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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9253171" data-attributes="member: 4534">I've been reading my Legend of the Five Rings 5th edition book, and they've got an interesting set of rules that allows you to handle social situations in a variety of ways.  Let's say I've got my character Mirumoto Omi who is at winter court and runs into Kakita Mariko who is a fencer of great reknown as is of a high social status.  Omi's goal during this part of the game is to get in Mariko's good graces with the hope of receiving some instruction over the winter.  And why not?  All he's doing is getting fat while the courtiers spend all winter flattering and stabbing one another from behind their fans. Omi starts out by demonstrating he's got good manners and the GM has him roll his Courtesy skill and his Water Ring.  Another bushi, that jerk Bayushi Seiko, joins the conversation in the hopes of fencing lessons from Mariko and and the topic turns to the preferred weapon for different battle scenarios.  Omi decides to argue Seiko's choice of a bow is both cowardly and weak, hopefully to incite him to break face and humiliate himself in front of Mariko.  The GM allows him to roll his Martial Arts Ranged with his Fire Ring and he gets several successes.  Seiko is faced with either bowing out of the conversation, leaving Omi the clear winner, or staying and losing Honor.  Either way, Seiko gains several levels of stress.</blockquote>