Legend of the Five Rings
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Legend of the Five Rings (often abbreviated L5R) is a fictional setting created by the John Wick
and published by Alderac Entertainment Group
in 1995. The setting primarily involves the fictional country of Rokugan
, though some additional areas and cultures have been discussed. Rokugan is based roughly on feudal Japan
with influences from other East Asia
n cultures. This setting is the basis for the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game as well as the Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game. Legend of the Five Rings was also the "featured campaign setting" of the Oriental Adventures
expansion to the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons
, though this book is now out of print.
The deep, evolving story of Legend of the Five Rings is one of the features that sets it apart from most game settings. Players of the collectible card game
, and to a lesser extent the role-playing game
, can influence this story as it progresses by participating in sanctioned tournaments. The winners of major tournaments make pivotal decisions that can influence the storyline for years to come, with winners of minor tournaments influencing the storyline in lesser ways.
Legend of the Five Rings has broken new ground in player interaction in hobby gaming with the Race for the Throne. This mega-event took place over 2007 and 2008, where players of both the collectible card game and the role-playing game could affect the storyline of their Clan by earning points in various Spheres of influence.
In the game's tournaments players can affect the storyline of the game, their deck construction directly contributing to the lives (or deaths) of the characters involved. This is in turn reflected in future expansions of the game, and the mechanics of the cards therein. The full current rules of the collectible card game can be found at the Comprehensive Rules Site.
and the European Championships, allowing them to skip the qualifying rounds.
shout during tournaments. To fire up the players before the rounds begin, the tournament organizer, special guest, or a selected player gives a short rousing speech restating what the players are fighting for in the storyline, followed the shout of "Utz!" followed by the player's response "Banzai!" three times. This is in homage to traditional samurai battle cries.
that requires one person to be game master and any number of other people to play different characters. As with all role-playing games, there is no "winner" or "loser", and the players do not generally compete against each other. Instead, the players work together to find a solution to some problem which the game master has presented their characters. What separated Legend of the Five Rings from other role-playing games was that players could either follow the traditional RPG style of hack/slash adventure or play as courtiers and take part in a campaign in which they never enter a single battle.
The Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game is currently in its fourth version. All four versions used an original ruleset designed specifically for the setting. The rulesets are all very similar, allowing active games to transition relatively easily between them. To distinguish this game system from the d20 System
mechanics (see below), it is often referred to as the d10, "classic", or the "Roll & Keep" ("R&K") system.
. Heroes of Rokugan, a fan-run group organizes yearly LARPs as part of their own storyline.
produced by AEG, whose story line is derived from the Legend of the Five Rings setting. This game itself is no longer produced but the loyal fandom has a strong presence in its continued existence. The metal miniatures used to play the game are being re-released by Valiant Miniatures in 2010.
A L5R Board Game has been in the works for several years, and despite delays and release pushbacks, AEG had said the game would be released in 2009. It was not released in 2009 and
designer Dan Versen, claiming it was "L5R meets Axis and Allies" cited the increase above quoted prices by printers and model makers as the reason for delay and that he has his, "Fingers crossed for 2011!"
"War of Honor"
A second "Board Game" for L5R is slated for release during the summer/fall of 2011. This Game Mixes elements of the CCG and a board game layout to give an old school Multi-player CCG feel. More can bee read about it in the AEG forums here.
"Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan"
In Fall 2011, AEG released a boardgame featuring a conflict between a Scorpion ninja infiltrating a Lion estate to carry out a secret mission. Designed as an experience to take less than an hour, it includes dozens of plastic miniatures and revolves around hidden movement.
The Four Winds Saga
with influences from other East Asia
n cultures, where samurai
, shugenja
, and trained courtiers vie for control of the noble courts. Rokugan itself is home to mostly humans, divided into a society based on clans, with eight Great Clans and various minor ones, though at the moment they are all in confusion, and are vying for one of their members to be the new Emperor. They are regularly threatened by evil plots from within, but the main threat still lies to the southwest of Rokugan: the deadly wastes of the Shadowlands, where demonic hordes roam.
The world of L5R, which contains Rokugan, also contains the nations of the Burning Sands
as well as the Ivory Kingdoms. A few foreign visitors from these lands have been featured in Legend of the Five Rings, but have not played a major role in the storyline. Much is unknown of these lands, mostly due to the extreme xenophobia of the Rokugani, shown in the story by an Imperial mandate of non-interaction with Gaijin
.
In 1997, FRPG was purchased by Wizards of the Coast
. The existing licenses remained in place, so the same creative team continued work on Legend of the Five Rings, AEG continued publishing the RPG, and Wizards began publishing the card game. In 1999, Legend of the Five Rings changed hands once more when Wizards was purchased by toy-making giant Hasbro
(however, "Wizards" continued operations under their original name). The previous licenses were still in effect, so changes to the games and the development teams as a result were unnoticeable. Wizards of the Coast re-released Oriental Adventures
(a long out-of-print AD&D supplement), changing the setting from the original Kara-Tur
to Rokugan, and updating the supplement to the d20
rules. Several of the following sourcebooks provided dual (d20 & d10/R&K) rulesets.
In late 2000, however, speculation about the future of Legend of the Five Rings – especially the RPG – began to run rampant after Hasbro, during a string of decisions that greatly upset the leadership at Wizards, decided to sell Legend of the Five Rings two years before AEG's long-standing license was due to expire. Any fears turned out to be unfounded when, less than half a year later, AEG won the bidding war for Legend of the Five Rings.
Today, AEG owns the intellectual property of Legend of the Five Rings and still designs and publishes the card game and the role-playing game. AEG released Lotus Edition for the CCG in late 2005, beginning the Age of Enlightenment story arc. The new Samurai Edition was released in July 2007, and includes the Race for the Throne story arc. Celestial Edition is scheduled for mid-2009 and will usher in a new storyline for players to take part in.
The previous lead was Rich Wulf, assisted by Shawn Carman. Wulf's works include Way of the Wolf, Bells of the Dead, Rokugan, and many other Legend of the Five Rings products. Large contributions to the Legend of the Five Rings series were also made by Ree Soesbee, who was lead writer of Legend of the Five Rings prior to Rich Wulf, and John Wick before her who along with the founding members of Five Rings Publishing Group created the world. While the property was controlled by Wizards of the Coast, the creation of the Four Winds arc (starting with Gold Edition) was helmed by Paul Allen Timm and Rob Heinsoo with contributions from Andy Heckt and Frank Chafe.
Currently, Shawn Carman is the head of the Legend of the Five Rings Story Team. He has had great success at incorporating player effects into the game in a smooth manner, regardless of how odd the results of a tournament may be to the setting of the game. His team includes Rusty Priske, Nancy Sauer, Brian Yoon, Yoon Ha Lee, and Robert Denton with Fred Wan acting as co-lead and continuity editor. The team formerly included Lucas Twyman, who left the team in July of 2011.
The only way to completely resolve the issue was to quit using the symbol. For the role-playing game this meant very little, but for the collectible card game it meant that the backing of the cards had to be redesigned, which left players with a mix of cards that essentially resulted in marked decks. In an attempt to appease the players, Wizards released the first set with the different backs – Spirit Wars – bundled with opaque sleeves that would obscure the designs on the backs of the cards, allowing players to use any mix of cards in their decks.
See also Legend of the Five Rings (disambiguation)
for other articles which share this name.
John Wick
John Wick is a 20th and 21st century role-playing game designer best known for his creative contributions to the Alderac Entertainment Group properties Legend of the Five Rings and 7th Sea. He self-published Orkworld under the Wicked Press banner, and later co-founded the Wicked Dead Brewing...
and published by Alderac Entertainment Group
Alderac Entertainment Group
Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California...
in 1995. The setting primarily involves the fictional country of Rokugan
Rokugan
Rokugan is the fictional empire which is the main power in the Legend of the Five Rings setting, the basis for the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game, Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game, the board game Art of War and the now out of print Clan War Miniatures game, all from...
, though some additional areas and cultures have been discussed. Rokugan is based roughly on feudal Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
with influences from other East Asia
East Asia
East Asia or Eastern Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms...
n cultures. This setting is the basis for the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game as well as the Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game. Legend of the Five Rings was also the "featured campaign setting" of the Oriental Adventures
Oriental Adventures
Oriental Adventures is the title shared by two hardback rulebooks published for different versions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
expansion to the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
, though this book is now out of print.
The deep, evolving story of Legend of the Five Rings is one of the features that sets it apart from most game settings. Players of the collectible card game
Collectible card game
thumb|Players and their decksA collectible card game , also called a trading card game or customizable card game, is a game played using specially designed sets of playing cards...
, and to a lesser extent the role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
, can influence this story as it progresses by participating in sanctioned tournaments. The winners of major tournaments make pivotal decisions that can influence the storyline for years to come, with winners of minor tournaments influencing the storyline in lesser ways.
Legend of the Five Rings has broken new ground in player interaction in hobby gaming with the Race for the Throne. This mega-event took place over 2007 and 2008, where players of both the collectible card game and the role-playing game could affect the storyline of their Clan by earning points in various Spheres of influence.
The Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game
The Legend of the Five Rings collectible card game is played by two or more players (in tournaments, generally two), each with two decks of at least 40 cards each (formerly at least 30 cards each). The game continues until a player has reached one of several different victory conditions, at which point that player is declared the winner. Victory conditions include winning militarily (destroying all provinces of one's opponent), by honour (reaching a certain number of honour points), dishonour (forcing one's opponent under a certain honour point threshold), through enlightenment (by putting cards called rings into play) or via a couple of special cards which essentially mean "game won".In the game's tournaments players can affect the storyline of the game, their deck construction directly contributing to the lives (or deaths) of the characters involved. This is in turn reflected in future expansions of the game, and the mechanics of the cards therein. The full current rules of the collectible card game can be found at the Comprehensive Rules Site.
Kotei Season
The Kotei Season runs generally February through June of each year, where regional tournaments occur around the world. Each season incorporates a major event currently going on in the Emerald Empire, with each event determining at least one factor of the larger story. Kotei winners are pre-qualified into major events such as Gen ConGen Con
Gen Con is one of the largest and most prominent annual gaming conventions in North America. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card-style games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, board games, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, non-collectible...
and the European Championships, allowing them to skip the qualifying rounds.
Race for the Throne
The Race for the Throne is L5R's new "mega-game" where players from all the various Clans compete across various "spheres", to earn points for their Clans. These points are earned by tournament wins, charitable work, online contests and many other methods. In November 2008, the Dragon Clan won the Race for the Throne, with Kitsuki Iweko ascending to become Empress Iweko I.Current Promotions
Legend of the Five Rings currently supports the Dojo Days store program. This program allows stores to receive benefits based on the number of Imperial Assembly registered players at their store. The players are also rewarded for bringing in new players as part of their Clan. These stores are also able to qualify to host official Storyline Events should their dedicated player base grow to 30 or more players.Player-Influenced Cards
Legend of the Five Rings has many cards that are directly influenced by players and their actions. These cards often feature an attribution on the vertical right side of the card, which includes the name of the player, the event, and the date involved in the creation of the card or theme behind the card. Having your name on a card is a goal of many players of Legend of the Five Rings.Banzai
A long running tradition in the L5R CCG is the BanzaiTen thousand years
The use of the phrase "ten thousand years" in various East Asian languages originated in ancient China as an expression used to wish long life to the Emperor, and is typically translated as "long live" in English...
shout during tournaments. To fire up the players before the rounds begin, the tournament organizer, special guest, or a selected player gives a short rousing speech restating what the players are fighting for in the storyline, followed the shout of "Utz!" followed by the player's response "Banzai!" three times. This is in homage to traditional samurai battle cries.
Translations
The L5R CCG is currently published in English, French, and Spanish. Previously the game was also published in German and PolishThe Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game
The Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game is a role-playing gameRole-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
that requires one person to be game master and any number of other people to play different characters. As with all role-playing games, there is no "winner" or "loser", and the players do not generally compete against each other. Instead, the players work together to find a solution to some problem which the game master has presented their characters. What separated Legend of the Five Rings from other role-playing games was that players could either follow the traditional RPG style of hack/slash adventure or play as courtiers and take part in a campaign in which they never enter a single battle.
The Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game is currently in its fourth version. All four versions used an original ruleset designed specifically for the setting. The rulesets are all very similar, allowing active games to transition relatively easily between them. To distinguish this game system from the d20 System
D20 System
The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
mechanics (see below), it is often referred to as the d10, "classic", or the "Roll & Keep" ("R&K") system.
Live-Action Roleplaying
In 2004 a Live-action roleplay version of the game was released. Live-Action roleplaying has long been a major part of Legend of the Five Rings at events such as Gen ConGen Con
Gen Con is one of the largest and most prominent annual gaming conventions in North America. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card-style games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, board games, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, non-collectible...
. Heroes of Rokugan, a fan-run group organizes yearly LARPs as part of their own storyline.
Death at Koten
Death at Koten is the first L5R Graphic Novel, released in May 2009. It revolves around the death of Hida Kisada and the events that take place as a result of his assassination.Clan War
Clan War was a miniature based model strategy gameStrategy game
A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...
produced by AEG, whose story line is derived from the Legend of the Five Rings setting. This game itself is no longer produced but the loyal fandom has a strong presence in its continued existence. The metal miniatures used to play the game are being re-released by Valiant Miniatures in 2010.
Board Games
"Art of War"A L5R Board Game has been in the works for several years, and despite delays and release pushbacks, AEG had said the game would be released in 2009. It was not released in 2009 and
designer Dan Versen, claiming it was "L5R meets Axis and Allies" cited the increase above quoted prices by printers and model makers as the reason for delay and that he has his, "Fingers crossed for 2011!"
"War of Honor"
A second "Board Game" for L5R is slated for release during the summer/fall of 2011. This Game Mixes elements of the CCG and a board game layout to give an old school Multi-player CCG feel. More can bee read about it in the AEG forums here.
"Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan"
In Fall 2011, AEG released a boardgame featuring a conflict between a Scorpion ninja infiltrating a Lion estate to carry out a secret mission. Designed as an experience to take less than an hour, it includes dozens of plastic miniatures and revolves around hidden movement.
Novels
- Clan War - First Scroll: The Scorpion (July 2000)
- Clan War - Second Scroll: The Unicorn
- Clan War - Third Scroll: The Crane
- Clan War - Fourth Scroll: The Phoenix
- Clan War - Fifth Scroll: The Crab
- Clan War - Sixth Scroll: The Dragon
- Clan War - Seventh Scroll: The Lion
The Four Winds Saga
- The Steel Throne (Prelude)
- Wind of Honor (First scroll)
- Wind of War (Second scroll)
- Wind of Justice (Third scroll)
- Wind of Truth (Fourth scroll)
Rokugan
Legend of the Five Rings is set primarily in the fictional land of Rokugan (also known as the Emerald Empire), based on feudal JapanJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
with influences from other East Asia
East Asia
East Asia or Eastern Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms...
n cultures, where samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
, shugenja
Shugenja
Shugenja were the 7th century practitioners of the Japanese religion of Shugendō. They were sometimes known as yamabushi, incorrectly translated as "mountain warriors", "warrior priests", "bandit monks", etc., though warrior priests or warrior monks are correctly termed sōhei in...
, and trained courtiers vie for control of the noble courts. Rokugan itself is home to mostly humans, divided into a society based on clans, with eight Great Clans and various minor ones, though at the moment they are all in confusion, and are vying for one of their members to be the new Emperor. They are regularly threatened by evil plots from within, but the main threat still lies to the southwest of Rokugan: the deadly wastes of the Shadowlands, where demonic hordes roam.
The world of L5R, which contains Rokugan, also contains the nations of the Burning Sands
Legend of the Burning Sands
Legend of the Burning Sands is a collectible card game published by Five Rings Publishing Group in 1998. It was a spin-off from the earlier CCG Legend of the Five Rings...
as well as the Ivory Kingdoms. A few foreign visitors from these lands have been featured in Legend of the Five Rings, but have not played a major role in the storyline. Much is unknown of these lands, mostly due to the extreme xenophobia of the Rokugani, shown in the story by an Imperial mandate of non-interaction with Gaijin
Gaijin
is a Japanese word meaning "non-Japanese", or "alien". This word is a short form of gaikokujin , which literally means "person from outside of the country". The word is composed of two kanji: , meaning "outside"; and , meaning "person". Thus, the word technically means "outsider"...
.
Ownership
The following is from D. J. Trindle's post to the L5R e-mail newsgroups regarding the future - and the past - of the role-playing game. It was entitled "Whither the L5R RPG?" and is archived in full at http://l5r.alderac.com/rpg/whither_l5rrpg.html
Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG), in partnership with Isomedia, first designed and published the L5R collectible card game in 1995. Eventually, it became obvious that L5R would greatly benefit from the sort of promotion, marketing, and production that costs a lot of money. Some of the original AEG and Isomedia folks found interested investors and formed the Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG), which purchased the intellectual property (IP) that is L5R.
FRPG took over production and marketing, while AEG continued to design the game. In 1997, AEG licensed the role-playing publication rights for L5R from FRPG, and published the first edition of the L5R RPG. The fans liked it enough to vote it the Best RPG of 1997 at the Origins Awards, and the core book went through four printings while spawning two dozen sourcebooks and add-on products.
In 1997, FRPG was purchased by Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...
. The existing licenses remained in place, so the same creative team continued work on Legend of the Five Rings, AEG continued publishing the RPG, and Wizards began publishing the card game. In 1999, Legend of the Five Rings changed hands once more when Wizards was purchased by toy-making giant Hasbro
Hasbro
Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...
(however, "Wizards" continued operations under their original name). The previous licenses were still in effect, so changes to the games and the development teams as a result were unnoticeable. Wizards of the Coast re-released Oriental Adventures
Oriental Adventures
Oriental Adventures is the title shared by two hardback rulebooks published for different versions of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
(a long out-of-print AD&D supplement), changing the setting from the original Kara-Tur
Kara-Tur
Kara-Tur is a fantasy world created by David Cook in the Oriental Adventures rulebook for the First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1986. Kara-Tur's cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Tibet, and other regions of...
to Rokugan, and updating the supplement to the d20
D20 System
The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
rules. Several of the following sourcebooks provided dual (d20 & d10/R&K) rulesets.
In late 2000, however, speculation about the future of Legend of the Five Rings – especially the RPG – began to run rampant after Hasbro, during a string of decisions that greatly upset the leadership at Wizards, decided to sell Legend of the Five Rings two years before AEG's long-standing license was due to expire. Any fears turned out to be unfounded when, less than half a year later, AEG won the bidding war for Legend of the Five Rings.
Today, AEG owns the intellectual property of Legend of the Five Rings and still designs and publishes the card game and the role-playing game. AEG released Lotus Edition for the CCG in late 2005, beginning the Age of Enlightenment story arc. The new Samurai Edition was released in July 2007, and includes the Race for the Throne story arc. Celestial Edition is scheduled for mid-2009 and will usher in a new storyline for players to take part in.
Story Team
There have been five 'eras' when it comes to the L5R Story Lead/Team.The previous lead was Rich Wulf, assisted by Shawn Carman. Wulf's works include Way of the Wolf, Bells of the Dead, Rokugan, and many other Legend of the Five Rings products. Large contributions to the Legend of the Five Rings series were also made by Ree Soesbee, who was lead writer of Legend of the Five Rings prior to Rich Wulf, and John Wick before her who along with the founding members of Five Rings Publishing Group created the world. While the property was controlled by Wizards of the Coast, the creation of the Four Winds arc (starting with Gold Edition) was helmed by Paul Allen Timm and Rob Heinsoo with contributions from Andy Heckt and Frank Chafe.
Currently, Shawn Carman is the head of the Legend of the Five Rings Story Team. He has had great success at incorporating player effects into the game in a smooth manner, regardless of how odd the results of a tournament may be to the setting of the game. His team includes Rusty Priske, Nancy Sauer, Brian Yoon, Yoon Ha Lee, and Robert Denton with Fred Wan acting as co-lead and continuity editor. The team formerly included Lucas Twyman, who left the team in July of 2011.
International Olympic Committee
One legal issue for Legend of the Five Rings involved the use of a symbol that consisted of five interlocking rings, arranged in essentially a star pattern. This symbol was used for several years in the role-playing game and featured prominently on the backings of the cards in the collectible card game. The United States Olympic Committee sued Wizards of the Coast, who at that time owned Legend of the Five Rings, over the logo, because a special Act of the U.S. Congress gave them the exclusive rights to any symbol consisting of five interlocking rings.The only way to completely resolve the issue was to quit using the symbol. For the role-playing game this meant very little, but for the collectible card game it meant that the backing of the cards had to be redesigned, which left players with a mix of cards that essentially resulted in marked decks. In an attempt to appease the players, Wizards released the first set with the different backs – Spirit Wars – bundled with opaque sleeves that would obscure the designs on the backs of the cards, allowing players to use any mix of cards in their decks.
See also
- Alderac Entertainment GroupAlderac Entertainment GroupAlderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California...
- Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game
- Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game
- RokuganRokuganRokugan is the fictional empire which is the main power in the Legend of the Five Rings setting, the basis for the Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game, Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game, the board game Art of War and the now out of print Clan War Miniatures game, all from...
- Clan War
- The Book of Five RingsThe Book of Five Ringsis a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. There have been various translations made over the years, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than only that of martial artists: for instance, some business leaders find its...
See also Legend of the Five Rings (disambiguation)
Legend of the Five Rings (disambiguation)
Legend of the Five Rings may refer to:* Legend of the Five Rings, a fictional setting based on feudal Japan and currently controlled by Alderac Entertainment Group...
for other articles which share this name.
External links
- Alderac Entertainment Group - The publishers of Legend of the Five Rings.
- Legend of the Five Rings - The official Legend of the Five Rings home page.
- The official AEG Forums - The official AEG Forums for L5R (and their other games)
- Comprehensive Rules - The full rules of the Legend of the Five Rings CCG. - The unofficial Legend of the Five Rings wiki.
- Home of the Crane Clan - The Crane Clan forums
- Kaze no Shiro - Castle of the Wind - A website dedicated to collecting all canon Fiction of L5R.
- Five Rings Online - Five years standing L5R online digichat based game, currently in its 4th story arc.
- Daigotsu.com - Unofficial, popular fan-made website with forums for players, a searchable card database, a listing of past fictions and a trading utility all made for and by fans of the Legend of the Five Rings CCG.
- Playccg - Legend of the Five Rings singles card store - has images of every L5R card ever made.
- L5R Search - Nearly comprehensive Legend of the Five Rings search engine and singles card store, based in New Zealand.
- DocAngst.com - Legend of the Five Rings search engine and singles card store.
- Gijon Shiro - Fan-made website about the city of Gijon (Asturias, Spain) in L5R.
- Heroes of Rokugan - Home of the Heroes of Rokugan, currently in its 3rd story arc.