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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gaiden" data-source="post: 2048904" data-attributes="member: 103">I had never even heard of L5R except for perhaps seeing a box of card packs at the local RPG shop and thinking that perhaps they made another M:tG card game this time with a feudal japan flavor.  The advent of OA was my introduction to Rokugan and when I saw the hard cover campaign world source book I about spooged my pants (ok, exageration - I don't get that excited about Rokugan...really).Seriously speaking thought, Rokugan is my favorite D20 book of all time and Rokugan is the most rich and flavorful campaign world that that D&D has ever seen - even FR's with its multitude of 2E and 3.X E books (probably in the hundreds) pales in comparison.  Anyone I talk to about D&D finds out sooner or later that I think that the establishment of Rokugan as the OA world and AEG's d20 material detailing that world was the best decision WotC ever made and that is my favorite world in all of D&D.I will be truely saddened to see no further d20 material published.  Of course, I have every single d20 book that AEG has made for Rokugan.  Even the Rokugan equivalent to the arms and equipment guide (which I probably could have skipped out on).  Rokugan is definitely my favorite.  A close second is Way of the Samurai.  I have read everything but for the life of me could not begin to recite all of the flavor (I gaff at your labeling of it as fluff - that is what makes these books so good).  I have got most of the mechanics down though.Coming from a solid background of D&D and also being a graduate student with not too much time to do anything else, I found that had the product not converted to d20, I would have never gotten into it; never even heard of it.  I know d20 amazingly well (yes, I am a ruleslawyer) and have 300kb text files of house rules.  I tried to learn another system once:  Shadowrun and I found that having such a poor understanding of the rules limited my gaming experience tremendously.  I don't have the time to learn another rules system to the same degree that I know d20, and based on what I've read so far, I am kind of dissappointed - it sounds like L5R 3E woudl be really cool to get into.  Alas, "its a question of time".If d20 Rokugan has ended I am thankful that they produced everything up to this point.  I have found a few L5R sourcebooks:  way of the ratlling, something on the shadowlands, etc. and most of it was flavor so I might buy some of the older stuff and much of the new anyway.  My advice to AEG is to jam as much flavor and history as possible into the new books.  IMO, they may find that their d20 dip attracted a loyal if minor following that aren't familiar with L5R mechanics and prefer d20.</blockquote>

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