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Woke Rokugan Supplement Prohibits Seppuku
Persimmon:
Was skimming through drive-thru today and noticed that Edge studios has recently released a Rokugan supplement for 5e. For those of you that don't know, Rokugan is the setting for the samurai-inspired Legend of Five Rings game. Back in the 3e days, Rokugan also briefly served as the default setting for [trigger warning] "Oriental Adventures" and they published a variety of supplements for both D&D and L5R.
The most recent iteration of L5R, by Fantasy Flight, was ridiculously woke, with hilariously insipid sidebars about cultural sensitivity, trigger warnings about depictions of heterosexuality and the like. But Edge has apparently one-upped them by actually "prohibiting seppuku aka hara-kiri, or ritual suicide, in a game ostensibly grounded in samurai culture! This is like prohibiting church in a setting based on Puritan New England. I didn't buy the product since I have no interest in 5e, but it was amusing to see the debates about this prohibition in the reviews/discussion section.
Ahh, when will the snowflakes stop?
I HATE THE DEMIURGE I HATE THE DEMIURGE
BANNED:
They won't. So long as it remains profitable to cater to them, they won't stop.
Also, why the fuck would anybody play L5R in 5E? That's the epitome of retardation. Form follows function, or I suppose it should be updates that the setting is intrinsically tied to the mechanics and vice versa. It's like using a microscope as a hammer - yeah you could, but why. The real moral of the story is that people should CONSOOM less and make their own shit for their gaming groups. Social media was a mistake.
Effete:
Well, the woke want games to be accessible to the mentally ill, and a substantial portion of the mentally ill are at high-risk for suicide, so of course they would erase a significant mark of honor-culture to appeal to fragile feefees.
Hzilong:
Very well. I suppose I must now kill my dishonored characters through the redeeming act of sudoku.
weirdguy564:
If anybody is looking for samurai games may I suggest these two.
Sengoku. It’s got a lot of it’s pages devoted to learning how Japanese culture worked, even going so far as to have a chapter about architecture, like tatami mats and how ceilings are made. I believe the system is the Fuzion system. There are a lot of stats.
Another game is Shinobi and Samurai. This game is much lighter on content. It is also OSR and is a D&D style of rules. It’s more conventional to play, but lacks almost any setting info, including Japanese medieval culture and terminology.
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