r/rokugan

Wondering if anyone has ever attempted to convert the Feast mini-game from Chaosium's Pendragon rpg into one appropriate for the Rokugan setting?

For those unfamiliar with Pendragon, during a Feast mini-game, the players can choose a variety of base activities (Flirting, Gaming, Indulge, Intrigue) each with their own consequences and rewards, or to risk greater rewards/problems by choosing to Draw a feast card. The cards are usually the highlight of the mini-game, as they introduce some wild events and great opportunities for RP. Some examples include "A Test of Strength" in which an NPC knight challenges one of the PCs to a contest or "A Love Poem" in which an NPC knight is trying (and failing) to compose for his lady and asks one of the PCs to help him out.

Obviously there are large differences between medieval European and Japanese feasts, but a bit of research opened up some interesting possibilities:

- Feasts began with Honzen Ryori which was a formal, structured, strict part of the feast. Sedate compared to the stereotypical European version. During this section, the shikisankon, a formal three rounds of drinks were served.

- Following the drinks, the host would announce bureiko or a time in which formal social rank was broken or ignored. This allowed samurai to be loud drunks with each other without fear of political issues. This usually devolved over the course of the night and ended up with a lot of loud entertainment like poetry battles, impromptu plays where samurai acted out the various parts in well known stories, etc.

In the Pendragon version of feasts, players can gain or lose Honor or Glory based on their activities during the mini-game. This seems just as appropriate for a L5R version.

Has anyone attempted this before? Thoughts? I've noticed a number of the published L5R adventures, including the Tournament of the Topaz Champion and Murder at Kyotei Castle feature a feast scene, but the adventure just basically says "the characters have a feast here and this happens", and leave it at that.

Thanks for any opinions or advice!

When cribbing the affiliations for the custom school do I list them in historical context.

I.E. the Sparrow school affiliations would be Crane, Sparrow, Three Man Alliance, and Minor Clan Alliance depending on era. The Hida Pragmatist would be Crab, Badger, Scorpion(all hail the pinche alliance), and Boar.

Or is it just fluff?

After a long break, I realized the unicorn book has been translated and is now available in my country.

I am wondering if the book has anything exciting and is worth buying it.

I'm asking because I don't see a lot of reviews to be honest.

Hey all, I'm a fan of the Wolf Clan that was created as homebrew for the 4th Edition, and am attempting to adapt it for 5e, while offering a bit of my own twist on it. I have ideas for the family, but creating a homebrew school is a bit more involved, so I was looking for some advice. I was thinking I would use the Matsu Berserker school as a basis and combining it somehow with the Kitsu Medium school, to create a bushi/shugenja school in which warriors allow themselves to be possessed by the spirit of a wolf in order to fight with even greater ferocity.

Thinking about trying to convert the old 1e Ancestor Doji Suzume ability of Rolling one more die on a lore/social/oratory skill check but the gm rolls a secret die on a 1 or a 10 the characters remarks will be interpreted in a way directly opposite to their intent (for example, a witty remark might lead to your expulsion from your clan). To make matters worse, at least half of the listeners will usually find the unintended meaning of the character's words extraordinarily brilliant. Either as the primary school ability(dinking around with the custom school creation rules for funsies) or as a passion/ anxiety hybrid.

Making it a school ability maintains the long tradition of the Sparrow Clan being delightfully bad.

As a passion anxiety thing i would just homebrew a rule that if you pick the passion you default to the anxiety.

Hello! I've been writing a blog on L5R 4e since earlier this year, focusing on new mechanics I've been using in my own games. My new blog post is about what the title says, removing all Bushi techniques that give Simple Action Attacks.

The link is: https://jadecrows.blogspot.com/2026/06/altered-combat-stances-and-maneuvers.html