I would put down a couple of bucks that they'll do a surprise announcement this GenCon, with a playable demo. If it didn't happen this year, then I would guess we'll have to wait another year, since they love GenCon for that stuff.
But this year would be great. It would be the year of L5R, capitalizing on the release of the LCG. At the very least they already have an idea of what they'll be doing with the system.
On 4/22/2017 at 4:29 PM, deraforia said:I would put down a couple of bucks that they'll do a surprise announcement this GenCon, with a playable demo. If it didn't happen this year, then I would guess we'll have to wait another year, since they love GenCon for that stuff.
But this year would be great. It would be the year of L5R, capitalizing on the release of the LCG. At the very least they already have an idea of what they'll be doing with the system.
This would be a great idea, as it would allow them to ride the Wave of the LCG like deraforia said. if they wait to long after the release of the LCG they may lose some of the momentum that the LCG release would provide them.
Just noticed I said "demo". I meant beta, one they could even release as a pdf.
4 hours ago, deraforia said:Just noticed I said "demo". I meant beta, one they could even release as a pdf.
Well the good news is that unlike the Edge of the Empire beta which they could not release as a PDF due to licencing issues.
They own the IP for L5R which would give them the right to release it as a PDF.
Bad news since they made money off the Sale of the beta for Star Wars it may prompt them to charge for the L5R beta.
Edited by tenchi2aThey did the same for the 40k rpgs, so I'll imagine there would be a price attached to a beta pdf. Hopefully nothing prohibitive. I would happily pay $10, for example.
I confess a mild desire to see an RPG that hints in some subtle way that the canon reset has an in-universe explanation behind it.
I hope that nobody uses dice as a reason not to try a new system. In terms of starwars, you can easily convert normal dice with stickers or just have a chart corresponding the numbers to symbols. I am sure somebody out there has posted that info somewhere!
It's not so much that I'm opposed to custom dice on principle (though I'm not fond of the idea, I'm open to being convinced) as that it means buying much more expensive physical product.
It's easily more than double what I pay for PDFs, and that's why the custom dice have kept me away from Star Wars and Warhammer (which I'm really interested in, otherwise).
1 hour ago, Builder2 said:I confess a mild desire to see an RPG that hints in some subtle way that the canon reset has an in-universe explanation behind it.
Are you aware of the canon multi-dimension explanation in the existing RPG?
1 hour ago, sasuma said:I hope that nobody uses dice as a reason not to try a new system. In terms of starwars, you can easily convert normal dice with stickers or just have a chart corresponding the numbers to symbols. I am sure somebody out there has posted that info somewhere!
That will probably be the main reason I wouldn't try it. I have dice. I have a lot of dice. But making stickers or having to look at a chart each time I roll is inconvenient and off-putting, especially when there is a perfectly good version of the RPG I've already spent too much money on that doesn't involve new dice. My friends will probably feel even more strongly, especially since to many of them, dice are a very personal thing, and having to pick up new dice just to play this game is not really something anyone wants to deal with.
44 minutes ago, Tonbo Karasu said:Are you aware of the canon multi-dimension explanation in the existing RPG?
Unless you're referring to Yume-do, KYD and such, no I am not. I own the 3rd and 4th Edition rulebooks (though I can locate only the PDF of the latter presently).
Maybe those special dice might also show up in a L5R Risk inspired Boardgame.
13 minutes ago, Builder2 said:Unless you're referring to Yume-do, KYD and such, no I am not. I own the 3rd and 4th Edition rulebooks (though I can locate only the PDF of the latter presently).
Yes, it was Yume-do I was talking about, and the fact that YKD, R2K and other rumoured things are said to exist in the dream.
If there are other realities encased in the dream realm, do those realities contain their own Yume-do as well (so that from their point of view, the "real" world is the dream instead)?
I'd say no - it's not recursive / fractal.
They'd all, at most, contain a small imitation of the realms, enough that it's not obvious to those in the dream that their world isn't fully fleshed out but not actually the full realms.
2 minutes ago, Builder2 said:If there are other realities encased in the dream realm, do those realities contain their own Yume-do as well (so that from their point of view, the "real" world is the dream instead)?
No, I think they may have their own other realms, but share a Yume-do, where they consider the odd dreams of Satsume's son Doji Hoturi to be some weird reality.
6 hours ago, sasuma said:a chart corresponding the numbers to symbols. I am sure somebody out there has posted that info somewhere!
EotE Core Book, it's called "Page 12". The others do similarly.
