Legend of the Five Rings

Legend of the Five Rings (English Legend of the Five Rings; often called " L5R " for short ) is a fictional game world. This is the scene of a collectible card game and a role playing game. The name of this fictional world is Rokugan and she is a mythological Japan modeled with feudalism, but also contains elements of other East Asian cultures. Conceived and designed it in 1995 by the Alderac Entertainment Group. The title refers to the famous Japanese Samurai Miyamoto Musashi back who wrote The Book of Five Rings.

RPG

The role play was first published in Germany by the publishing world of the games, the fourth edition was published on 28 October 2010 at clockwork -Verlag.

Basic

Legend of the Five Rings ( L5R ) is a role playing game, based in a mixture of feudal Japan and China -inspired country called Rokugan. The player assumes in this system, the control of a samurai, scholars, court officials or shugenja ( Elementalist ).

Value system, weapons, martial arts and their names are based on historical Japanese models. The focus is on role-play behaviors of the characters. They are based on romanticized models, in which the concept of honor, especially compared to other classic role-playing a special role. " Do not act unconsciously dishonorable" is a central point of this role-playing game. The game is for this reason requires a good knowledge of the basic rules and values ​​particular to the team captain. The values ​​here are based heavily on Bushidōkodex and have real backgrounds.

Control and game system

Is rolled with ten -sided dice. The system uses a mechanism that is with " cubes & Keep " means (of English. Roll & Keep). This information is provided that prompt the player to select a certain number of results from a die roll. This system allows to obtain values ​​for the players that are due to the approximation achieved in other games such as Shadowrun, the statistical mean rare. For this, the notation is used for 4b2 four dice, of which only two values ​​are retained.

Awards

The role play won the Origins Award RPG 1997

Trading Card Game

There are several basic editions of the collectible card game:

The TCG received several Origins Awards for Card:

  • Best card game 1996
  • Best Card Game Expansion 1997 Time of the Void
  • Best Trading Card Game 2007
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