Live your life one dice roll at a time
Live your life one dice roll at a time
New Topaz Champion Hida Sugi and her co-contestant Shinjo Takuya got moving from the Kakita Dueling Academy in Tsuma, this time along with slightly older new recruits to the Emerald Magistracy, the Matsus Ono and Tezuka and Doji Koji. The…
So there are obviously still large gaps in my understanding of how the fights work in L5R, because I can’t stop thinking about them as a simple depletion of a finite resource: i.e. hit points. Which isn’t really how the…
This map of Rokugan was put together using all the mentioned settlements from the fiction and sourcebooks by Trevor Cuba and it’s pretty rad. The scale is 10 mile by 10 mile squares, although that doesn’t mean much when youre…
We just got done playing through the Starter Box set for Legend of the Five Rings. I love the idea of Starter Boxes; the Numenera box really helped sell that game for me. The Star Trek starter box helped make…
We did a bit of galaxy-building for The Stars Are Fire in preparation for our Sunday night games finally getting offline. Fuck all this technology, let’s play some sci-fi! We’re using their Revel setting, a near-future… well 300 years in…
When Jen’s phone light fell on the form of a large, muscular, bare-chested man with a bull’s head, you might think she stumbled into a cut scene from Eyes Wide Shut, but you’d be wrong. Like, really wrong. Seriously, why…
I loved Crusader Kings 2. It was, incrementally, an amazing game – an utterly pointless, engrossing, medieval sandbox simulator. You could get it running in 1066 and let it go until 1453 and it would recreate “A” medieval Europe. And…
Things have taken a turn of the Supernatural/Buffy/X-Files variety as we waded into the Powered by the Apocalypse game Monster of the Week. Our group of monster hunters are as follows: Demington, The Chosen (played by Ben), is a fastidious,…
Normally I’d have littered this blog with all of my gushing excitement over the next game I was about to run: and believe me, my excitement for Legend of The Five Rings is still torrential. But this whole global pandemic…
Welp, I’ve got plenty of time to sit around thinking about Legend of the Five Rings RPG now… After ingesting the fluff and checking out the game mechanics, I got into looking at what makes the characters work and how…
