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<blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 2051392" data-attributes="member: 2268"><p>Yeah, I'm one of those, and there's a simple reason for it. It's not the depth of the storylines I'm complaining about...it's the sense they make. Want an example?</p><p></p><p>The Scorpion Clan Coup: The whole thing is complete nonsense, from the storylines and characterizations they wrote up for the RPG. According to <em>Way of the Scorpion</em>, Bayushi Shoju wouldn't have made it out of Scorpion lands while wearing Ambition. They'd have shot him down like they did with the other two Scorpion clan daimyo who tried that stunt before him. And even if he had...he'd have stood alone in Otosan Uchi, not surrounded by his clan. And then the scene about Toturi. I mean, come on...the new Emperor, a young man who owes his life and throne to Akodo Toturi...and the first thing he does is behave like a spoiled 6-years old, ripping his greatest defender out of the Empire? Suuuure. And Yogo Junzo, a man who, from his description in the clanbook</p><p></p><p>is so griefstricken and insulted at the Emperor's treatment of the Scorpion clan in general and Bayushi Shoju especially, a man he "officially" despises for his weakness to rely on Bayushi Kachiko as a crutch, that he goes and does what?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Huh? I'm sorry, it simply makes absolutely <strong>no sense</strong> at all when viewed from the point of the RPG. Just because the team of authors created a lot of fancy, flashy stories around the CCG tournaments doesn't mean they made any sense whatsoever in the RPG storyline. To be honest, in my eyes it was the worst decision that could have been made about how to develop Rokugan in the RPG.</p><p></p><p>But that's the fun part about being a GM. You can change what you don't like and erase what makes no sense. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geron Raveneye, post: 2051392, member: 2268"] Yeah, I'm one of those, and there's a simple reason for it. It's not the depth of the storylines I'm complaining about...it's the sense they make. Want an example? The Scorpion Clan Coup: The whole thing is complete nonsense, from the storylines and characterizations they wrote up for the RPG. According to [i]Way of the Scorpion[/i], Bayushi Shoju wouldn't have made it out of Scorpion lands while wearing Ambition. They'd have shot him down like they did with the other two Scorpion clan daimyo who tried that stunt before him. And even if he had...he'd have stood alone in Otosan Uchi, not surrounded by his clan. And then the scene about Toturi. I mean, come on...the new Emperor, a young man who owes his life and throne to Akodo Toturi...and the first thing he does is behave like a spoiled 6-years old, ripping his greatest defender out of the Empire? Suuuure. And Yogo Junzo, a man who, from his description in the clanbook is so griefstricken and insulted at the Emperor's treatment of the Scorpion clan in general and Bayushi Shoju especially, a man he "officially" despises for his weakness to rely on Bayushi Kachiko as a crutch, that he goes and does what? Huh? I'm sorry, it simply makes absolutely [b]no sense[/b] at all when viewed from the point of the RPG. Just because the team of authors created a lot of fancy, flashy stories around the CCG tournaments doesn't mean they made any sense whatsoever in the RPG storyline. To be honest, in my eyes it was the worst decision that could have been made about how to develop Rokugan in the RPG. But that's the fun part about being a GM. You can change what you don't like and erase what makes no sense. :) [/QUOTE]
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