4 minutes ago, Danwarr said:

Do you just not like the water color events?

The card is a clear reference to the Scorpion and the Frog fable.

It's just a bit strange to me mixing low detail art cards with high detail art cards. Not to my personal taste as I like everything uniform. I also don't play things like full art promo cards because they have a different card layout than the standard cards. It's not a major thing though and I do like the reference and the flavor text. This also clearly confirms that there will be a Frog clan.

There is the City of the Rich Frog which is run by the Kearu Family. Hopefully this time around we can keep the Lion from annexing them.

They seem to have a watercolour motif with all the "Philosophy" cards. Compare it to "Way of the ..." cards. They also have the Philosophy trait.

But yeah, that card specifically refers to http://l5r.wikia.com/wiki/Tale_of_the_Scorpion_and_the_Frog in-universe.

I think the Philosophy cards are the best looking of the bunch. I'd almost prefer the entire game look like that.

But you know the best thing about the article? they confirmed more previews next week! =3

All jokes aside I do like as someone mentioned above that the philosophy cards are in a different style than the regular cards. At first I didn't notice this! haha

18 minutes ago, Smobey said:

They seem to have a watercolour motif with all the "Philosophy" cards. Compare it to "Way of the ..." cards. They also have the Philosophy trait.

But yeah, that card specifically refers to http://l5r.wikia.com/wiki/Tale_of_the_Scorpion_and_the_Frog in-universe.

Strangely, that makes a massive difference to what I think. I just like everything in it's box and if a certain type of card are a certain type of art, all the time, then that works with my brain. It also fits the theme of "Philosophy".

20 hours ago, Builder2 said:

However, reincarnation is a very real part of Rokugani life. Not so in Westeros.

Without ruining the story for anyone, I can definitely say that this is not a true statement...

7 minutes ago, slowreflex said:

Strangely, that makes a massive difference to what I think. I just like everything in it's box and if a certain type of card are a certain type of art, all the time, then that works with my brain. It also fits the theme of "Philosophy".

Without ruining the story for anyone, I can definitely say that this is not a true statement...

No, hes right.

There are some resurrections of ASoIaF, some in very nasty ways. But no reincarnation.

1 minute ago, Jedi samurai said:

There are some resurrections of ASoIaF, some in very nasty ways. But no reincarnation.

There might be one reincarnation in ASoIaF, but in Rokugan it's actually how the universe works.

Just now, Jedi samurai said:

No, hes right.

There are some resurrections of ASoIaF, some in very nasty ways. But no reincarnation.

While true, reincarnation is an accepted part of life (death?) in Rokugan, where it is the very much the exception in ASoIaF.

You mess up in Rokugan, you ask to commit seppuku and hope you do better in your next life, maybe spend some time in one of the spirit realms to make up for your misdeeds. It is part of the Celestial Order

You mess up in Westros, you hope it doesn't kill or maim you, and if you die, you are probably not coming back, unless someone realllly likes you/needs you/ is just that spiteful.

3 minutes ago, Kakita Shiro said:

There might be one reincarnation in ASoIaF, but in Rokugan it's actually how the universe works.

who?

Just now, Jedi samurai said:

who?

Azor Ahai. And even that's a maybe.

39 minutes ago, slowreflex said:

It's just a bit strange to me mixing low detail art cards with high detail art cards. Not to my personal taste as I like everything uniform. I also don't play things like full art promo cards because they have a different card layout than the standard cards. It's not a major thing though and I do like the reference and the flavor text. This also clearly confirms that there will be a Frog clan.

I kind of got the impression that the more Rokugani-style paintings represent things that might actually be depicted in Rokugani paintings hung in their castles. The philosophies of each clan and possibly historic/legendary moments would fit this.

1 minute ago, Kakita Shiro said:

Azor Ahai. And even that's a maybe.

Id put that under the Not really catagory but......

It don't think it matters whether you want to class it as resurrection or reincarnation in this context (sorry, I should have provided more context). It was referring to a unique character in the discard or dead pile being able to be played again or not by a duplicate card, lore wise. In AGoT, you can't, which doesn't make sense lore wise as dead people don't always stay dead. So, you can't say that AGoT doesn't have it, because it's not possible lore wise, but L5R can have it, because it is possible lore wise.

It don't think it matters whether you want to class it as resurrection or reincarnation in this context (sorry, I should have provided more context). It was referring to a unique character in the discard or dead pile being able to be played again or not by a duplicate card, lore wise. In AGoT, you can't, which doesn't make sense lore wise as dead people don't always stay dead. So, you can't say that AGoT doesn't have it, because it's not possible lore wise, but L5R can have it, because it is possible lore wise.

well it kinda does.

In Song of Ice and Fire, while some people have come back from the dead, its normally at a pretty high cost (I won't get into spoilers). Its not like someone comes back and its like nothing has changed. Its much more common and....."cheap" in L5R.

Also L5R doesn't have a dead pile, its a discard pile (from all the info we have, anyway)

3 minutes ago, Jedi samurai said:

well it kinda does.

In Song of Ice and Fire, while some people have come back from the dead, its normally at a pretty high cost (I won't get into spoilers). Its not like someone comes back and its like nothing has changed. Its much more common and....."cheap" in L5R.

Also L5R doesn't have a dead pile, its a discard pile (from all the info we have, anyway)

Again, the argument was that it wasn't possible, not that it was possible with a high cost... Anyway, we're arguing over something that doesn't really matter. We need another article already.

7 minutes ago, slowreflex said:

Again, the argument was that it wasn't possible, not that it was possible with a high cost... Anyway, we're arguing over something that doesn't really matter. We need another article already.

It is actually a valid question in general, since in CCG L5R, there was a distinction between dead and discarded. However, unique was a deck building effect, not an in play effect (There was a separate one for that). Effects could trigger off dead or discarded personality, but would no work with the other. And you were also asking about a core religious belief/effect (It is very real in Rokugan). Thus why we feel the need to make a distinction.

Had a thought... any chance we will get any black scrolls in the core set?

2 minutes ago, Isawa Tasatu said:

Had a thought... any chance we will get any black scrolls in the core set?

I should hope not. It should be an expansion.

Hopefully the first expansion..... as an Isawa I should really not be hoping for Black scrolls should I....

9 minutes ago, Isawa Tasatu said:

Hopefully the first expansion..... as an Isawa I should really not be hoping for Black scrolls should I....

Oh no ... you should definitely be hoping for black scrolls. In fact I think in this reimagining of l5r there should be 84 black scrolls so each clan gets their own full set. You get a black scroll!!! You get a black scroll!!! You get a black scroll!!! EVERYONE GETS A BLACK SCROLL!!!!

1 minute ago, JRosen9 said:

Oh no ... you should definitely be hoping for black scrolls. In fact I think in this reimagining of l5r there should be 84 black scrolls so each clan gets their own full set. You get a black scroll!!! You get a black scroll!!! You get a black scroll!!! EVERYONE GETS A BLACK SCROLL!!!!

All it takes is a little bit of blood....

Looks like I'm late to the party.

I think that it is odd they say the clans that put duty first start with lower honor. It makes sense for the Crab and Scorpion clans. But that description doesn't really work for the Lion, whom are all about honor and duty.

I really love how the unique characters are handled. You can have more than one in your deck but only one out at a time. You don't have to worry about an extra one sitting in your providence because you can sack it to make you current one stay longer or sit on it to bring it out when your current one leaves play. I tip my hat to the designers for this decision.

2 minutes ago, TechnoGolem said:

Looks like I'm late to the party.

I think that it is odd they say the clans that put duty first start with lower honor. It makes sense for the Crab and Scorpion clans. But that description doesn't really work for the Lion, whom are all about honor and duty.

I really love how the unique characters are handled. You can have more than one in your deck but only one out at a time. You don't have to worry about an extra one sitting in your providence because you can sack it to make you current one stay longer or sit on it to bring it out when your current one leaves play. I tip my hat to the designers for this decision.

Yeah right /s if your job is looking pretty, then you don't have a job.

1 hour ago, slowreflex said:

It's just a bit strange to me mixing low detail art cards with high detail art cards. Not to my personal taste as I like everything uniform.

There is never uniform in the art style department. Otaku Kamoko in all her basic and experienced versions says hello.

I usually only ask for the art to be solid and not show stuff that does not make sense, like non-sense armors or kimonos, for example.