General Questions

[Vutall]

They are not transferable. They are effectively a retroactive raise on the roll that was made.

[Kaito Haruki]

Since kaiu engineer has the bushi tag, does that mean aiichiro will have to iaijutsu and not debate?

[Miya Wyn]

And extending that question, do Duel Tag Schools Shugenha/Courtier, Courtier/Artisan, Bushi/Artisan, Bushi/Courtier excetera
On the Court, Theology, and Iajitsu comptitions where it is 1 Skill for All and a different skill for (individual Tag) do duel tags PICK their tag, or are the forced into the individual tag one. So Bushi/Courtiers must do Tea Ceremony AND Iajitsu as an example?

[Doji Sakura]

Each round, a player may either roll Courtier or Etiquette on their turn, but not both.

A player who succeeds in a Courtier/Awareness TN 15 check gains +1 Persuasion point. Additional raises gain extra Persuasion points. Free raises from the Exceptional Roll rule may be used to either gain +1 Persuasion point per raise, or increase the final total of this roll by 5 per raise which does not grant additional Persuasion points, but makes it harder for an opponents Etiquette roll.

A player may only roll Etiquette/Awareness if their opponent has Persuasion points. This is a contested roll against the opponents last Courtier roll. If they succeed, the player who rolled Courtier looses all Persuasion points from the previous Courtier roll.

Each player must attempt at least one Courtier roll.

The player who made the first roll will get a 4th round in which they may only attempt an Etiquette roll.

Questions:
1) Is the choice of roll done in order of Init?
2) Does the second player choose theirs after the opponent has rolled?

[Vutall]

For topaz,Any Bushi tag MUST do the Iaijutsu tournament, any Shunenja tag MUST do the Taryu-Jiai tournament. If a school is tagged as both, Shugenja overrides bushi.

The EXCEPTION to the above is a Shinobi, they may enter any.

Courtier and Monk tags are defaulted to debate, but IF they have the Iaijutsu skill, they can do the Iaijutsu tournament.

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For Part 1, dual tagged schools pick what part of the event they wish to do and get that reward, locked out of the other.

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Yes, the Courtier debates will act on an initiative system.

Player 1 has a higher init, so they go first.

Player 1 cannot choose etiquette, since player 2 has no points, so they must roll courtier.

Player 2 on their turn then rolls their choice of either etiquette, to negate player 1s points from round 1, or courtier, to earn their own points.

round 2
player 1 chooses either courtier to earn their own points, or if player 2 picked courtier, may choose etiquette to negate plays 2s points from round 1.

[Doji Sakura]

How long does the mask spirit counter last? Does it carry over into future games?

[Vutall]

Nope, resets per game

[Kaito Haruki]

Cool thing you can do for defense rolls in orokos, you can use operators to add,subtract,divide, and multiply in the distance code itself. So if you do your regular full defense dice pool and add a / to the end of the expression, it will automatically divide for you

[Iuchi Prashant]

For topaz,Any Bushi tag MUST do the Iaijutsu tournament, any Shunenja tag MUST do the Taryu-Jiai tournament. If a school is tagged as both, Shugenja overrides bushi.

The EXCEPTION to the above is a Shinobi, they may enter any.

Courtier and Monk tags are defaulted to debate, but IF they have the Iaijutsu skill, they can do the Iaijutsu tournament.

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For Part 1, dual tagged schools pick what part of the event they wish to do and get that reward, locked out of the other.

Just to double check how that applies to Meishodo Masters, especially as they cannot participate in Taryu-Jiai duels:

Being Shugenja/ Artisan but being unable to participate in Taryu-Jiai, iirc from your answers on Discord Meisho shuggies would probably default to the debate, right? Considering a Meisho shuggie has ranks in Iajutsu, she could CHOOSE between the iajutsu tournament or the debates, is that it? Or would she HAVE to go with Iai if she has the skill?

Also, for part 1 given your answer now: in the Divination event, would a Meisho shuggie (Shugenja/Artisan) HAVE to go with Divination (needing a Courtier roll to go with Theology instead), or could she choose between both without a Courtier roll (due to the dual Tag)?

That actually brings me to another question - does the lv 3 bonus for schools with the Artisan tag apply for dual tag schools such as the Meishodo Master? And does that also apply for other dual tag schools? (Giving, say, attacks as Simple Action and lower crafting times for a Kaiu Engineer for instance)?

Thanks and sorry for being dumb V

[Vutall]

Meishodo Masters have to have 1 rank in a non-meishodo spellcasting school to participate in Taryu-Jiai. So you would default to the court debated, but if you have Iaijutsu, could do that instead in part 2

For Part 1, on events that have different rewards, you choose one or the other. It will be clear when those events come up.

For rank 3, if you have multiple tags, you choose which rank 3 benefit you want, essentially locking you out from the other.

[Iuchi Prashant]

Meishodo Masters have to have 1 rank in a non-meishodo spellcasting school to participate in Taryu-Jiai. So you would default to the court debated, but if you have Iaijutsu, could do that instead in part 2

For Part 1, on events that have different rewards, you choose one or the other. It will be clear when those events come up.

For rank 3, if you have multiple tags, you choose which rank 3 benefit you want, essentially locking you out from the other.

Understood! Thanks!

[Asako Saburo]

A little early, but...

For the Spirituality Test on D6, can a shugenja character convince Asako Himeya to permit them to conduct the Lore: Theology version of the test instead of the Divination? I know that non-Shugenja can convince her to do the divination version. Wanted to check if the reverse was true.

[Vutall]

Yup, just gotta follow the rules posted there.

Dual tagged shugenja schools get to choose without having to make the courtier roll.

[Mai]

Can we justify raising one of the courtier skills (Courtier, Etiquette, and Sincerity) by studying in the library? I would assume there would be some sort of court treatises

[Vutall]

Yup.

[Mai]

One more. Can I use XP to increase a School Skill that I took in Part 1 character creation?

[Vutall]

At the end of days 3, 6, and 9, you will gain 2XP.

You may either save the XP, or spend it on Skills or Emphasises. You may not raise a skill above 2. You may only select skills or emphasises that you have had on screen training in, either from an event or from one of your own threads. To represent the training, you will need at least one timeslot showing a use of the skill or emphasis.

XP expenditure takes effect the next Game Day. For example, if you spent 2 xp for the Yumi emphasis on game day 4, it would not take effect until game day 5.

If you spend XP you earn at the end of game days 3, 6, or 9 within 24 real life hours of being awarded the XP, it will take effect on game day 4, 7, or 10.

When spending XP, please make a note in your Personal Forum along with a link to a thread where the training took place.

[Mai]

Ah. Thanks. I swore I saw somewhere that we couldn't use XP to learn the School Skills we didn't pick, but guess I was wrong. Thanks again.

[Iuchi Prashant]

I think part of this has been asked before on Discord, but I cannot find it and it may be a doubt others have too, so here goes.

1) When exactly are/ were characters informed of the training activities of future days? For instance - would characters already know now (Day 5) that they will have activities related to Iaijutsu and Games on day 10? And would the characters already have a general idea of what they might expect from said training sessions, or just their name?

2) Considering we do have an idea that we will have a lesson on, say, Games on day 10 - could we look for a sensei to practice or at least hear about different types of games even without having them as an ally? (I mean this as justification for spending XP, as of course we wouldn't get any free skills without the ally).

Thanks again! : )

[Vutall]

You as a character have no idea the schedule, there is not a list published to the students.

You can absolutely use books/scrolls, sensei, or threads with other characters as justification for an xp expenditure.