Hi everyone
I'm a long time player of L5R 1st and 2nd edition (now approaching to 4rth edition); now they announced a FFG version of the game (can we name it the 5th edition? dunno... but 5 is a good number for Rokugan
) and i'm both excited and fearful
Excited because it's a game i loved in the past (even if really not simple to play as intended and really easy to screw up things with wrong - or just unexperienced - players or masters). Fearful because every iteration of the setting completely screwed up what good was done before (in my opinion).
Luckily in the 4th edition they let you play in different timelines, so you can play in time where Rokugan was a very good and solid fantasy world with japanes-like theme, before coming a nightmarish piece of s***...
No offense taken to whoever write it. I dunno if authors/writers did their best to put a little coherency in something forced by a non coherent system (the CCG tournament) or if it's their fault... but they came up from a really good, solid and intriguing setting (the 1 ed), to a "good idea, bad development" world (scorpion clan coup) to a "total pile of s***" (emperor fu leng, hitomi killing the moon, living shadows became akodo, alliance with the shadowlands and spider clan...) and everything going after is reaaaaaaaaaly worse...
So, i know will not be in the 1rst edition timeline (they already stated "the chrysanthemum throne" in the news...
) but hopefully they could retcon whatever was written from scorpion clan coup onward in something is not painful for your intelligence to read... x_x
Ok ok, maybe is just me and everyone else loved the clan war, spirit war, and whatever happened after 1123... but well... that's my hope
so...
a) what did you think will be the setting?
b) what did you whant for the setting?
c) there is official news about the timeline?