Long time player of Legend of 5 Rings here, but after the Kotei Sessions 4 years ago, I decided to take a lomg break from it. Now I'm going back, but only on the RPG-Side, can't afford Card game right now.
I'm really liking the Core 4 Edition, but want to use all that 3 edition books. The rules are similar, but not enough, so the great question is...
someone knows of some adaptation of the schools of 3 edition to 4? Specially interested on the Crab and Phoenix ones.
Edit: Forgot the other question: I have really liked 4 edition, but I'm curious of the differences on play. Is much different from 3Ed?
I haven't played 4th much, but it seems like it gets out of hand much slower than 3rd. 3rd gets broken mathematically very quickly, it plays decently at first and second ranks, but a focused character can get ridiculous by third rank.
I would check the AEG forums for conversion info. Back in the day, 4-5 years ago, there was a decent community on their forums that did fan conversions of all previous edition stuff.
Some schools are in 4th edition Great Clans (e.g. Kaiu Engineers, Kuni Witch Hunters) and Emerald Empire books.
Late to the party, I know, but I just wanted to point out that "mechanics bloat" is high on the list of things AEG wanted to avoid in 4th Edition.
So, where 3.X was fine with giving out a school or a path to any and every possible character concept, 4th Ed. is all about trimming that back: Many of the previous Schools have become Advanced Schools, or even Paths, and some were just so corner-case that they were cut completely and left up to the player to emulate via roleplay and skill selection.