So from what I have seen so far, it looks like the the back story for L5R pre 1120 IC is staying pretty much the same minus the gender swaps. So I'm good there.

Here the question, will FFG use the original story advancement tournaments or the later modified ones, or will they do something totally different.

examples.

original story : The story team would pick interesting and unusual game during the event, and use the finals to create story out of the results.

modified story tournaments: AEG would have a list of Story threads for each clan and would allow the highest placing players for that clan to pick one for his/her clan.

I personal preferred the modified story tournaments as the writers had more control and you did not have some of the weird results that the team was forced to write around.

I don't think FFG has released any hard details yet, but they have heavily implied that the main plot will not be influenced to any great extent by story tournament prizes. It sounds like FFG has a story in mind and that they are going to go through with it how they see fit.

So no more weird tournament results that they will be forced to write into the plot, but as a result perhaps a lesser degree of player influence in the story? That's what it sounds like to me at the moment, but we'll have to wait and see what they actually do.

Sounds good to me, maybe our clan will not get sc##wed on a regular basis this time around lol

20 minutes ago, tenchi2a said:

Sounds good to me, maybe our clan will not get sc##wed on a regular basis this time around lol

Don't get your hopes up; some things are tradition.