Out Of Character Chat 1, Planning and Pre-game

[Vutall]

Fully revealed the mechanics for the Athletics and Hand to Hand events.

[Yasuki Ginkarasu]

Nice!

Do we know how the ally/further training thing will work?

[Utaku Ichiro]

Ooooh looking forward to those.

[Utaku Ichiro]

The pricing of gems question really got me thinking about how the price of a finger of jade throws the whole economy out of whack. Most times in the setting's history it's described as one of the rarest resources yet being priced at a single koku flies completely in the face of this.

'Oh this rare stone that can save your soul? Guess I'll sell it to you at the same cost as this tanto....'

Makes you wonder if some Emperor somewhen decreed a 'Jade Standard' that's been stuck on Imperial books since.

[Kakita Kenji]

i guess most comes down to in-game balancing. Of youre we could say a finger of Jade is equal to a ryu, cause well it can save your soul, but thats bad in terms of gameplay, cause no normal samurai would have that amount of money.

[Vutall]

The pricing of gems question really got me thinking about how the price of a finger of jade throws the whole economy out of whack. Most times in the setting's history it's described as one of the rarest resources yet being priced at a single koku flies completely in the face of this.

'Oh this rare stone that can save your soul? Guess I'll sell it to you at the same cost as this tanto....'

Makes you wonder if some Emperor somewhen decreed a 'Jade Standard' that's been stuck on Imperial books since.

Honestly, the crafting rules and the pricing rules are both terrible if you try to make sense of them. Sakura and I worked out crafting to be a bit better without completely reworking things, but if I really wanted to (I don't) I should rework it all.

[Doji Sakura]

We banged our heads together for hours on crafting. It's a mess, a horrible painful mess of awful things that isn't fit for purpose and should never have gone through into 4th ed. It needs a complete rework from the ground up, and that's an insane amount of work for a niche part of the system

[Kaito Haruki]

The reason a finger of jade costs 1 koku in 4e is because we found another source of jade that made it a lot more common; I think it was common in the Ivory Kingdoms which then became Rokugan's colony which is part of 4e's setting and mechanics. That and the deal that made the Spider clan a thing made the taint something that didn't spread unless you wanted it?

[Kokyou]

Subject: General Questions

Nice!

Do we know how the ally/further training thing will work?

When you earn a temporary Sensei ally, you will gain the ability to have a special 1 on 1 class with them during a timeslot that will grant you either +1 to a skill or an emphasis that the Sensei knows.

*checks all the pretty sensei-chans to have 1:1's with*

[Kokyou]

Doburu Postu Edition!

FOUND ONE!
Bushi Sensei - Utaku Oichi, a beautiful Battle Maiden

... Damn I gotta learn horsemanship to impress.

[Utaku Ichiro]

To help or to sabotage....

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

To help or to sabotage....

The former will avail nothing.
The latter will be unnecessary.
The whole thing, however, will likely amuse.

[Doji Sakura]

Time to give a Mantis phobia: horses forever

[Soshi Shiso]

We banged our heads together for hours on crafting. It's a mess, a horrible painful mess of awful things that isn't fit for purpose and should never have gone through into 4th ed. It needs a complete rework from the ground up, and that's an insane amount of work for a niche part of the system

You initially had my attention, then it drifted.

*awaits a bop*

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

*awaits a bop*

*obliges*

*bops*

[Vutall]

*checks all the pretty sensei-chans to have 1:1's with*

I wont be making separate accounts for any of the NPCs here, so no pictures sadly

[Kokyou]

*is creative*

[Doji Sakura]

You initially had my attention, then it drifted.

*awaits a bop*

Soshi-chan likes banging?

Want to go to a forge together?

[Kokyou]

Soshi-chan likes banging?

Want to go to a forge together?

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

Already planning on getting hammered?