Questions tagged [l5r-2e]

The second edition of The Legend of the Five Rings, a fantasy RPG. The second edition was published by Alderac Entertainment Group in 2000.

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Was L5R 2nd Edition based on or compatible with D&D 3.0?

The second edition of Legend of the Five Rings is a game published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast — the first time an L5R edition was published by WotC and the same year that they published Dungeons &...
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What's the Spirit Point cost of Shapeshift: Spirit?

Fortunes and Winds (2002) for Legend of the Five Rings, Second Edition and Dungeons and Dragons, Third Edition presents the new race Shapeshifter, each subrace of which gains a handful of Spirit ...
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What's more powerful than a Fortune?

In AEG's Secrets of the Shadowlands (2004) for Legend of the Five Rings, Second Edition (that's also officially licensed by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons and Dragons, Third Edition), the feat ...
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How does Armor of Earth work?

The spell Armor of earth pg. 216 in L5R 2ed Player's guide states: For the duration of the spell all damage dice rolled against a shugenja which are less than or equal to their caster's school rank ...
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Does hitting a shugenja while casting disrupt the spell?

In L5R 2nd ed, if a shugenja has successfully cast a spell with a casting time greater than one turn, does she have to roll some kind of "concentration check" if she is hit during a casting turn?
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Which way is North in the L5R 2nd edition map?

I've been poring over the various regions and cities in L5R and, though this sounds silly, I'm not sure which way is north anymore. The biggest part of my confusion comes from the GM Guide when ...
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Weapon skills with unspecified traits in L5R, 2e?

In Legend of the Five Rings (2nd edition), for bojitsu (and I believe someone was looking for naginata as well) we looked for the specific trait that would tell us what dice to keep, however in none ...
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Calculating wounds & TN

In Legend of the Five Rings (2nd edition) this subject is spoken of twice but it's not clear: It says that the wounds are your earth ring *2 and next to the level there's a +X i.e: stamina 3, ...
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Is there a step-by-step combat flowchart for L5R, 2e?

OK, so I played Legend of the Five Rings (2nd edition) years ago and enjoyed it. When asked what he wanted for a present he replied: "an rpg campaign! But it should be different, not one of the one's ...
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