Just wondering if ayone out there has made Beginner Box style characters, just for fun. Or, if I were to make my own, how much is invested in creation.

Using Lion Bushi as example, I see 46 xp in skills and rings, an Advantage, an Ability, and a Turmoil. Think we can go by this for creating others?

Sorry for rambling.

A lot of people have said that it is basically the same rules as the beta rules with a few changes. I'm not sure what the differences are, but if you go from the beta rules, you won't be far off.

On 9/8/2018 at 5:15 PM, Novatheorem said:

A lot of people have said that it is basically the same rules as the beta rules with a few changes. I'm not sure what the differences are, but if you go from the beta rules, you won't be far off.

I'd say it's got some major differences - some due to simplification for a BG, and some appear to be answering beta-long complaints.

• Simplified Crits. (similar to how crits were handled in the EotE, AoR, F&D, and Ep7 BG's)
  • No rolls
  • 4 steps
• Duels reduced to one-roll-each.
• Ring descriptions subtly different
  • Void Points start at 1, not half void.
    • No flipping ads/disads because no rules for disads nor passions
• Endurance and Composure formulae changed
• Unmask
  • provides bonus to following roll (TN-1)
  • almost all cause either HR honor loss or GR Glory loss
  • still no forced unmask
• End of Scene Recoveries
  • Strife Reduce to half composure
  • Fatigue reduce to half endurance
  • Water has no benefit
  • first aid as worded appears to be same scene only, thus before reductions at end of scene.
• No wheel of discord
• Slightly reduced XP rate
  • 4 XP per session, not 2 per hour
    • Session defined as 2 or 3 major encounters and a handful of minor encounters
  • 2-4 per major checkpoint, not 3-5.
• opportunity spends
  • 2 narrative and 2 non-narrative per ring
  • 7 any ring (3 of them in adventure text, others on back cover of rulebook)
  • No raise initiative with fire opportunity spends.
• No big grid approaches table
  • replaced by one-liners per skill
• No key scene mechanic
• No Passions, adversities, anxieties
• No afflicted (no surprise, for the beginner box)
• No Base Severity for weapons
• Characters have more skill levels (my players tell me it's two more.)
• Honor, glory and Status
  • No clan specific modifiers to honor gains.
  • Failures implied to cost honor and/or glory by inclusion of "1 Opp: If the check was a failure, the PC demonstrates their determination and skill even in the face of adversity, suffering no embarrassment or shame for failing."
  • No specific honor nor glory awards, but unmasking can cost either or both.
  • All PCs at status 35

As an aside, it also gives us, for the first time, kanji for the family names. (Included are the translations google gave me for them...)

• Hida 避打 (hitting)
• Akodo 亞古努 (A Dedication)
• Dōji 堂字 (shōgun)
• Togashi 竜蛾仕 (Dragon Mortar or Dragon Tortoise)
• Isawa 威沢 (Prestige Swamp)
• Bayushi 抜由氏 (Mr. Lost)
• Shinjo 心助 (Encouragement)

I cannot get google to give me a less enigmatic translation for the bayushi kanji.

It sounds like the only changes to character creation (to answer @bsmith23 's question) then would be:

On 9/11/2018 at 3:33 PM, AK_Aramis said:

• Ring descriptions subtly different
  • Void Points start at 1, not half void.
• Endurance and Composure formulae changed
• Slightly reduced XP rate
  • 4 XP per session, not 2 per hour
    • Session defined as 2 or 3 major encounters and a handful of minor encounters
  • 2-4 per major checkpoint, not 3-5.
• No Passions, adversities, anxieties
• Characters have more skill levels (my players tell me it's two more.)
• Honor, glory and Status
  • All PCs at status 35

Is that correct? I feel like the beta rules would get you most of the way there, then. Just have to change void point totals, drop the passions/adversities section and change the starting status on all characters.

On 9/8/2018 at 5:19 PM, bsmith23 said:

Just wondering if ayone out there has made Beginner Box style characters, just for fun. Or, if I were to make my own, how much is invested in creation.

Using Lion Bushi as example, I see 46 xp in skills and rings, an Advantage, an Ability, and a Turmoil. Think we can go by this for creating others?

Sorry for rambling.

Over at the subreddit /r/Rokugan there is a pinned post with a dropbox link full of resources, one of them is a .pub file that you can open with Microsoft Publisher. The file is the character folio that you can edit around and create your own pre-gen character and include any custom portrait.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rokugan/comments/78co60/link_to_my_dropbox_filled_with_unofficial/

On 9/11/2018 at 9:33 PM, AK_Aramis said:

• Isawa 威沢 (Prestige Swamp)

Geeeeeeeeez

17 hours ago, AtoMaki said:

Geeeeeeeeez

Don't blame me - it's google's translation of the kanji on the cover... I have no idea how to parse out prestige swamp. Is it a fancy swamp? Is it a swamp named prestige? Is it prestige that smells funny and slows one's movement?