Total War?

I wildly disagree. You play in my world when i'm running an RPG, and I pick and choose what I want to put into my game. And I increasingly find the history based off of the CCGs poor RPG background. Too much done by too many too quickly. I run 1st ed timeline for a reason.

The Lion aren't allowed to win military engagements because they won their quoata of them before the game started. Now they just have to suffer losing to any 4 year old with a pointy stick.

Well obviously when you're running you can do what you want. But they don't put out weekly fiction for your and my RPG game, they do it for the CCG tournaments. Use your 1st edition timeline if you want, but I find the premise of the Crab allying with the Shadowlands to be far less believable than the Unicorn stomping on the Lion.

Well obviously when you're running you can do what you want. But they don't put out weekly fiction for your and my RPG game, they do it for the CCG tournaments. Use your 1st edition timeline if you want, but I find the premise of the Crab allying with the Shadowlands to be far less believable than the Unicorn stomping on the Lion. I never said that I had a problem with the Lion losing a battle. They lost the Battle for the City of the Rich Frog. I thought that the reason why the Khan didn't take the city was weird. The current loss had nothing to do with a tournament and I thought that the reasoning that they used was faulty. The Crab Fortune of Invulnerability that came back to make darn sure his clan suffers with the Shadowlands Taint is really bizzare to. I am running my games in and around the 4 Winds and Pre-Diamond. I may move into Diamond and change some of the results. Lotus holds very little of my interest. Perhaps if it had been Dark Lotus. Or, if Lotus would have been an age of major religious upheaval because of the "enlightenment". I can usually find some kernel of the storyline that I can build on and include in my game.

I run my game pre-coup, or x decades in the future. I do however do most of my online RP / in character stuff in the current time frame.

I like most of the fictions for the current timeline (except the one in which Naseru was a dumb bunny and decided to go into the Shadowlands alone), but I mostly GM the eras of the Steel Crysanthemum or Clan War. I think I will eventually run a Gold campaign at some point, but like the other posters too much has happened for the current eras (Gold+) to be initially stable. If one wanted to be realistic, the Empire and the Clans should be decimated from the constant pestilence and warfare that has occured. Though I do admit I have had fun playing in a Lotus game in which the entire Lotus arc is similar to canon events, but has been twisted and sometimes flat out ignored.

If you ignore the part about Tamori Chosai and Isawa Hochiu making a deal with the Dark Oracle, Gold really makes for some great stuff. I found plenty of places to stick my PCs into the action, sometimes letting them accomplish the task that canon has others doing. If you are willing to play around with the story, I think you might be surprised with what you can come up with.

Pre-Coup and Battle of White Stag eras ftw ^_^ Emphasizing the hell out of the paranoia and xenophobia of Rokugan is the funnest part of running a White Stag era campaign.

Yeah, there is lots of war. But it's not as vicious as you'd think. They treat their foes generally honorably, they don't burn entire villages to the ground, etc. So who dies? A couple hundred bushi? And the battles generally happen on the front lines, not all over a nation. It's not like every spring the Lion mobilizes 150,000 people to invade enemies.

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