5 minutes ago, Shiba Gunichi said:

I honestly hope they severely limit the playerbase's ability to "Choose character X" to live or die, or get a prize, or whatever. Make it be "if the Flying Purple Hippo Clan wins, they'll be the ones to discover the True Threat to the Empire" or whatever.

Part of the problem with the story from Emperor through Ivory was a lack of focus on any given individual character for many clans- we had a banner to root for, but no actual heroes.

While characters should never be protected from the writers or the plot, they should definitely be shielded from "wingnut with an axe to grind or who thinks it's funny derails things"

Just a thought, but what if instead of the winner getting to make drastic changes, everyone who participates in a tournament gets a vote towards a storyline option? People who score better would get more votes than someone who just showed up, but they couldn't unilaterally decide on something the rest of the players hated. It could even promote more participation in tournaments if players knew that they could impact the game even if they didn't have the most competitive deck.

9 minutes ago, JJ48 said:

Just a thought, but what if instead of the winner getting to make drastic changes, everyone who participates in a tournament gets a vote towards a storyline option? People who score better would get more votes than someone who just showed up, but they couldn't unilaterally decide on something the rest of the players hated. It could even promote more participation in tournaments if players knew that they could impact the game even if they didn't have the most competitive deck.

ANR had two event like that : special tournaments where each player received a cards with multiple choices (runner identities for the first one then corp id for the second). We had to mark our choice and give it back to the TO. He would then send the result to FFG. 2.5 years later we saw both winning id coming into the game.

That was just too late. Nobody felt like playing them, the hype was long gone... If that's all they got for L5R it will gonna suck so hard that I will have to replace the water in my body with pure salt.