Hello! I'm an experienced RPG player and GM, with almost 15 years of gaming under my belt (with a few years hiatus here and there). I've mostly played D&D and Pathfinder, but I've got a great love in my heart for the 4th edition of Legend of the Five Rings (NOT 4e D&D), and have been hankering to throw a game together for some time now. I've recently gotten into gaming online with Discord, as I'm a player in one group online, and I find it is just so much more appealing to me than PbP.
For those of you who don't know, L5R, or Legend of the Five Rings, is an Eastern Fantasy setting that is similar to Edo-Era Japan, with elements of Chinese and Korean myth scattered in, though much less than Japanese. The emphasis is on the samurai, or noble class, and mechanically it uses a roll/keep system, where instead of your d20+modifier, you roll a number of dice and keep a smaller amount of the highest rolled.
The setting is inhabited by major and minor clans that vie for favor in the eyes of the Emperor. Sometimes they work together against a greater evil (or in demand of the Emperor), sometimes they have shadow battles against one another, sometimes they outright go to war.
This is also a setting where Roleplay really matters - so much so that there's an entire class, the courtier, that is devoted to political maneuvering and such. Personally, as a GM, I try to mix both combat and RP into the game. After all, if you only wanted to talk, you'd join an Improv troupe - and if you only wanted to fight you'd be playing a video game.
The game will be Saturdays, and we can negotiate the hours based upon availability. I have 2 players that are already interested in playing. I'm looking for at least 1 more, and potentially up to 3 more for a total of 3-5 players (not counting me as GM).
A few things to note:
Maturity matters. Please act like an adult. We can laugh and be silly and stuff, like any gaming group. My players so far range from upper 20s to late 30s. We can take it outside of this spectrum, but no kids or teens, please. Foul language and violence and gore are all probable. Also, nobody wants to hear you Roleplay how you banged the waitress. Not to say romance and sex can't be an element to your character, but it fades to black, as it were, and we move on.
For character creation, we'll use standard rules, though anything from the 4eL5R books will be allowed (aside from Spider Clan, for story reasons). If you're playing from a school outside of your clan, there should be a story reason. Eh, there should be a story reason for anything, really, if you think about it.
Familiarity with the setting and system are not required, as long as you're willing to do the legwork to figure it out. I'll help, of course!
We're going to use Discord voice to communicate, and a dice bot to roll. I haven't decided on mapping yet, but it will either be Google Docs with a group-editable set of maps and tokens, or Roll20, or possibly just theater of the mind.
Questions are welcome here or in PM. Interest can be expressed in either, as well. Just do me a favor and let me know the depth of your experience as a Tabletop RPG player (or GM). Let me know what times would work for you if you do express interest, and if you have a character idea and you wanna run it by me - that's okay too (or you can wait to make characters with the other players in a "session 0" situation. The more your characters are intertwined with each other, the more easily I can throw story hooks that appeal to your characters)