Riddles Wisely Expounded

[Agasha Yuna]

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 more local as time goes on. We do have things that touch on individual Daimyo (Hunt for the Oracle being one of them), but the reasons for players to interact with that adventure may have much more to do with their house than with their Family Daimyo. In the case of Hunt for the Oracle, several of the houses have problems that could really benefit from a True Answer. While we have not gotten into a lot of the Event writing, yet, there's a mechanic in the bones of the game that rewards a much wider set of house stats than Influence.

Additionally, we're developing games that zoom in on specific houses and their immediate concerns (right now, those are the Kan and the Isa, but there are *plenty* of other candidates, including the Tanose, the Terada, the Kamoshita, and the Onodera). Naturally, their stories will then take center stage, and the House mechanics will necessarily follow suit, as their resources become the building blocks of the players' success.

Finally, things will change and Houses become more important as we start to divide the factions in games not by the Clans, but by the Winds. This may, in fact, be the last Windrise game where Clan membership is the determinant factor in faction design. Obviously, that is not entirely set in stone, and Clan Daimyo will continue to exercise some influence on characters (they still want things, they still have a lot of resources), but they will start to recede a bit as that goes on. Anyway, that's the vision for the next stretch of the campaign.

Exciting!

[Shiba Ryusei]

While we have not gotten into a lot of the Event writing, yet, there's a mechanic in the bones of the game that rewards a much wider set of house stats than Influence.

Gonna suck to be Ryusei

[Isawa Shingo]

While we have not gotten into a lot of the Event writing, yet, there's a mechanic in the bones of the game that rewards a much wider set of house stats than Influence.

squees in excitement