92. Legend of Five Rings Rings Part 1

One Shot

James D'Amato

Games, Comedy, Leisure

4.8 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2015

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the great war Rokugon is enjoying a fragile peace between the clans. It may be short lived as strife is building on the border of the Crab and Spider. Their lands are separated by a great river which has just shifted its path. Now the Spiders claim their territory has grown and the Crab insist the land belongs to them regardless of the river's whim. The Empress has sent a representative from the dragon clan to act as a mediator and resolve the issue without bloodshed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are adventurers. We've been to every place anywhere in the world. We are
0:06.6	venturing. We are adventurers.
0:10.0	Hello heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot.
0:14.0	I'm James Damato, your Game Master.
0:17.0	After taking a first look at so many great upcoming games,
0:21.0	I figured it was time to return to some of the classics.
0:24.0	That's why this week on one shot will be featuring Legend of Five Rings fourth edition.
0:29.0	Many of you might know L5R from the trading card game, but there's also a role-playing system and it is really good
0:36.8	For those who don't know anything about L5R at all
0:39.5	It's set in a world called Roku-, which is very similar to feudal Japan, especially culturally.
0:46.8	The obligation samurai have to upholding the Bushido code is a strong theme in any
0:52.3	L5R game.
0:54.0	The rules do a great job of underscoring and increasing the tension you'd find in a lot of
0:59.2	samurai fiction.
1:00.8	It's a great game for tense political drama and edge of your seat lethal combat.
1:07.0	L5R was one of the few role-playing systems that's considered a classic that I hadn't gotten my hands on yet.
1:13.6	And I wanted to be sure that we recreated the experience of L5R faithfully.
1:18.7	So I'll say this.
1:20.0	The game that we played is much more dramatic than your usual one-shot stories.
1:25.0	I can assure you that the tension in this story builds to an unbelievably edge of your seat conclusion.
1:31.0	To accomplish that, it was a lot more serious than most of our games. So if you're
1:35.9	looking for silly jokes and you two puns, this is perhaps not the recording for you. But if you'd like to see me stretch my genre muscle, then by all means
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