Posts made by Alzie

I knew Tia and Zeynasi. I was aspalathos (Sp? idfk. something like that). Welcome to the board.

@jennkryst said in [L5R] Giri - Now Hiring:

@alzie Silly suggestion: fast forward to an alt history where the heresy worked, and everything is hunky-dory...

... UNTIL THE FIRE [ring clan] ATTACKS.

I'm open to changes in the theme. We haven't opened yet so that's possible. I thought about that and we could include the hawk clan. I just want to force players to explore the conflict between giri and ninjo.

Edit: I'm gonna get really going on code starting monday because I have a 3 day thanksgiving break from work and all the caffeine I can hold.

@ixokai said in [L5R] Giri - Now Hiring:

@Thenomain I was, apparently failing, trying to be funny and suggesting more information in the recruitment post would be good.

That's fair.
We're using the Legend of the Five Rings Beta system to run a new game. I named the game Giri which is the word for the samurai's moral obligation to their duty which is constantly in conflict with their humanity - called ninjo.

The Great Famine was a time during the period of Rokugan's early history where, following a horrendous harvest, torrential rainfall plagued several of the territories and destroyed even more of the food available. Some lords turned towards tyrannical taxation to make up their difference, others ignored the problem and some attempted to solve the problem in the best way they could only to find that the terrible weather had other effects as well: the destruction of important road ways between clan territories. As i'm sure you can imagine, for some remote areas this brought trade and any hope of outside help to a screeching halt. For other areas, such as the dragon clan territories, this was an even worse effect because mountains don't lend themselves to finding other paths. Then of course, there were the refugees. A lot of them. And a peoples army. All kinds of things. Basically, when you don't have food and your lords don't seem to care, you find food. Sometimes, finding food means you gotta kill some of the people society tells you have been granted a divine right to rule you. This is unsettling to those people who weren't prepared for you to do this.

On the other hand, the Heresy of the Five Rings was a monk who proposed that the reason all this bad shit was happening at all was because there were too many clans. What if you were to, you know, make it so there were less clans and each clan matched up to one of the five rings. Five clans, Five rings. Then all the bad stuff goes away. Well, if you haven't eaten in several weeks and you want someone to blame for it, then a monk comes along and tells you there's someone to blame for it and you have a divine right to blame them? Well they better pack it up, because they're enemy numero uno now. The other clans need to make people forget that they're starving too, so they're either not going to interfere or, in the case of one clan, push that shit right along with fervor.

Was there any specific questions you had or did that cover most of it?

Also, we're using Mu2!

@ganymede I'm using the 5E Beta actually.

Okay, real talk now. I've decided the theme will be a combination of the Great Famine and Five Rings heresy and I have a server, but now I need people. I'm sure the players exist, but I'm only one staffer. So here we go, this is what i'm thinking we need.

• Theme Staffer
  I have a general time spot and environment down, but we still need a specific location and surrounding for players to locate themselves in. Having someone who knows the L5R theme and wants to construct us somewhere to RP would be great.

• Plot Staffer
  Player Run things will hopefully occur, but I want to have an active meta plot too. There should be something in the background the players are basing their RP (And hopefully plots) on.

• General Staffer
  A staffer with some knowledge of L5R that wants to help around. Do Jobs, approve apps, help players, maybe run a scene or two sometimes.

@shelbeast said in L5R 5E:

@alzie said in L5R 5E:

Rokugan with Railroads and Guns

Only if I get to make the Shinsengumi.

We could do that.

I really like the idea of combining The Great Famine with the Five Rings Heresy. Opinions on this @bored and @ShelBeast ?

@bored I mean, there are 2 settings dedicated to being not in rokugan. There was even the Second City Box Set which was dedicated to the colonies. Then Age of Exploration was written into Imperial Histories 2 to go along with Second City. So I'm not sure why it's that far removed from the setting? Also there's rokugan in space so...

That being said, if we had to pick a setting, would people be more interested in:

• Civil War
• Societal Breakdown
• Rokugan with Nonhumans
• Rokugan with Railroads and Guns

@bored I was going for Homebrew with this, but okay, so Ivory is bad. Do you have suggestions for something outside of Rokugan? That was the goal.

Also, @faraday , I've decided to use AresMush for this.

I bet you thought this project was dead.

Potential Theme
I was thinking about setting a game in a budding Rokugani settlement in the Ivory Kingdoms. As a joint diplomatic effort between the Emerald Emperor and the Maharaja to combat the illegal trade that pours over both borders.

I think this is a pretty good place to start because it allows Rokugan and Ivory Kingdom PCs, along with a good plot environment from all sides (political, trade, combat), and has good room for PC led growth.

Opinions?

So, let me run these rule changes by you peeps.

Change the mechanical effects of Razor Edged to the following:

When you succeed at an Attack action check that deals damage to a target using a Razor-Edged item, if the damage dealt is reduced to 0 by the target's resistance, roll a single ring die. If the die roll contains no successes, not including advantages and disadvantages, the weapon gains the damaged quality. Additionally, certain techniques require the use of a Razor-Edged weapon.

Reasoning: Razord Edged was silly because it would essentially break your weapon if you ever encountered this type of enemy since everyone was going to have a razor-edged weapon.

Change the mechanical effects of Destroyed to the following:

Such an item is broken. If the item is armor, it no longer provides protection. If the item is a bladed weapon, it can be used as a Deadliness 0, Damage 1, Range 0 stabbing weapon. If the item is a club, it is splintered. Items can be used for improvised purposes at the GM's discretion and may be repaired by NPCs or PCs.

Reasoning: This isn't so much an HR as it is clarifying the GM Discretion part of Destroyed.

Change the mechanical effects of Wargear to the following:

Whenever a character in Wargear attempts any skill check that is not in the martial or scholar group, they do so at a penalty of TN +1. Wargear is not suited to Social or Deft pursuits.

Reasoning: Why does Wargear add strife? People see Wargear all the time, it's not unusual, it's just socially unacceptable to wear it outside of a battlefield.

@Templari Some of us don't have an issue with current events? I won't be hauled into your justice because you feel like your sense of it is right and you don't get to imply that because I won't rally to your flag I'm somehow wrong or complacent with bad behavior.

@sunny said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I don't appreciate the all caps.

Can we please tone it down some?

Yep. I'm out, at least of this topic, probably the board. Good luck.

So you need rules to tell you how to act like well adjusted human beings? We have a word for that.

@Ganymede they want some laws.

I don't really understand why anyone is surprised that the thread was moved. It literally devolved into enarai insulting everyone's intelligence, 3 pages of people posting reaction gifs and then Tempest giving the following as a response to a request to stop filling the thread with fuck you gifs:

@tempest said in Fixing United Heroes- Too bad we cannot talk about it on the game:

We have special permissions.

Because fuck UH in particular.

Now you're surprised and abhorred?

@Finn +bbread 15/3
Also, this is the first line for those curious.

Let's have a look at the IC reality of magical cops hovering around and watching everyone for illegal spells, eh?

@finn I did a quick search on my phone but couldn't find it. Will get back to you when I can get home and find it.

I too am playing a new fangled sanctified

Since it's the topic of wikidot, just thought I would add:

http://snippets.wikidot.com/

@bored You can actually reduce the dice system down to 7 results once you get to laying it out. Also, you said you had your old code and the thing you did in sheet with the rings was really cool. Did you still have that?

Re: 7 results.

Ring: 0, 1, 4, 7, 2, 6
Skill: 0, 0, 1, 1, 5, 4, 4, 3, 7, 2, 2, 2

0 - Blank
1 - Sux
2 - Opportunity
3 - Explode
4 - Sux/Strife
5 - Sux/Opportunity
6 - Opportunity/Strife
7 - Explode/Strife

I guess that won't work either. Since you have to apply advantages and disadvantages and they may not even keep the explosions. Whoever decided on this stupid dice system should be shot.

Anyways, I'm guessing we'll do:

• Player types some +roll command
• Player gets initial roll result back
• Player does all this intermediate bullshit
• Player decides what to keep
• Player might need to roll additional ring/skill dice
• Everyone is happy

So we need an initial roll command and one for additional ring/skill.

What should the initial roll command look like though...The additional is easy:

+roll/<type>

where type is ring/skill.

But what about the initial one? Terrible things floating in my head so far.

+roll <#>s<#>r/<TN>
+roll <#>s<#>r vs <TN>
+roll <#>:<#>/<TN>