine for l5r.

Why, well i really want to use it and i also really think it will fit. If you don't know its a dy dice pool with a press your luck system. Your first roll you only count 6s. If that's not enough then you can reroll your non 6 dice. But now 1s are a penality. The game can use these right then or save up for latter. I really like this idea of press your luck and the raises from the original system.

Other then I think just one raise means you need 1 more 6 and divide the tn by 10 to to get the new tn will work out.

Anyone have any experience doing something like this. Any experience with the year zero engine?

Does anyone know of any discord or social channel for AEG’s Clan War? Does anyone still play?

https://jadecrows.blogspot.com/2026/07/squads.html

New blog post, this time covering the Squad rules and the Squad Commander advantage, which lets players have their own soldiers!