Oracle of the Void #l5r

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"@Isawa Jim (Mykael Dolph) is announcing a New and Returning Players Workshop! This is a free, digital event that everyone is invited to.

The workshop will cover: - learning the L5R CCG game (Ivory/Twenty Festival rules) - explaining different formats and editions - installing/fixing Sun and Moon - configuring Sun and Moon for older formats or for Onyx Lives! - playing against new and returning players with pre constructed decks

The event will be held on Sunday, September 1st, 10am PST (GMT -8), so feel free to join us in the Discord Voice channel and have some fun!

Disclaimer - Internet and speakers (audio out) are required to attend. Microphone is optional but highly encouraged."

That's a tough question. But you can find people selling off entire collections, cheaply, if you can afford the shipping by weight.

Probably the easiest way.

Because L5R was always in arcs, which spanned multiple core sets and usually around half a dozen expansions.

when you buy a collection, usually those folks collect only within a particular arc - I just picked up a collection that was mostly Imperial-Jade, for instance, while my own collection (prior to that) is mainly Samurai and Emperor -- the trickier thing is that it is very easy with L5R to get more cards than you really need - so I saw an Emperor lot the other day, and I thought about it, but I was 90% sure that the majority of it would repeat what I have...

... and at some juncture you use CatOne or DocAngst or Imperial Auction Block and buy singles 😂

And for those of us who own those sites, some of the duplication is pretty darn extreme.

I might need to start my own site.... there's a pile on the side of my room of "copies copies copies what to do with them?" (but it's only in the 300-400 card range for now)

I believe I have 20+ copies of this card alone:

(but don't ask how many copies of Stables I have...)

Yeah I have triple digits in some promos of that era

Well.. several promos of that era

they are huge in L5R - sometimes folks say that L5R released almost a full set worth of promos each arc...

Going to events, herald subscription

koku!!!

Read the notes on Oracle for each promo

I was a crazy collector... My price for writing the Oracle originally was to get every card released

Because I was tired of chasing promos

I so I actually used the website to print proxy promos, so big time thank you!!!! I'm in the process of trying to deck build now and get a better understanding of the game, reading thru alot of the promos I've found so far is helping me understand deck building much more

Since Ivory edition all organized play promos were reprints of older cards with new art and updated wording to Ivory template.

I'm looking at getting some emperor edition stuff, what is with bamboo harvester or border keep in every deck during emperor? I saw promos in ivory but never really saw them in lists

I became a Tournament Organizer for Android: Netrunner so I could get playsets of the promos.

Becasue those cards were released in Forgotten Legacy set, available directly from AEG.

I mean experienced versions. Basic BK and BH were available in every Celestial and Emperor starter as fixed cards.

Ahhh, I was eying getting the gemppuku starters and such and start building so emperor edition, but first I'm going to rebuild my ivory and 20f decks using promos

Yeah, if your focus is to play IRL games, I would stick with one arc at a time, cause every arc feels radically different from the others. I recently ran Crane in Samurai and Crane in Emperor and gosh those felt like radically different things, even though they had the same basic strategy!

Best. Game. Ever.

It was awfully fun selling nine Jackson Howards for $30 each.

Man, I wish I didn't sell my complete collection. The prices are crazy now.

Same for Samurai.

Emperor dishonor is so fun — and you’ve got a lot of options for it! there’s even a Phoenix who dishonors things!!

I think once I sort out my Ivory and 20f I'm going to move up to Emperor edition for a different meta. I know scorpion can dishonor in ivory and there is some yasuki dishonor too, I'm going to have to see how the mechanics work in a dishonor unfriendly environment before moving into a more dishonor friendly environment

It might help to focus on the side of the story you find the most fascinating, so you don't spread your effort everywhere.

The Scorpion Clan Coup? The Clan War? The Destroyer War? You can find a quick synopsis of those stories on the back of 20F Gates of the Second City strongholds.

Is it the relics and the stories behind them? I find the Ancestral gear through the years awesome. (I like items in pretty much every game; I haven't played MtG since Mirage but sometimes grab an artifact I like.)

Is it a Clan? The story of that Clan? Like the best Clan of them all, the Scorpion?

I only suggest this from a card POV, because otherwise you might have a bunch of half-collections.

If it's not the cards but the storyline of the early sets, I recommend checking out the book The Time of the Void, AEG3033. It's a full lore book from the Shadowlands to Time of the Void sets, and you can find copies on ebay from $20-$40.

Also, it's out of print, so I would never tell someone that you can find a full pdf on Scribd, because that would be something perhaps dubious.

some of us - I'm not going to name any names (but it's me) - read the L5R wiki for fun, and then go and compare with my TTRPG sourcebooks to compare lore between them, as though I can do IRL historical work on fictional histories

(like, for instance, the moment I realized that EDGE's Adventures in Rokugan lists the Nezumi lifespan as ... less than 10 years... in stark contradiction to what is stated in other sourcebooks)

I might have a couch reading shelf...

I didn't get any FFG books because... FFG...

Where is my LBS book...

:baro_sus:

it's beautiful!!