L5R interest check

Silent Wayfarer

Silent Wayfarer

This is my spirit animal
So I think I might be tempted to run one of two 40K-inspired L5R game concepts:


Full Metal Kimono


On the Kaiu Wall, the wind doesn't just blow, it sucks.


The players are a group of ponies who have each committed some faux pas, for which they have been sent to the Kaiu Wall for a season. The focus is on combat and survival, against the horrors of the Shadowlands, though the Wall is still a place of people, and Kyuden Hida is still a court.


Do try not to die.


Kanazuchi 1100


In the grim darkness of the Emerald Empire, there is only war.


The players will be a team of junior Emerald Magistrates in service to the Emperor, charged to go into the dark places where the light of Lady Sun does not shine and root out the rot and corruption festering within. Twenty million drown in blood if they are weak.


Do not be weak.
 
I have interest in whichever.


That said...?


Kanuzuchi 1100 is nice.. as is Full Metal Kimono. I'm happy either way.
 
[QUOTE="Shining Lotus Sage]...ponies?

[/QUOTE]
The Kaiu Wall is really big, really long, and easily covers the entire breadth of the Emerald Empire, a seal against the festering evil of the Shadowlands. As you can imagine, they use horses (specifically, the Rokugani pony) to traverse the long distances in order to pass messages and move reinforcements. Sometimes these ponies get hurt. Eventually, all these ponies get old.


Now, the Crab are practical in all things. So when they're faced with a pony that can't run, can't pull, can't earn its keep... well, there's only one real use for them. They are led out into the Shadowlands, within sight of the Wall, and tied to a stake under the bows of a hundred Crab archers. But they don't shoot it.


They shoot the oni that comes to eat it.


Now, back at the entrance to Kyuden Hida; you have a group of young samurai from the other Clans, who have been assigned to actual duty on the Wall for a season. Not guests, come to see the austere beauty of the Crab Clan ancestral palace, but actual, honest-to-Amaterasu servicemen on the Wall.


Here's the problem. These other-clanners know precisely dick about what happens on the Wall. They don't know about what it means to be a screamer, to stab your bedroll before sleeping on it lest it be a transformed oni, to live in a trap without end, to watch hideously mutated men drink their Jade Petal Tea every morning so they can rage wildly into the ranks of the Shadowlands before they are taken by death or the Taint. They know nothing. They aren't used to running and moving in heavy armor, pulling their comrades (200+ lbs. or more, and they might be injured too) back to safety before the little goblins come out and... deal with the wounded. They are weak, in a place where the weakness of one means the death of all. And to make it worse, any Crab sergeant knows that if he coddles these other-clanners, he might end up throwing away away an experienced veteran to keep some FNG alive.


So he assigns these other-clanners to recon-by-fire, dangerous retrieval missions, anything where he doesn't want to waste his precious vets. If they survive, they'll have learned. They might become actual soldiers at some point.


If they die... well, that's what ponies are for, no?
 
Sure. If you're worried I'll single you out for doom due to being a pony, that won't happen. I treat everyone the same - just like shit.


:D
 
Ooh, more l5r. I am interested, less in the wall than the going into corruption.


Edit: on second thought, playing a Crane on te wall sounds awesome. I'm good wit either, would play a Kakita on the wall, or a Kitsuki looking into the evils that men do.
 
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Not sarcastic. It took me a few hours of distraction to remember what that acronym stands for. It sounds like fun, but I've never run across it, really.
 
Colour me interested. Either concept looks fun, although I would lean more towards Full Metal Kimono than Kanuzuchi 1100. I won't necessarily be able to post more than once daily, though, so that might rule me out.
 
Very Interested in either- but as noted, I would prefer the Crazy, going in to the Depths of Corruption. Let's be some MoyhafuckinInquisitors for the ASIAN God Emperor!
 
Hmm. I think I will pass on running this until I get a good body of material up. I just wanted to check interest. Sorry for getting your hopes up :(
 
I'm reopening this thread for anyone who's interested. So far I count:


Shining Lotus Sage


SephirothSage (what's up with these names...)


Esbilon


HairyDM


Nice compact group, I can deal with that. Please restate your preferred game idea.


Also I have been playing Dark Souls 2, so you can pretty much tell what you're going up against in either of the ideas.
 
I'm good with either, my current ideas are a Crane duelist for the Wall game, or a Kitsuki investigator for the Magistrates game.
 
I know basically nothing about the system, though, and less about the setting unless it has something to do with Musashi. You probably shouldn't count me in.
 
I was really interested in trying this out, but there are a few things I don't understand. What are 'ponies'? And what does a 40k-inspired mean. Are you just going to kill us and have us roll new characters after each massacre?


I would like to try out this game, but know nothing about the world or system. My characters won't be optimal, and may even be flawed. Is this game going to require knowledge of the system of a more advanced nature?
 
I haven't played the game either, but read through the core book with great interest. Optimization seems pretty basic, you don't have a whole lot of choices (though those choices have a goodly number of options), and the options are pretty well balanced.


It seems this would be a learning game in any case, unless some more experienced players show interest.


@hellrazoromega @Mei @Thorn Darkblade
 
I would like to play any L5R game I can. Is my previous concept acceptable or should I make a new one? Too drunk on paddy's to read everythig at the moment


Edit: oh, this is the 40k inspired one. If a solid traditional L5R opens lemme know, otherwise I'd love to play dark heresy for the first time. Will possibly read and decide for sure if I want in on this one when more sober
 
I think that I would prefer the Wall game, but I can roll with either, easily enough. Thinking of playing a cocky Mantis Bushi, but he's half-baked enough right now to fit in anywhere.
 
Esbilon said:
I haven't played the game either, but read through the core book with great interest. Optimization seems pretty basic, you don't have a whole lot of choices (though those choices have a goodly number of options), and the options are pretty well balanced.
It seems this would be a learning game in any case, unless some more experienced players show interest.


@hellrazoromega @Mei @Thorn Darkblade
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Depends on how many players are alreadry and and whether or not there are openings. I'd can see who the experienced players are--it might be interesting to have a game of L5R for newbies.
 
I guess my preference would be the Kanazuchi 1100 scenario. I think it has more room for different character ideas and approaches to solutions. The first one sounds too much like a meat grinder scenario. That said, you could probably have more characters in the first scenario without things bogging down. Then those who die to the meat grinder could roll up new characters between scenes.
 
I'm moderately experienced, and interested in both game Ideas.


I'd prefer the Investigators, but Have .. INTERESTING, ideas for the Wall Game.


My vote goes Kanzuchi, but I'm in regardless.
 
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