L5R Campaign

The game will begin at the Topaz Championship in the 1118th year of Isawa's Calendar - the official start of the First Edition campaign. It will progress through each of the published adventures, and some of my own material, up through the Clan War. The characters will likely

Up to seven players will be permitted. One from each of the following:

• Crab Clan
• Crane Clan
• Dragon Clan
• Imperial Families - Only if I know I have seven, good, reliable players in on this.
• Lion Clan
• Phoenix Clan
• Unicorn Clan

Character Creation

Characters will be 'Gestalt' characters, after a fashion. That is, you select -two- schools (both within the your clan), instead of one, and you raise ranks in each as you gain the appropriate insight. Thus, you begin with both school's starting skills, both school's rank 1 techniques, gain their rank 2 techniques at 150 insight, and so on. Paths and advanced schools will need to be considered individually. You may not pick two schools of the same 'type', that is, two shugenja schools, two bushi schools, two monk schools, two courtier schools, two magistrate schools, two ninja schools, or two 'other' schools. You may otherwise mix and match freely - including bushi and shugenja.

• Characters begin with a base of 60 character points.
• A maximum of five character points worth of disadvantages may be taken.
• Characters begin with two additional ranks that they may assign to any trait. No trait can be raised more than twice through this bonus and the bonuses granted by families and schools.
• Characters begin with one additional skill rank of their choice (normally bringing the total to fifteen, including the seven from each school). These, along with their normal starting school ranks, may not raise a skill above 3.
• No trait or skill may be raised higher than 5 at character creation.
• Feel free to ask for additional or better equipment for starting.