So, what we know is:

1) Pre-Release @ Gencon Aug 17-20

2) On Announcement page "a wide release in the fourth quarter of 2017"

3) There will be a World Championship for L5R LCG in early November (Confirmed in video below at time stamp pre-queud)

4) A bit later in the video, he says that Gencon may be the full launch even and not just a pre-release, but it's too early to tell

Now, I'm going to assume Fourth Quarter is calendar year, so Oct/Nov/Dec. I believe they are highly unlikely to do a World Championship just for pre-release customers. I think it might even be a September release personally. I think they are saying 4th quarter as a safety net. I mean October would be pushing it for Worlds as people don't want to make a leap of faith on planning travel etc. without knowing if they will have the cards for sure.

Really hoping for an early October release, and the first Dynasty pack legal for Worlds.

I speculate it will be released NOW!

NOW!

NnnnnnnnnnnnnOW!

How bout now!

Now?

Walking away whistling dont mind me..........NOW!

Hopefully by the time I'm done with this bit, the game will be out and I can just go play it already.

I hope it gets a full release as soon as possible after GenCon, since I think I would get crazy to know all the cards by then and having to wait to get my hands on the boxes myself to show my friends the superiority of the Crane!

It actually released last Wednesday. What, you guys don't have your copies yet?

(Just kidding, just kidding...)

1 minute ago, JJ48 said:

It actually released last Wednesday. What, you guys don't have your copies yet?

(Just kidding, just kidding...)

I got mine! It even has Spider and Mantis clan in it and- oh wait that's just my old cards...

Burn them all. The kami will know their own.

I know no one cares but I think it's so crappy that I can't get my 3 core sets until god-knows-when because I'm a grown man with responsibilities that can't make it to gen-con. I know it's sad, but m wife asked me what I want for my 40th birthday and I said 3 core sets of L5R!!

Gencon all cards spoiled. Full release early October, core set is 'solved' by then by the gen conners. It will be a brutal wait gen con to release.

9 hours ago, Robin Graves said:

I got mine! It even has Spider and Mantis clan in it and- oh wait that's just my old cards...

The *real* pre-pre-release core set actually has 8 clans. They combined two of them into the Spider-Man-tis Clan. Their primary strategy involves putting 'webbing' tokens on enemy characters to keep them bowed.

Trouble is, they're going to reboot Spider-Man-tis every couple of years. When asked why, they just said "it seems like all the cool kids are doing it".

2 hours ago, Togashi Gao Shan said:

The *real* pre-pre-release core set actually has 8 clans. They combined two of them into the Spider-Man-tis Clan. Their primary strategy involves putting 'webbing' tokens on enemy characters to keep them bowed.

Trouble is, they're going to reboot Spider-Man-tis every couple of years. When asked why, they just said "it seems like all the cool kids are doing it".

I tried to imagine what a spider/mantis crossbreed would look like and now I'll have nightmares...

2 hours ago, Robin Graves said:

I tried to imagine what a spider/mantis crossbreed would look like and now I'll have nightmares...

It's not as bad as you think!

In an alternate timeline, the L5R IP is dead with no one willing to revive it anyway.

I am hoping for this to be the timeline where it is released in october.

I kinda think FFG is sandbagging this one. They are going to be ready for a full release at Gen Con and pretty much win the hearts and wallets of their customers in one big swoop as well as earning some future consideration from all of us in case FFG needs a little latitude with future releases.

Customer service 101 set the expectation and then exceed it.

2 hours ago, Wintersong said:

In an alternate timeline, the L5R IP is dead with no one willing to revive it anyway.

In an alternate timeline Onyx edition part 2 is going to the end and AEG is facing big changes while transforming game into ECG format.

Yep. This is the alternate timeline where l5r still exsists, but we get the current American administration to balance it out.

3 minutes ago, Isawa Syd said:

Yep. This is the alternate timeline where l5r still exsists, but we get the current American administration to balance it out.

I don't disagree, but I'm not sure injecting contemporary politics into a gaming forum is the greatest idea.

I have terrible luck. So I will hope for it to be released in October but I expect it to be released in December.

This is the first time I actually wanted to go to Gencon.

2 hours ago, Yoritomo Reiu said:

I don't disagree, but I'm not sure injecting contemporary politics into a gaming forum is the greatest idea.

Sorry. I couldn't resist. No more from me unless it's phoenix related. I will keep it light.

25 minutes ago, Isawa Syd said:

Sorry. I couldn't resist. No more from me unless it's phoenix related. I will keep it light.

"Make the Mantis Great Clan again!"?

On ‎29‎/‎04‎/‎2017 at 10:46 PM, Wintersong said:

"Make the Mantis Great Clan again!"?

Would we get cards like "Black Scroll: Fake news"?

And Rokugan already has a wall so...

Hoping for early to mid September. Any longer is just cruel. More likely early October though.

On 4/28/2017 at 11:25 PM, The Laughing Monk said:

I know no one cares but I think it's so crappy that I can't get my 3 core sets until god-knows-when because I'm a grown man with responsibilities that can't make it to gen-con. I know it's sad, but m wife asked me what I want for my 40th birthday and I said 3 core sets of L5R!!

I am a grown man in my 30's, working a military contract job for 10years, and I am managing to make it to gencon. Going does mean I have to sacrifice other things I want, and make up time with the wife and kids.

I would guess 6-8 weeks after Gencon.

I have a feeling that you're going to want to be there to get yours right away, it's going to be the hottest release FFG has had with an LCG and by a good margin.

Don't be that guy complaining on the forums because you could only get one core.

Based off other lcgs released, does ffg put limits on copies you can purchase at gen-con? Do you expect there to be a one or two core limit?