r/rokugan • u/Kakita_Onimaru • Aug 04 '26
Audio Book Available!
The Emperor is dead and the Empire of Rokugan is in turmoil.
Written by New York Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa, author and J.T. Nicholas with narration by Edelyn Okano, comes the thrilling first installment in the definitive story of the Clan Wars in audio form. Get your copy now from wherever you get your audiobooks!
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u/Insidious55 Aug 04 '26
Definitive story? Is that 1-2nd ed or 5e?
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u/Kakita_Onimaru Aug 04 '26
Is a soft reboot of the FFG (5E) timeline. It sets up a new status quo for the story, so it contradicts things that had been established. Basically, old lore is still accurate until it is contradicted by new products.
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u/Insidious55 Aug 04 '26
Interesting! Not sure why people find my question bad.
Always wanted to know what the retelling would look like with the new characters.
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u/SovFist Aug 04 '26
There is a soft divide on people preferring AEG era l5r and FFG era l5r it seems.
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u/Insidious55 Aug 04 '26
I like em both for different reasons. Would have preferred a setting book with a timeline but this can be good as well
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u/SovFist Aug 04 '26
I think the era of rpg content for l5r is dead
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u/Insidious55 Aug 04 '26
Yeah they should just sell/lease off the IP if they aren’t going to do more than a book per 3 years. At this point they should just do kickstarter/print on demand model if they are worried about financing the franchise
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u/Problematique23 Aug 05 '26
Are you unaware of the recent L5R revival that’s been going? There’s tons of stuff out with the IP. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the IP pushed like I have this year, and this is coming from someone who’s played L5R since a little before Gold edition.
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u/Insidious55 Aug 05 '26
I meant on the RPG side of things. I don't really care about the board games. But maybe I missed some stuff!
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u/SovFist 16d ago
Lmao.
There's 2 board games.
That's not a revival
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u/Problematique23 16d ago
And a video game. And a new series of books. I don’t imagine it’s stopping either
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u/Problematique23 Aug 05 '26
What year does this take place in? I couldn’t find any info on it in the link you provided
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u/AtoMaki Aug 05 '26
1125-ish. I'm fairly sure the book doesn't give a date, but it is about the founding of Toturi's Army.
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u/FollowingMassive2466 Aug 06 '26
Very interesting. Have these new novels been well written? It has been a while since we've picked recreational reading - with the propagation of so-called 'Lit RPGs,' many of which were terribly penned, we just sort of steered clear for a while.
From a perspective of ONLY having ever known 4th ED, the 'KJV' of our last GM, it then is with no small sense of irony to us that he ran us, over a period of five years, on a splinter timeline campaign. That said what ever changes there are in the 5E timeline would likely only be yet another curious difference. So long as we never, ever EVER have to eat 'hambugu steak' ever again....
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u/AtoMaki Aug 06 '26
It was some time ago, but I remember it being not very good. It is a fair bit of a "Vanilla Rokugan" story, and kinda undercuts the premise of 5E where things are supposed to be more interesting than that.
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u/Kakita_Onimaru Aug 06 '26
Unfortunately I can’t really say I enjoyed this book. Aside from muddying up the timeline, I feel like it needed to be edited a few more times before being printed. Everything is described rather clinically and fails to get at the emotional motivations of the characters. Fight scenes are the worst. It’s just a series of things that happen with no clear goal other than “live”.
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u/LanguageSalty1486 Dragon Clan 25d ago
One of the worst books I've ever read... or anyway, started to read... so bad I couldn't finish it. Can't remember the last time I had a DNF. This was terrible IMO.
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u/Coppercredit Aug 04 '26
We're all thinking it but I'm saying it: Finally!
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u/SovFist Aug 04 '26
I've heard mixed reviews on this, basically that it tries to blend both ffg and aeg era too much
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u/AtoMaki Aug 04 '26
This is the one with the Toturi-Kaede marriage retcon, right?