Ok first off a note about most of the schools in general. One of the effects of removing static bonuses from the bushi schools is that they no provide less general competence and more specialized maneauvers or tricks. This effects some schools more strongly than others, take the Toritaka bushi school for example. In 3e they had attack, damage ( Read more... )

This is mostly because I’m bored and thinking about L5R a lot recently, so I am going to do a review and comparison of the various schools in 4th edition. This post will focus on the Shugenja Schools ( Read more... )

OK, I have now had enough time to give a fairly detailed review of the new L5R 4th Edition. I will be doing this by section, mostly to organize my own thoughts ( Read more... )

So I was talking about role-playing to one of my coworkers today (She is just getting into it in her college) and she asked me how I came up with the characters I played. I long ago came up with a formula that has kept me happy throughout my college career: I take an existing character and then start changing them until they are a new character ( Read more... )

Once More With Feeling is now my favorite episode of any series I have watched.

That is all.

When I was in college I noticed how large a part of my life gaming was, and I always liked to run a game as well as play in one, but I usually prefered to play rather than run a game. Now that I can do niether, I find that I am missing the running of games far more than the playing of such. I keep thinking of plots and storyarcs that I want to ( Read more... )

All hidden behind the cut so I don't ruin it for folks.

( Tons and Tons of Spoilers and Speculations )

This was inspired mostly by grabbing the latest books, as well as finally picking up a few books that have been out there for a while. As well as at least one friend asking about L5R books ( Read more... )

My family just had the loudest most virulent fight I have ever seen at home, about christian theology of all things.

Why the hell didn't I watch this series sooner? My folks just got netflixs and I am now making use of the streaming video portion of it to watch heroes. I can't believe that I never got into this show before, it is basically everything I like in a modern supers series. Man I wish I could run an aberrant game right now.