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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 7933278" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>Oh, I <em>tried</em> running a campaign in <strong>Legend of the Five Rings</strong> that was themed around love. The setting of L5R is basically fantasy feudal Japan, where love gets in the way of duty, but the premise was that the emperor's best friend's family holdings were nearly wiped out by a tsunami, and the whole family died except for the friend's daughter. So the emperor has arranged her a suitor who is rich enough to restore her family's fortunes, and asks his favorite poet to write a love poem for the wedding.</p><p></p><p>Two things. The suitor's identity is secret, leading the seven Great Clans to fear how an emperor-favored wedding might upset the balance of power. And the poet is going senile, and insists his apprentice write it. </p><p></p><p>But his apprentice has never been out of the imperial capital, so the emperor asks each clan to send along one single samurai to be an escort on a journey across the empire, to teach this poet in the ways of love.</p><p></p><p>It was going to be part harem anime, part samurai drama, part ironic deconstruction of western love stories by recasting them through the lens of bushido.</p><p></p><p>We got through two of the seven clans I had planned before the PCs figured out the meta-plot: the suitor is actually a ningyo (sort of like a mer-person, long ago banished from the empire) whose wealth comes from shipwrecks. His fortune <em>would</em> restore the bride's family's status, except the ningyo was actually responsible for the tsunami in the first place. </p><p></p><p>The party figured this out with a mix of guess-work and deciding to change the route of travel because they were being followed. This led to them having little motive to continue the conceit of 'travel to different clans and see how they view love.' They just alerted the emperor's people, and let powerful samurai ambush the villain and save the day.</p><p></p><p>So that was a lot of research and planning of how to mesh Cyrano de Bergerac with the Scorpion clan's tradition of wearing masks, etc. Maybe some day I'll repurpose it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 7933278, member: 63"] Oh, I [I]tried[/I] running a campaign in [B]Legend of the Five Rings[/B] that was themed around love. The setting of L5R is basically fantasy feudal Japan, where love gets in the way of duty, but the premise was that the emperor's best friend's family holdings were nearly wiped out by a tsunami, and the whole family died except for the friend's daughter. So the emperor has arranged her a suitor who is rich enough to restore her family's fortunes, and asks his favorite poet to write a love poem for the wedding. Two things. The suitor's identity is secret, leading the seven Great Clans to fear how an emperor-favored wedding might upset the balance of power. And the poet is going senile, and insists his apprentice write it. But his apprentice has never been out of the imperial capital, so the emperor asks each clan to send along one single samurai to be an escort on a journey across the empire, to teach this poet in the ways of love. It was going to be part harem anime, part samurai drama, part ironic deconstruction of western love stories by recasting them through the lens of bushido. We got through two of the seven clans I had planned before the PCs figured out the meta-plot: the suitor is actually a ningyo (sort of like a mer-person, long ago banished from the empire) whose wealth comes from shipwrecks. His fortune [I]would[/I] restore the bride's family's status, except the ningyo was actually responsible for the tsunami in the first place. The party figured this out with a mix of guess-work and deciding to change the route of travel because they were being followed. This led to them having little motive to continue the conceit of 'travel to different clans and see how they view love.' They just alerted the emperor's people, and let powerful samurai ambush the villain and save the day. So that was a lot of research and planning of how to mesh Cyrano de Bergerac with the Scorpion clan's tradition of wearing masks, etc. Maybe some day I'll repurpose it. [/QUOTE]
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