Courts of the Crane Clan

Yep. Holdings are basically Shinsei's Shrines.

Weak, the political open doesn't replace force with another battle stat, when will design stop making coasters for the Crane?!?!?!

I don't think the AMA is to blame here. If it hadn't happened that way, it would have been silliness on the forum, or something else. The clumsy "No bribe necessary" is WAY, way, way, way, way less blame-worthy than some of the stuff I saw from AEG writers (DT:R, not L5R, mind, but still.....

And it depeonds how you act in the duel. Resorting to dirty tricks or poisoned weapons, or naming a dueling style that is not traditional but give you a gross advantage, or trying to maim or kill your opponent in a duel to the first blood...that,s not honorable. We can assume that's what the "5...

I'm not sure 3 turns game in the new system and the old system are really comparable, given the economy build phase of the original appears to be all but gone. It may well be three-six turns under the new game is loosely equivalent to five-eight under the old. Also, yes, fingers crossed for Katrina....

The problem wasn't that they were bad gamemasters ; the problem is that they tried to be gamemasters at all. You need exceptional roleplayers to weave a RP campaign into a story worth telling (as opposed to a story that provides an entertaining background for your RP crew to have fun), and the vast ...

In general, choices, to the extent they are there, should be more "fill in the blanks" than "take the story in a wildly different direction". That was a HUGE part of the problem with later L5R (and in my opinion the blame for that is squarely on AEG/Brand, not on the story team) ...

Worth noting: "Important Note: Though only one core set is needed to both build decks and play games of Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game, competitive players may wish to purchase additional copies of the core set to gain more copies of individual cards. Some cards will require two core ...

Just Noble Sacrifice is great. It's the same theme/mentality, and one that AEG pushed HARD into the Crab's court.

I'm throwing a party that there's a Crane card titled "Noble Sacrifice", after all of AEG's repeated effort to push the entire stable of TDWWM-style/theme cards into the Crab's playground.