<strong>“We tell the tale of heroes to remind ourselves that we also can be great.”</strong><br/>-<em>The Tao of Shinsei</em><br/><br/>OOC thread for game discussions.<br/><br/><strong>Character creation</strong><br/>As per normal, with the following additions:<br/>Advantages - 15xp spendable (will allow a little more if integral to character concept, on case by case basis)<br/>1 free roll on heritage table<br/>Starting at or around rank 2. Currently on +45xp spent after character creation. This may be raised slightly as we work up characters and see how close this gets us to rank 2.<br/><br/><br/><strong>How I handle combat</strong><br/><br/>I figured it might be worth a post here explaining how I run the combat in L5R. After everyone has rolled their initiative, the players declare their action from the lowest to the highest. This gives those with better initiative the ability to assess the situation, and perhaps take a better action than someone who has reacted slower, and who hence reacts rather than acts (if that makes any sense).<br/><br/>Then when the actions actually kick in, you go with highest initiative getting their action first. The players declared action won't kick in until their initative result is reached, but they have already commited to that action, so it carries out.<br/><br/>In a situation where the action is no longer possible .. say two attack the same target, and the faster player kills it, in effect the slower players action is wasted for that round.<br/><br/><strong>Dice rolls</strong><br/>You are samurai. Honour is a part of who you are. I will not need to see dice rolls, unless someone gets an insane string of luck at some point :)<br/><br/>Dice settings:<br/>Dice: Number of dice to roll<br/>Sides: 10<br/>Keep: Number of dice to keep<br/>Over: 10<br/>Add: Modifier to the roll ( for example, -5 for wound penalty). Putting a number here will add it to or subtract it from the final result kept.<br/><br/>This will cause dice to explode properly.<br/><br/><strong>Characters:</strong><br/>Chulanowa - Shinjo Ji-eun, Unicorn Bushi<br/>Blythe - Hida Kazuhiro, Crab Bushi<br/>Drowdeviant - Scorpion<del>Infiltrator</del>Bushi (honest)<br/>AmberStarfire - Dragon Shukenja<br/>Muse - Suzume Kyou, Sparrow Bushi<br/>Pumpkin Seeds - Akodo Narumi, Lion Bushi<br/>Marie Reynolds - Ide Hio, Unicorn courtier<br/>Crash - Yorimoto Tani, Mantis Shukenja<br/>Flying Tengu - Asahina Reiko, Crane Shukenja<br/><br/>Character sheet thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=261269.0)