Task Format

By shinjox, in Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Beta

First, I want to say that I just got the Beta today, only just learned about it. I have breezed over it, kinda like what I am seeing. It still kinda has earlier edition feel with the new dice, at least to me.

I have been trying to figure out the format for the task checks in the sample adventure as opposed to that given in the rest of the book.

The rest of the book gives you something like: TN 2 Aesthetics (Water) check

Where A Ronin's Path is often something like: TN 2 Aesthetics (Water 1, Fire 3) check

I think I am missing something. What do the numbers after a ring represent? Are they the minimum ring you must have to attempt it or something?

Hey there ! There’s been a thread explaining this in details, here:

Cheers!

13 hours ago, shinjox said:

First, I want to say that I just got the Beta today, only just learned about it. I have breezed over it, kinda like what I am seeing. It still kinda has earlier edition feel with the new dice, at least to me.

I have been trying to figure out the format for the task checks in the sample adventure as opposed to that given in the rest of the book.

The rest of the book gives you something like: TN 2 Aesthetics (Water) check

Where A Ronin's Path is often something like: TN 2 Aesthetics (Water 1, Fire 3) check

I think I am missing something. What do the numbers after a ring represent? Are they the minimum ring you must have to attempt it or something?

TN X Skill_A (R) is "Must use ring R and skill_A, one target number"

TN X Skill_A (Ra Y, Rb Z) is "Use Skill_A and choice of ring, if using Ring Ra, TN Y, Ring TN Z, all other rings, TN X"

It's defined on page 178. It should be defined on 13, but isn't.

AH! Thank you very much!