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A larger version of my Generics List. See the original (iscaneus.deviantart.com/art/L5… ) for more details.The schools are as follows:
Crab: Ashigaru, Hida Bushi, Kuni Shugenja, Hiruma Scout, Kaiu Engineer, Kuni Witch Hunter, Hida Berserker
Crane: Ashigaru, Kakita Duelist, Asahina Shugenja, Daidoji Harrier, Daidoji Iron Warrior, Doji Magistrate, Daidoji Yojimbo
Dragon: Ashigaru, Mirumoto Bushi, Tamori Shugenja, Tattooed Monk, Kitsuki Investigator, Mirumoto Taoist Swordsman, Tamori Alchemist
Lion: Ashigaru, Akodo Bushi, Kitsu Shugenja, Matsu Berserker, Ikoma Tactician, Matsu Beastmaster, Lion Elite Spearman
Mantis: Ashigaru, Yoritomo Bushi, Moshi Shugenja, Tsuruchi Archer, Tsuruchi Bounty Hunter, Mantis Brawler, Yoritomo Shugenja
Phoenix: Ashigaru, Shiba Bushi, Isawa Shugenja, Asako Henshin, Agasha Shugenja, Shiba Yojimbo, Asako Inquisitor
Scorpion: Ashigaru, Bayushi Bushi, Soshi Shugenja, Shosuro Shinobi, Yogo Wardmaster, Soshi Magistrate, Bayushi Saboteur
Spider: Ashigaru, Daigotsu Bushi, Chuda Shugenja, Goju Ninja, Order of the Spider Monk, Dark Moto Cavalry, Ninube Shugenja
Unicorn: Ashigaru, Moto Bushi, Ide Shugenja, Shinjo Scout, Utaku Battle Maiden, Meishodo Shugenja, Moto Priest of Death
Imperial Families: Ashigaru, Seppun Guardsman, Seppun Shugenja, Emerald Magistrate, Jade Magistrate, Imperial Legionary, Toturi Bushi
Owl Clan: Ashigaru, Hantei Bushi, Seppun Shugenja, Scholar of the First Dawn Monk, Kenku Swordsman, Seppun Guardsman, Otomo Astrologer
Bear Clan: Ashigaru, Ryoshun Bushi, Mori Shugenja, Ryoshun Ranger, Kuma Barbarian, Ichiro Bushi, Kitsune Shugenja
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It's simply perfect for 3 reasons.
First because the minimalism of pixel art is a real challenge that is largely won here, with your attention to detail.
Then because all schools are represented ! I can present this work to my players to help them in their character creation!
Finally because you propose a personal vision of 10 clans corresponding to the 10 Kami, taking into account Ryoshun. I would like to know more. What are, in your parts, the values of the Bear Clan? What is his average Honor? How does the Bear Clan view the other Clans?
Thank you for offering your talent for the L5R universe.
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Oh, yeah, I got so caught up responding I forgot to say: thank you for your kind words!
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Thank you for this complete description.
My story is about the existence of Ryoshun, whose name and story is falsified and corrupted by the Kolat and Shinsei Brotherhood. I will propose that it is possible to form a new Clan under the banner of Ryoshun, in order to stop the rumors of opportunists and reunite families scattered.
At the end of the Iweko Era, and thus at the end of the AEG storyline, the Unicorn Clan claims the Kitsune family but fails. Later, the Mantis Clan sacrifices itself and disappears. Respecting their agreement, the Kitsune family was never forced to take part in the fight, and become is a compatible choice.
I do not know who the Mori Shugenja are, but the Komori Family of the Bat Clan is, like the Fox Clan, related to the animal spirits and now detached from the Mantis Clan.
In parallel, the Clan of the Dragon locks itself under a dome of earth. This fact can be used to allow the Kuma Berserker Yobanjin to cross the Dragon's lands like the North Wilds in Game of Thrones. This faction would then be a compatible choice.
Politically, the Clan will be represented at Court, and will be created (or found) a family that is consistent with the natural side. It could be:
- to use Techniques involving the Will, like Yoritomo Courtisan School.
- to use Techniques involving Perception, like an animal flair.
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I found in the unnoficial supplement "Court of the Minor Clan" the Tanuki Clan. This corresponds to a "for fun" vision of an animal-side School based with the Imperial Archives informations p66.
The Tanuki Clan
Family Bonus : + 1 Stamina
Bushi
Bonus: +1 Agility
Skills: Chain Weapons, Defense, Hunting (Survival), Jiujutsu, Kenjutsu, Lore: Shapeshifters, any one High or Bugei Skill
Honor: 4.5
Rank 1 : Once per day, after an attack roll, you may turn a single die which rolled a one into a ten, which doesn’t explode
Rank 2 : No penalty for inebriation in combat. If you’ve had at least one cup’s worth of sake in the thirty minutes preceding the fight, you may add +3 to your Armor TN.
Rank 3 : Attack as a Simple Action when using a samurai weapon or a chain weapon.
Rank 4 : If your Stance this turn is different from your Stance the previous turn, you may add +3k0 to any one skill roll this turn. This technique cannot be used on the first turn of a fight.
Rank 5 : Once per day, after a successful attack against you but before damage is rolled, you may spend a Void point to activate this technique. You lose all of your remaining Void points, but the attack is now considered to have missed, and you suffer no damage or effects from it. To outsiders, this looks like a last moment fluke, but the Tanuki believe they momentarily pass into the spirit world when this happens – up to the GM to decide whether this is true or not.
Sake Master (Monk)
Bonus: +1 Void
Skills: Athletics, Defense, Jiujutsu, Meditation (Void Recovery), Staves (Bo), Tea Ceremony (Sake), any one High or Merchant Skill.
Honor: 2.5
Special: Mechanically this School is treated on page 231 in the L5R 4th Core rule book as a Brotherhood Monk School.
Technique: Just One More Drink
Whenever your character becomes intoxicated by sake, you may double the mechanical effects of spending a Void Point (if applicable). This ability can be used a number of times per session equal to your School Rank. Also, your character can perform the Tea Ceremony with sake. If your character is intoxicated while performing the tea ceremony, participants regain an extra Void Point.
You also begin the game knowing two Kiho.
You must meet all prerequisites in order to use these Kiho. You may purchase additional Kiho normally as per the rules for a Brotherhood of Shinsei monk. You may also perform Martial Kiho (including Atemi), while using a Bo Staff.
Ambassador (Courtier) (Path)
Technique Rank: 2-4
Replaces: Any Tanuki school rank from 2 to 4 of your choice.
(Ronin Sake lovers have been known to swear fealty into the Tanuki clan. Those who do may access this Technique provided that they find a suitable teacher who is sober enough to teach them.)
Requirements: Craft: Brewing 3, Temptation 3
Technique: One More for the Road
You may use the Temptation skill to entice someone else into entering a drinking contest. While doing so, Temptation is not considered a Low Skill for you. This is a contested roll of your Temptation/ Awareness against their Etiquette (Courtesy)/Awareness.
By spending a Void point, you may immediately roll the same against another bystander, who will join the drinking contest as well, to a maximum number of participants equal to your school rank +1 (not including yourself). All participants who fail to resist MUST have as many drinks as you do, or a number of drinks equal to your Void Ring, whichever is higher. Those who beat your contested roll may choose to decline, but if there are witnesses, they lose 2 points of Glory.
Needless to say that if this happens in your establishment, the victims need to pay for their drinks (business is business). Failing to do so may incur an Obligation to you, at the GM’s discretion.
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Very cool! The Mori were a Bear-clan shugenja family created when we first came up with the Bear almost a decade ago. Back then the Bear were a gag, a group of barbarians who had decided they were samurai and were calling themselves a "great" clan. It was all very Monty-Python esque and silly and only over time did we start to refine things into the semi-serious version I presented above.
I'm glad to hear you'll be able to make use of the sprites! I've been working on an illustrated "Dramatis Personae" for my players for the current game and have sprited up nearly every notable character they've met. It's been a slog, but also a lot of fun.
One of the goofy parts of the Bear mythos that has survived is that the current head of the Bear clan is actually a Chikashudo spirit named Kuma Bruce (another inside gag is that the Bear use Celtic and Germanic names) who is, well, basically just a big bear. He even has to have an interpreter for those rare occasions when someone from outside the clan ever meets him.
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Hoo boy... where to start with the Bear....
First off, and I can't stress this enough, my group does not take gaming very seriously. (That is to say, we like to keep things irreverent.) Secondly, we play in an alternate setting presented in the Imperial Histories II sourcebook published by AEG where the kami Togashi, not Hantei, took the throne. My take on the setting does not have the Mantis as a great clan yet, either. With those facts firmly in mind, I present the Bear Clan (as per the World Bible I wrote as a primer for my players):
Ryoshun’s clan was founded when he was taken back in by Kami Akodo. While on a hunting excursion in the far north of the empire, Akodo came across the tracks of an enormous bear. Tracking the animal for three days deeper and deeper into the tangled bracken of the dark forest he finally cornered the beast. Raising his bow and arrow he aimed for the creature’s eye when to his astonishment he saw not the face of a bear but that of his brother, thought dead at the hands of their father, Lord Moon. Dropping his bow, Akodo stood in astonishment as the creature shook off its furry coat and shrunk down to the size of a large man. Ryoshun dropped unconscious to the forest floor and was brought back to a nearby village.
When he awoke, Ryoshun could not recall how he had arrived in Rokugan. He spoke of the land of the dead and ghostly passages through haunted mountains. Dreaming of forests and beasts, he had found himself, confused and injured, wandering the strange woods Akodo had encountered him in. After he had healed more, Akodo brought his brother before Togashi and his other siblings. The emperor went into private consultation with his lost brother and when they returned Togashi proclaimed Ryoshun the daimyo of the Bear Clan, giving him the territories of the northwest as his own.
It is said that Togashi had forseen this reunion and that he had purposefully left those territories unaligned in preparation. Indeed, the lost kami seemed uneasy in cities and only in the wild places of the countryside could he seem to find peace. The kami, who came to be referred to by the epithet, “The Bear,” was a fierce warrior who lost himself to fits of black rage when fighting. In the battles against the Shadowlands he was an unstoppable force, and Fu-Leng himself was loathe to engage his brother in a straight fight.
Ryoshun’s clan is most at home in the wild places of Rokugan. The samurai of the Bear are seen as strange brutes by many in the empire. Only the Crab and the Unicorn hold any love for their cousins, seeing their wild spirit and ferocious nature as similar to their own. The Lion admire the Bear’s fighting strength but look down on their lack of discipline and tolerance for non-humans, many of which dwell with in the dense forests and mountains of the Bear’s lands. The Owl, naturally, think the opposite, appreciating the Bear’s relationship with the spirits but find their love of battle tiresome. The Crane, Phoenix, and Scorpion find the Bear uncouth and are often unwilling to work with them. The Bear share a special relationship with the Imperial families, though, and their strange customs and feral behavior go unnoticed in official Imperial courts, much to the displeasure of many of the attending courtiers.
As the Bear Clan grew they expanded, gaining like-minded members and families. Stout Ichiro, whom Ryoshun called “Brother Badger” and mysterious Kitsune, likewise “Little Fox,” brought their talents to the clan. It was Kuma though, a barbarian from the Yobanjin tribes to the north, with whom the kami felt the greatest kinship. While the other clans balked at a gaijin being admitted into the household of a kami, Togashi simply smiled and said the Bear was in need of kindred spirits.
The inclusion of the Bear clan is not included with balance in mind. The schools used, the social faux pas they are constantly guilty of, the way we present them in game (totally tongue-in-cheek) won't make your games any more "serious." But we have fun. Lots, and lots of fun!
The Bear Clan uses the following schools: Ryoshun Bushi (Yotsu Bushi - Imperial Histories pg 276), Ichiro Bushi, Kuma Berserker (Free Ogre Bushi - Enemies of the Empire pg 237 albeit with an honor of 3.5), and Kitsune Shugenja. Additionally, arguments can be made for other “hardcore” schools having Bear variants (Crab Knife-fighter for example.)
Ryoshun: Con
Kuma: Str
Mori: Awa
Kitsune: Wil
Ichiro: Str
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Nope, just fan-art. L5R is a tabletop pen-and-paper RPG currently produced by Fantasy Flight Games but up until recently it was published (and created by) Alderac Entertainment. My group of friends have been playing various L5R campaigns for the last decade and this was my way of paying homage to that.
I do plan on using these as game tokens for our campaigns at home, but it's purely a fan-thing. Nothing official.
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Anyway I must say you that you are quite good with the pixel art!
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If there were such thing as Legend of the 5 Rings game, it would be combining Advanced Wars + Fire Emblem + Nobunaga's Ambition type of game. I love it. I also would love it to play the game.
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I'd love a Nobunaga's Ambition-styled L5R game. That would be incredible.
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I was thinking more like, have Nobunaga's Ambition overworld where you create/manage your units/buildings. Then in battles you can have a Fire Emblem/Advanced Wars style of gameplay.
It would be,
10/10, 10/10. 100/100, Best Game, Best Game.
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