D&D 5E L5R / Rokugan for D&D 5E

[jayoungr]

I wish my friend Doug (who passed away from covid complications in March) could have seen this. He was a huge fan of L5R and homebrewed his own shugenja class for 5E.

 

[Li Shenron]

I think you could do it. It's just not-for-profit fan work.

@Morrus is there any risk for the website?

 

[Urriak Uruk]

As cool as this is (and boy is it cool), this Edge Studio is a confusing brand. Its FFG newest TTRPG company, but their website seems to be down, and they seem to only communicated through social media, and pretty sporadically.

They are also supposed to be bringing back the Star Wars TTRPG, Midnight, and a Twilight Imperium (through Genesys) but its hard to find details on only of these projects and their release dates.

So I'm cautiously optimistic, though the marketing here seems very messy.

 

[Campbell]

Hopeful that this will not impact the main product line. The current edition has done a much better job of being a game about samurai drama. I hope this follows suit or at the very least does not represent a move towards more action adventure oriented play in the main line.

 

[Voadam]

I read through and enjoyed the AEG Rokugan 3.0 d20 book without having 3.0 Oriental Adventures or more than a peripheral background knowledge of L5R. I enjoyed it a lot. It was a very samurai focused fantasy setting with identifiable thematic imperial clans and interclan politics as big factors, plus the Shadowlands on the edge of the Empire as a dark forces alternate motif even though I dislike taint mechanics in general.

I did not end up adding fantasy samurai to my homebrew campaign and I did not play in any Rokugan d20 or L5R games but I enjoyed reading the setting book and the feel of the world and got a few follow up sourcebooks on creatures, magic, and the Shadowlands.

I would be moderately interested in a 5e adaptation.

 

[Voadam]

There will be a little overlap with Storm Bunny Studio's Mists of Akuma, which is a 5e samurai horror setting with a bit of cybertech. Rokugan has more samurai clan politics focus and the horror aspects are not as central, but there is still a bunch of thematic overlap.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

If you remember some post by me in the past you will notice sometimes I like to speculate about future merger and acquisition of companies. WotC is going to publish the card game of Netrunner.

L5R may be a great hook for the otaku community (here in Spain the word otaku is not a pejorative term for the manganime fandom).

I would like interesting PC races although Rokugan is too focused into the standar humans.

 

[overgeeked]

Discussion in another thread reminded me of this.

Still a WIP and planned for Q3 2022.

Adventures in Rokugan - Edge Studio

The Roleplaying Game for all Settings.

edge-studio.net

 

[carmachu]

Discussion in another thread reminded me of this.

Still a WIP and planned for Q3 2022.

Adventures in Rokugan - Edge Studio

The Roleplaying Game for all Settings.

edge-studio.net

Going to be interesting to see how they translate the system into 5e.

 

[MGibster]

I'm very, very surprised. I thought the adaptation of Rokugan for 3rd edition was a horrible mismatch of setting and system. I never expected anyone to attempt to merge D&D with Rogukan again. For those of you looking forward to it, I hope you like it.