The core of the plan is that the Clan Daimyo will get more and more inert, and the houses will be the dynamic forces of the campaign. You can see that already starting to happen when you look at the character goals--most folks have either personal or local ambitions. The games will also start to get...

We have not made full determinations of everything, yet. While I would say the bones and structure of the game are in place, the more detailed questions will need to wait, possibly some months, for us to get everything together correctly. I would hate to steer you wrong.

Not so much, really. It's just that they don't always fit the theme. Getting into Takao's retinue requires that you be important enough to have your witness of his greatness be meaningful (to Takao), so ronin, unfortunately, don't quite have the social punch. In the future, there are many game ideas...

Thank you for your votes and feedback. They are appreciated. Clearly, the Travel-adventure style has emerged as the winner. Of those, the game most immediate to the campaign is the Hunt for the Oracle, in which players will join the entourage of Isawa Takao to try and find the Oracle of Fire and lea...

One of them is also very, very long.

It just occurred to me that I did this with Kaguya and Minehime's scene, but you can see that their status kind of marginalizes Ryu, which wasn't totally awesome. Tatsuya would be more on Ryoichi's level, so would have been a different exercise.

I think I would have been a little more comfortable with that than GB (a consequence of being an only-child? A manifestation of my madness? Who is to say?), but there is an awkwardness at the start of the scene because you essentially need to know what is going to go down in order to manage the voic...

Fuku and I got tired, is really the answer there.

Final Update: Pursuant to the successful completion of their Clan Goal "As Time Goes By..." the sum of the Influence or Status ranks of the spouses in the better of the Crane's marriages to each Great Clan is subtracted from the influence total of Otomo Keihime. Those marriages are: Crab: Katsuragi ...

As the attendees at Court disperse, they will talk, and that talk will turn, inevitably, to the Winds. How have their personal legends grown? What new ideas will be attached to them? Let's find out!

-The day after court ends, Kotobe Haruto, a ronin and drunkard, is executed for accidentally starting the granary fire in a drunken stupor. The execution itself is conducted in private. No display is made of the criminal's head. -It is formally announced in Otosan Uchi that Otomo Keihime has adopted...

Sure! Miyagino: Intimidation 15, Temptation 20. Miyagino is a simple man of simple pleasures. He values his personal comfort, his reputation, sake, and cash. There is a story that, early in his career, he feigned illness rather than face the famous Rikuhudo in the ring. Onogawa: Temptation 15, Spear...

That was an illustration of how the house system generates its own problems which will end up feeding the Winds crisis. The Shimomura and Kamoshita (and the Kamoshita and all their neighbors) have feuded quite a bit over the years. The Kamoshita recognized that the succession crisis would inevitably...

Final post-game events write-up and Wind reports almost ready. Just waiting on one or two more folks.

Devil Chase results are up.

The Chase wound its way through castle and town, driving the bad spirits away with the crash of bow and shield and raising the spirits of the many with the power of the dance. Rokugan was being made anew, and though this day began inauspiciously, hope was beginning to crest on the horizon. And, thro...

You were so busy! I'm tempted to say Togashi Mizohachi, but I'm not sure if that would have worked well. I think Ryusei might have gotten an interesting perspective from Sanae or Minehime. Sanae never really got out of the treaty-stamping area, but her very balanced way of looking at life (art vs. w...

Director's Cut Question: Think back on the game as a whole. If you could go back, and add just one more scene with my character and one of your NPCs in it, what would it be? Who is there? What are they doing/talking about? I think Eiji would have benefited from a nice sit-down with Shosuro Asakaze,...

Eiji, you didn't do anything wrong. I was just surprised, is all.

I had hoped to get Batsuda and Tsuruyo out more in general. But there are future games, and neither of them are done. Thoughts/questions Was the assassination attempt on D10 always going to be Tatsuya, or was it targeting the Wind with most influence at that point? I have to admit, it was not clear...