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Still interested. What all do you want in the recruitment post? I'm assuming you don't want complete builds? I'm still mainly interested in playing a Crane samurai (or I guess, Bushi). You can see the general personality and equivalent background of the Rokugani character I'd play in this alias' profile (i.e. she's a shugyosha wandering the land as a duelist, whose parents are samurai in a regional hub's police force, or alternatively, in minor bureaucratic postings).
I'm familiar with d20/3.x Oriental Adventures, so that's my preference, but I'm also kind of interested to see how one of the d10 systems works. I'd probably prefer not having it be a highly-likely thing that my character dies early on just due to game mechanics, so that may lend itself less to d10 1e than some other d10 edition.
Some of that sounds a bit like the Mechwarrior RPG tabletop game. I played the 3rd edition of that, some.
On the subject of rulesets, is there a System Reference Document for any of the d10 LotFR editions that's available online? I know that I've found the d20 Oriental Adventures book in PDF form online before and it's easy to find the 3.x (I think 3.5, actually) SRD on the official OGL site. But one obvious benefit to PFRPG rules (despite the samurai being lackluster) is that it's easily available via d20pfsrd.com and aonprd.com.
I've always wanted to play in Rokugan. I've played a few Oriental Adventures d20/3.x samurai, but they were mostly in western-influenced/'traditional' settings. Not sure about Legend of the Five Rings rpg other than that I'd love to see more iaijutsu duels. Would probably play a Crane samurai, probably Kakita duelist or iaijutsu master (all of those are OA d20/3.x classes/PrCs, but I assume there's LotFR versions from the non-d20 systems).
What would the ties be? Need a hook as mentioned in my first post. That way I have an idea of the social elements. Tried to include that in the previous post, although may have needed to be more clear. Kiyoko is a shugyosha (warrior-pilgrim) from Minkai who has spent the past 6 or so years traveling Tian Xia and Avistan (mainly Avistan). While wandering in search of enlightenment at the point of a katana, she has worked as a bodyguard, an expedition guard, and possibly more saliently, became a Pathfinder while in Absalom several years ago. As both a guard on expeditions and as a Pathfinder, she's got good reason to be connected to an art collector. He sponsors expeditions to ruins, she guards expeditions to ruins; he deals in rare artifacts, she seeks those out as a Pathfinder; art collectors go places where there's danger, she works as a bodyguard (or, as she insists on referring to herself when on the job as a bodyguard, a yojimbo). Any or all of those reasons could be why she's connected to our friend Asheron Coyl.
Would need to down-level her and remove her mythic tiers, but I've an idea for this sword-saint samurai here. She's a shugyosha (essentially the samurai version of a knight-errant) who has guarded expeditions, works as a bodyguard, fights duels where she can, that sort of thing. Not keen on doing the actual build unless selected, though. |
