Did anyone else look at this and hear that chime-like noise that signals the reader to turn the page? Maybe it's just me. I have listened to my fair share of read-along books with my daughters.

3 hours ago, Khudzlin said:

@Culoman Surely you mean "the highest bidder just paid Honor to the lowest bidder".

Absolutely. Edited, thank you

On 2017-6-26 at 4:32 PM, Tonbo Karasu said:

Where can one see these most recent images? I do remember predicting a Seppun Guardsman Imperial Bushi at one point, and would like to check.

Voluntarily removed to comply with spoilers policy. Sorry guys!

22 minutes ago, Tonbo Karasu said:

Where can one see these most recent images? I do remember predicting a Seppun Guardsman Imperial Bushi at one point, and would like to check.

http://l5ajce.forumactif.fr/t474-materiel-promotionnel#bottom

The one with the Seppun Guardsnman isn't great.

Here's a bigger version:

Hmm, my main takeaway from that is that I must get a table mat like that.

Is that a token on the left hand side, right next to the province underneath the Lion stronghold? What is that, a 10 honor token? Looks cool, whatever it is.

15 minutes ago, Casanunda said:

Is that a token on the left hand side, right next to the province underneath the Lion stronghold? What is that, a 10 honor token? Looks cool, whatever it is.

Could it be the imperial favour ?

15 minutes ago, Casanunda said:

Is that a token on the left hand side, right next to the province underneath the Lion stronghold? What is that, a 10 honor token? Looks cool, whatever it is.

I think that's the first player token. The kanji on it are different from the ones on the honor tokens.

Just now, MrMenthe said:

Could it be the imperial favour ?

Imperial Favor is the card on the far right under the Honor dial.

**** you're right sir!

3 minutes ago, Danwarr said:

I think that's the first player token

Ah, good call, that has to be it.

5 hours ago, Tonbo Karasu said:

Well, that torpedoes the "Roles for multiplayer" theory.

Yep, way off on that one, I was fairly convinced myself. Stoked about the possibilities of these role cards, but now I want to see them!

1 hour ago, Yogo Gohei said:

I quite like the new dueling rules. But I am beginning to suspect that I am in the minority.

I also like the new dueling rules.

9 minutes ago, Casanunda said:

Ah, good call, that has to be it.

It could be. The kanji appears to say 伝説, which means "legend". I'm not really sure what it could mean in the context of the game. Both being the first player or it representing an amount of honor more than 1 could be the case, or it could be something different.

However, it could say something else. The second kanji is pretty blurry and I searched for alternate words that it could be, but I didn't come up with anything, even anything uncommon, so that's my best guess.

Serious question:

Why show page 18 of the rulebook and not the previous 17 pages? Some of us really want to know the rules!

Although getting the one page out of 18 is better than 0 pages out of 18.

8 minutes ago, kiramode said:

Serious question:

Why show page 18 of the rulebook and not the previous 17 pages? Some of us really want to know the rules!

Although getting the one page out of 18 is better than 0 pages out of 18.

Welp that was the one I could get my hand on (saw it on the french forum). Apparently they were really strict on what could be captured or not. ^^'

12 minutes ago, kiramode said:

Serious question:

Why show page 18 of the rulebook and not the previous 17 pages? Some of us really want to know the rules!

Although getting the one page out of 18 is better than 0 pages out of 18.

This is basically just a random picture someone took from FFG's L5R booth at game festival in Paris. I agree, it would've been nice to see more of the rule book, but this isn't an official FFG spoiler.

I think the most interesting thing about this page is the minimum deck size is only 30 when using 1 box to construct a deck. This is pretty interesting for the GenCon tournaments.

3 hours ago, Yogo Gohei said:

I quite like the new dueling rules. But I am beginning to suspect that I am in the minority.

I also like the new dueling rules, as well as the new imperial favor. The people I have seen speak out against these things, for the most part, have a Crane Avatar image...just a little something I noticed.

Both mechanics went from non-interactive in the old game to be things that are either interactive (Dueling) or have been made less consequential (Imperial favor)

it kinda always bugged me that in the old stores all of the clans ignored the word of the emperor at some time or another, but the imperial favor mechanically was not so optional.....

3 hours ago, Yogo Gohei said:

Some fun keywords in there.

Just now, RandomJC said:

Some fun keywords in there.

Also another preview. Imperial storehouse. Neutral holding. +1 defense. I think it says Action: Sacrifice this holding - Draw 1 card

2 minutes ago, JRosen9 said:

Also another preview. Imperial storehouse. Neutral holding. +1 defense. I think it says Action: Sacrifice this holding - Draw 1 card

Hm...could see that in Crane deck.

7 minutes ago, JRosen9 said:

Also another preview. Imperial storehouse. Neutral holding. +1 defense. I think it says Action: Sacrifice this holding - Draw 1 card

I'd take this card over a lot of Crane and Lion cards. Seems good.

I love that Covert can cause honor loss. If you leave one guy up for defence, you will be not be able to declare defenders at all.