[OA] Phoenix Shugenja

[Samnell]

I'm on my first time making up an OA PC, for a friend's Rokugan game. I decided I wanted to cook up an Isawa school Shugenja. According to OA, I know four inori (cantrips) and 2 first level spells, plus one inori and one first level spell from my school at first level.

Alright, so I went to the spell lists and for Phoenix Shugenja I can only find mention fo the Agasha school. There's no list for Isawa. I checked the errata and couldn't find one there either. I recall the issue coming up back when OA was released and there being an answer to the problem, but I can't recall it and can't seem to find it anywhere no James Wyatt's site or at ENWorld.

Does anybody know what the Isawa are supposed to do?

 

[Hygric]

From memory they are supposed to choose their school spell from their favoured element. I think it might be mentioned in the FAQ somewhere.

My houserule for Isawa was that they pick their school spell from their opposed element, to reflect that school being masters of all four elements.

 

[Mr Fidgit]

Rokugan sourcebook pg 38 - "The shugenja of the Phoenix clan's Isawa school can specialize in any of the four elements. The Isawa school also trains shugenja who specialize in the fifth element, Void."

so they can choose any of the schools (air, earth, fire, water - on pgs 95-6) or the Void school (and new Void spells start on) page 107

 

[Zhure]

It's in the FAQ somewhere, but basically the Isawa chooses an element then can select any spell of that element at each level to be his school spell, as long as it's a regular shugenja spell (not a unique one).

For example, an Isawa Fire Shugenja can't take Fireball at fourth level, because it's not on the regular shugenja list, even though it's a school spell for the Asahina.

(Example done from memory)
Greg