Questions tagged [rokugan]
For questions about Rokugan, a campaign setting that serves as the central location of the Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) game franchise (including the RPG), as well as the "Oriental Adventures" D&D 3e supplement. The setting (especially the Rokugani Empire) is loosely based on stereotypes of feudal Japan, incorporating magic and mythical creatures as well as a mishmash of elements from other Asian cultures. No name has been given for the world as a whole.
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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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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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Writing around an un-defined character
I am planning to attend a LARP set in Rokugan - when (and if) that happens. It's a rather story- and character-play-heavy setup with little to no combat planned.
Now, I have already a character with ...
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How does the Rokugan timeline diverge between the 4th and 5th editions of L5R?
L5R 4th edition was very big on offering the whole empire timeline as a playing field. However, while I am getting myself a treat of the 5th edition core book commented on, it became apparent quite ...
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What creature wears the skin of its victims?
My GM had us encounter a monster some months ago. We know that it was for sure shadowland tainted because the kami of the river it swam in felt grossed out by the thing's passing and wanted us to ...
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Rokugan's Light Cavalry
Sword and Fan does offer a lot of military background for Rokugan. Including the following excerpt:
Light cavalry is a staple of any Rokugani army, even
if it otherwise has little in the way of ...
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Where do I find the length of the seasons in Rokugan?
Rokugan has a rather large canon lore, and I am a little dumbstruck when trying to sift through all of them for the information I seek about the climate of Rokugan.
In particular, I try to find out ...
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Do Rokugan's Dragons have three or four toes?
I couldn't find it in what my collection gives me (or I am blind), but: is there a mention in the sources - or an official depiction - that details if Rokugani Dragons have three or four toes on their ...
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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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What ways can I use the Battle Skill in a Skirmish?
I play a Kaiu Engineer (Battle being a School Skill for me) and I enjoy playing the strategist part a lot. So far, my GM has allowed me to use the Battle Skill for a couple other uses apart from as a ...
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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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Does a nezumi inkyo gain the feat Void Use?
The Rokugan campaign setting for Dungeons and Dragons, Third Edition says that "[n]on-humans and characters not native to Rokugan may not select the" feat Void Use (55), yet the inkyo (41-5) gains at ...
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What does it mean that clans have differing numbers of unique feats?
In Oriental Adventures for Dungeons and Dragons, Third Edition and that text's update to Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, the Dragon #318 article “Oriental Adventures Update: Eastern Flavor” (32-48), Rokugan'...
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Can maho or Oni powers harm creatures of the Lying Darkness?
The Way of Shadow says that creatures (or perhaps “extensions” might be a more fitting term) of the Lying Darkness can be harmed by weapons of crystal.
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Where is the petrified Oni located?
I once read about a site in my (now gone) 1st edition of the Legend of the Five Rings rulebook. The site is a large rock belived to be a petrified Oni, with an axe lodged into it. I remember that ...
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What are the key in-setting differences between D&D Oriental Adventures and L5R?
The Legend of the Five Rings product line has a moderately interesting history (OOC and IC).
What I have been able to piece together of the setting's publishing history:
AD&D has a setting module ...
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What is the scale of the map of Rokugan?
Is anyone aware of the scale of the map for L5R? They talk about the sorts of tribulations of travel, but not what sorts of travel times are to be expected for any range and inquiring minds (my table) ...
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