I think it important to note that he has pretty much nothing to do with this edition, having grabbed his dick to run off and make 7th Sea nearly two presidential terms before this book hit print. He also was one of the major people behind L5R both in card game and RPG format. And despite that fact, he is best known as a DM and a game designer, bringing in a giant WTF from everyone with enough brain cells to get a group discount. He really likes to break rules, and throw temper tantrums when people use rules as-is, which makes him extremely annoying to deal with as a DM or game designer. This board has a little bit of hate crush on John Wick, which is understandable because he's an asshole. However, I'm going to try to be aware of my own cognitive bias here and only call out direction changes in the storyline that are genuine train wrecks rather than just things that are a different color from the rosy hue of my nostalgia glasses. After all, I am a known former fanboy of this setting and can probably be counted upon to shout at the kids on my lawn no matter what direction the storyline decided to go in the gosh, nearly two decades since I first became invested in this setting. So you'll be forgiven if you discount much or all of my hair pulling about the fluff. Of course, in the original rules that character counted as an item. The original card game had great art for the time and a lot of flavorful characters. But I still liked the setting, and when they made a d20 version in the 2000s, I ran a long running Rokugan D&D campaign (K played a Scorpion clan sorcerer in that one). a falling out with the AEG people where they banned me from discussing their rules (and wrote in my suggested rules change to the next edition of the rulebook without attribution), and asked me to keep writing fanfics for them – which I declined. This was back when the fandom was small enough that a vocal and halfway decent fanfiction writer could push the overall arc of the storyline in one direction or another, and there was a Crab Clan / Nezumi alliance for a while pretty much because I wrote one in. This came out in 2005, making it a decade old come the new year.įull disclosure: back in the 90s, teenage Frank Trollman was one of the better players of the card game on the planet and wrote stories for their listserv (it was the 90s).
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