Killjoy, I'm really confused why are you so vocal and invested about this game which you don't play, don't like the setting, and are opposed to the basic premises of (which is a fantasy samurai society focusing on honor and duty to the community - which, in turns, heavily emphasizes collectivism of culture; I can understand why you are alienated by it, because it's a pretty classical clash of western individualistic society values clash versus eastern collectivist society values and expectations clash) What keeps up your interest in L5R?
What are chances of 4th Edition being lincensed out to some 3rd party, like Green Ronin, simply to keep up some materials coming out? Adventures would be best, but some new books *could* be good, although 4th Edition became progressively worse in mechanical aspects due to incompetence of people writing mechanical tidbits in them; maybe incompetence is too harsh, but most of that stuff lacked understanding of basic 4th edition design and in turn worked rather bad with it.
Like, I don't know who thought that a relatively low level Air Spell should be able to add up to twice your Air Ring in flat bonus to all Awareness and Reflexes roll, and increase your ATN by that number too, for the whole day, was a good idea.
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