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

[carmachu]

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.

I think it was a fun setting if it was stand alone but will be interesting to see. Frankly having owned editions 1 thru 4 that I enjoyed. 5th was a skip, 5e will be interesting to take a look at

 

[Mecheon]

I never expected anyone to attempt to merge D&D with Rogukan again.

D&D is sort of an unstoppable behemoth at the moment in the RPG space, so not surprised folks sending out feelers to see if they can grab a bit of that market.

Interested to see how this one goes however. I’ve a bit of a soft spot for Rokugan, so will keep an eye on this

 

[MGibster]

D&D is sort of an unstoppable behemoth at the moment in the RPG space, so not surprised folks sending out feelers to see if they can grab a bit of that market.

At the moment? As far as RPGs go, I've only seen that behemoth slow down significantly twice in my life. Once in the 1990s and again with the release of 4th edition.

 

[cbwjm]

I think this will be good, and the best thing is, I'll be able to use all of the lore from my old rokugan books (3rd or 4th edition, i forget which) for a 5e campaign.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I know it sounds totally like a crazy idea, but if Hasbro, owners of WotC, and Embracer Group, owners of Asmodee+Edge Studio/Fantasy Flight Games, mergerd, Rokugan would be added to the D&D multiverse, and I guess with some retcon, for example adding more demihumans.

 

[MGibster]

I know it sounds totally like a crazy idea, but if Hasbro, owners of WotC, and Embracer Group, owners of Asmodee+Edge Studio/Fantasy Flight Games, mergerd, Rokugan would be added to the D&D multiverse, and I guess with some retcon, for example adding more demihumans.

On my first night at Disney World we went to dinner, I had prime rib, and it was pretty tasty. I got the bright idea that I'd have prime rib for dinner every night at a different restaurant and compare them all. It semed like wacky fun thing to do while on vacation. By the third night I was tired of prime rib. I didn't know it was possible to be tired of prime rib, but there I was, not wanting any more. I figured out I just didn't want prime rib all the time.

I like D&D, I really do. Over the last 30+ years, it's been my most played RPG even accounting for a complete cessation of D&D playing during 4th edition. But as much as I like D&D, I also enjoy playing other games on occasion, even other fantasy games. One of the things I like about those other games is that they're most decidedly not D&D. So from my point of view, to take a game/setting like Legend of the Five Rings and make it more like D&D is just sad.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Really the clans of Rokugan are based in certain tropes or stereotypes, and these can very easy to be adapted into other factions in a new-brand setting by other publisher. And WotC doesn't want a setting too focused only into Japan but also other countries from Pacific-coast Asia. And even if Hasbro is interested in the Chinese market, the rules about censure may be too "special" and complicated.

 

[Voadam]

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.

I came into 3e Rokugan straight, not from 3e OA, not from the Roll and Keep RPG, and not from the CCG.

I read it cover to cover and thought it was a fun political samurai focused D20 system setting. Interesting enough that I started getting Legend of the Five Rings RPG individual books just for the lore aspects.

D&D was my game of choice then, and it still is now. I look forward to the 5e book.

 

[MGibster]

D&D was my game of choice then, and it still is now. I look forward to the 5e book.

I could be a curmudgeon and bitterly complain about people not liking the right things. But Legend of the Five rings has had four different incarnations so far and I can't argue that it was never given a chance. I hope the Rokugan book is a success and that you and others can enjoy the contents in the many years to come.

 

[Shiroiken]

But Legend of the Five rings has had four different incarnations so far

Six actually. It had 4 regular editions of its own roll & keep system under FRPG/AEG, the d20 Rokugan product for 3E D&D, and FFG had its own unique system as well. The R&K editions did rather well, but ended when AEG sold the IP to FFG. IDK how popular the d20 product was, because everyone I know chose to use R&K system at the time (I played it once at a convention and found it... okay), I thought the idea behind the FFG system was interesting, but with the reboot/retcon to the setting, I didn't have any desire to play it.

It's a good setting that can be adapted to a lot of different systems, but obviously those systems are going to have a major impact on playstyle. The original R&K was extremely deadly, and so I tend to think of things in those terms. A 5E system is going to be far less so, probably lending itself into a more anime super-heroic style.