The Way of Sensei Wu

Okay, game's over, the cat's away, time to put everything on fire and discuss how some of the things tested in this game are actually not tied to 5ed and could very apply to different systems, and especially L5R 4ed. I'm thinking in particular of: Exhaustive list of relevant advantages/disadvantages...

The option "remain in the monastery" is not available due to Haruhi's side having won the D4 event.

Here's the famous table of Tidbits: 1 - Tokiko 1 There was quite a bit of money in the basket in which Tokiko was found, and since then the monastery has received every year a quite generous anonymous donation. ~ Famously Wealthy 2 - Tokiko 2 Tokiko has never left the monastery and coming out of her...

Ah yes, one thing I forgot and managed to remember: 5XP is likely a good amount for starting characters. Encourage to pick one skill at 1 + one technique, allowing for more diversity when 0XP techniques tend to be repeated a lot between schools, as well as a taste of power by picking an early access...

Did the background plots operate more or less as expected? There was only two active plots really: Hiro and Haruhi Wu's and not Wu's shenanigans The rest was more thought as background elements to make the place feels more alive, and possibly as hooks the players could grab to develop their charact...

https://i.imgur.com/g7Xio0f.jpg "You're welcome. My days would be boring without the people living on me, less I can do is give them a hand when they ask nicely. You can take back your herbs and gift them directly to either the monks or the villagers by the way. Nice attention and all, but they'll ...

Second, what inspired using this particular plot? That is, why a "I should probably get me some students" story? Having the game takes place in a remote monastery was a simple way for me to keep it casual: A neutral ground, where allegiances didn't really matter, where the PCs would be relatively s...

Ask away.

Here's my own, raw (mostly redacted before people posted here), impressions. I'm probably forgetting quite a few things, but long enough as it is. Also, I'm already starting to forget about the parts of the game I didn't take notes of live (this was an urban fantasy game right?): The good Daily full...

https://i.imgur.com/ljAJKtW.jpg A chuckle from beyond the veil between worlds: "Oh, do not worry young one. When vengeance needs an instrument, vengeance does not ask. If one day your arrow strays away from its path and kill someone you didn't mean to send to Emma-Ō, you'll know it was no accident....

Without further ado, the spirit takes off, in perfect silence and without even flapping its paper wings once.

It has soon fully disappeared from sight in the darkness of the night sky.

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/scene?

https://i.imgur.com/ljAJKtW.jpg Art: ??? "I am the last justice. I am incorruptible. The only offerings I take are the sincere pleas of those who have been wronged and forsaken. For having killed with poison a whole family save for a single survivor, a whole family has been condemned to fear poison...

The ground next to the spirit turns into a perfect circle of sand, and the sand ripples to take the form of a skull. A sepulchral voice comes out of the ominous mandala:

"Who seeks the justice other gods and men have refused them?"

The bird folds its wing again, and opens his mouth. A small piece of paper drops from its beak. On it, a name, a place, a time.

Work is never done.

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As the person who acquired the most Tidbits, Soshi Naoko earns the Spy title and an Air shūji (appropriate for her rank and school) of her choice.

The stone fellow remains chill as a rock in spite of Hanakuso's growing menace: https://i.imgur.com/g7Xio0f.jpg "I think the subtlety of the curse is that, while your human attracts venomous animals, they don't harm her and aren't particularly more aggressive toward other people... Unless they share...

The bird lands on the offered hand, and fully unfolds one of its wings. Among the many spirals of interlocked spells is revealed a perfect square of blank paper, the size of a palm, crowned with a single, uncoded, character:

"Write"

https://i.imgur.com/g7Xio0f.jpg Hanakuso has not such reserves, and starts roaming around the little rock humanoid, on the hunt. Who's far more chatty and quick on the draw that what could have been expected of an earth spirit: "Who? Ah, the human-in-chief? A victim of karma. Her blood parents did ...

I've made no mystery my first goal with this game was to crash test a certain number of mechanics. Some worked well, others not so much, all in all it has been quite an instructive run. My own impression on what belongs in each category will follow... As soon as I'm done writing it as it's turning o...

A terrible sound can be heard as the earth opens before the two samurai. A rift opens before the shrine, a dark hole diving straight in the deep of the planet. From it climbs up a tiny figure made of rocks, not even tall enough to reach their knees. https://i.imgur.com/g7Xio0f.jpg Art: https://oracl...