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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 49239" data-attributes="member: 1792">I was considering doing a Rokugan campaign myself this summer so I have been searching as well. Here are my findings. Get the Creautres of Rokugan book. It is a must. It is also more that just a monster manual. I like the artwork (although it is grayscale) and the paper is durable. Magic of Rokugan and Way of the Samurai are not out yet as far as I can tell. I will get them as soon as I find them. They DO contain d20 info according to AEG's website and sound like they will be pretty useful.  Jade and Seel is more of a chinese setting than japanese. It is not bad and it doesn't cost much. You can easily do without it though. It has a couple of monk prestige classes, a fighter prestige class (based on Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon apparently) and a couple of cleric prestige classes. Nothing in the book is all that vital to a Rokugan setting game that I would recommend buying it though. Do NOT buy Fend Shui d20. I cannot emphasize that enough. It wasn't even worth the little I paid for it. I think it was Green Ronin that put out a monster manual book that was pretty good. It is called Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts. There is a lot of stuff that doesn't fit Rokugan, but there is also plenty that does, and it is only about $15.00. The artwork is also quite good. I am also finding that it is necessary to find some of the original Legend of the Five Rings books because neither the Oriental Adventures book nor the d20 Rokugan book explain much about certain bits of the Rokugan setting (such as the Kolat and the Lying Darkness). Information on the Kolat can really only be found in the Merchant's Guide to Rokugan. The book is a misnomer. It has nothing to do with merchants and everything to do with the Kolat secret society. It is not d20 but it is easy to convert (use the rules in the back of the d20 Rokugan book to convert characters or convert them on your own) because most of the book is background about the organization, its members, tacits and its goals. It is quite useful but not as cheap as I'd like (about $20, and thin paperback) but it is a must to understand the Kolat. The book is hard to find in stores. The Way of the Shadow (I think that is its name) is the only detailed info on the Lying Darkness that I have been able to find. It costs the same as the Kolat book and is equally hard to find. There are some other L5R books that I like and am planning to use. There is a whole sourcebook about a single small town that the PCs can be based in. It is called The Village of Mimura or something like that. The book is cool because it details nearly everyone in the village and provides farily detailed personalities of characters the PCs will interact with day to day and info on how to use them, as well as adventure possibilities depenging on what clan the PCs belong to. The City of Lies boxed set is pretty good. It describes an entire Rokugan city. It is full of intrigue and very good character descriptions all set in a city full of vice and treachery. It also has more details on how the Emerald Magistrates work and how a large Rokugani city operates.  The map of the city is only ok. The boxed set Otosan Uchi (or something like that) describes the imperial capital. I think this one is out of print and it is very hard to find. The city map is nice. Overall the set is not as useful as the City of Lies because the PCs are less likely to visit often. That is what I have learned so far. Tzarevitch</blockquote>

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