Courts of the Crane Clan

Crane have always fought for good No, we really haven't. We're not a Force For Good, there isn't a Force For Good. There are eight clans that vie to advance their own self-interest and their own view of what is best for Rokugan, which as often as not is something they're wrong about. (And the Spide...

Re the honor thing: perhaps there is a post somewhere in this thread from an AEG type that I missed ; it's a long thread. If so, fair enough. If not, then that's your interpretation, and while it may be right, I consider gambling on the possibility that we MIGHT be allowed later to decide to go with...

What I'm going to say, I say as a founding member of the Jade Hand, and someone who's been pro-Crane fighting the Shadowlands for a long time. Option #1 is the death knell of the Crane. Too many people here seem to bank on the idea of going military for the crisis, and then going back to honor and c...

"Those around in those years"?. I've been around as long as you have, and I remember a great many of us who felt that being the honor types was pretty important.

I even distinctly remember fanbase outrange when AEG had the nerves to ...give us a -HR personality for the first time.

Hi there Yoshi :) Yeah, I agree...design's approach to the Crane doesn't fill me with confidence. Though I'm not really into all-out dueling decks (to me dueling should be a side trick we use in other decks to support our honor machine, not the whole points of an entire decktype, but I have no objec...

Blood on your hand and comitting treason are two separate things.

Personally, I can tie the scouts with Uji just fine. Yes, the current batch is lacking, (but that's a general issue with every aspects of most clans - the story has not managed to get many strong characters going, period), but we've had a number of great scouts and other daidoji who were not harrier...

When you take a character, take a handful of his most extreme traits, turn them out to eleven, and ignore the rest, that's not an extension or an extrapolation, it's a parody. Yes, they were an AEG creation. So what? A lot of horrible things in the setting were created by AEG. Some were parodies of ...

Okay, can we please stop the whole "Uji's harrier legacy" thing? Uji being a harrier was a retcon, plain and simple. The harriers did not exist until long after he was introduced, and I'm not even sure he was still alive when they were first mentioned (they seem to have first appeared in t...

And the core design for the clan has to match the core identity, otherwise they completely lose their point in the CCG. Crane, at the heart, are in fact the courtly clan. Dueling is part of that, but as a side-theme rather than the central identity of the clan (seriously, how many super-duper dedica...