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L5R Creatures of Rokugan Third Edition (Legend of the Five Rings (AEG)) [Paperback]

Brian Bates (Author), Shawn Carman (Author), Sean Holland (Author)
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Legend of the Five Rings (AEG) May 16, 2007
Rokugan has never belonged to humans alone. Ages before the dawn of the Empire, great civilizations built by non-human races, such as the naga and ogres, marked the land. Though their civilizations are gone now, their descendants still dwell upon the earth and in the seas. Since the catastrophic Fall of Fu Leng, oni - spawn of Jigoku - and their terrible offspring have walked the Shadowlands and warred against the Empire without cease. A dazzling variety of creatures great and small have always been a part of this world - some fearsome, some benign, some visitors from Spirit Realms. No understanding of Rokugan would be complete without them.
Creatures of Rokugan: Third Edition is a comprehensive catalogue of the remarkable creatures and monsters that populate Rokugan and the Shadowlands, presented to conform to Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game Third Edition rules. You will meet all manner of creatures, spirits, oni and ghosts here, from the sorcerous ashalan to the bizarre zokujin: Over 200 entries, including some creatures never before described for any edition of Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game. Rules for creating naga and nezumi player characters. Detailed discussions of naga and nezumi history, society and culture, including their relationships with the Great Clans. Rules for creating shapeshifter player characters. Standardized sets of traits and abilities for various classes of creatures, to make them easier to use and remember. This book is a must-have resource for every Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game campaign. Creatures of Rokugan: Third Edition is a rules supplement, and its use requires the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game ThirdEdition core rulebook.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group; 3 edition (May 16, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594720401
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594720406
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Douglas Sun has been, at various points in his adult life, a university English professor, a computer game producer, a newspaper book critic, a quiz show writer, a quiz show researcher, a quiz show contestant (his quietly humiliating defeat on Win Ben Stein's Money is no doubt archived somewhere) and a clerk in an eBay consignment store. Since the late 1990's, however, he has been a writer and game designer, working mostly in tabletop roleplaying games.

He has developed and/or authored over 30 tabletop roleplaying game products, many of which are available through Amazon Marketplace. They include books for Decipher's Star Trek and The Lord of the Rings roleplaying games and AEG's d20 mega-setting book, The World's Largest City. He was line developer of The Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game, editing and co-writing all but one of the Third Edition supplements. One of the books that he developed, The Emerald Empire, was nominated for an Origins Award and remains one of the best-selling books in the game's long and prolific history.

He is currently a partner in digital game developer Bushi-go. In his oh-so-copious free time, he blogs about games and other forms of geekery at "'I Think We've Been Playing It Wrong.'"

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but with some problems..., October 2, 2008
This review is from: L5R Creatures of Rokugan Third Edition (Legend of the Five Rings (AEG)) (Paperback)
As far as supplements go, Creatures of Rokugan is pretty useful. The first few chapters deal with rules for playing spirits of various realms (including animal spirits), naga, and nezumi. Animal spirits are fairly well-done and appealing; they aren't extremely powerful, but have a number of very useful abilities that make them excellent additions for any group. Naga and nezumi have been updated and seem somewhat expanded compared to their earlier incarnations in the game; nezumi especially are very detailed and have a lot of style behind them.

After this come the various creatures, and there is no lack here. Instead of a "Shadowlands On Parade", we get a bit more diversity. Keep in mind, of course, that oni, gaki, and other hostile beings are more plentiful, but a clever GM will find plenty of extra creatures that should help them come up with some good ideas.

Is the book perfect? Sadly, no. I regret to inform you all that AEG seems to stubbornly refuse to proofread their work, or even run their text through a spell-checker. There's a lot of somewhat poor flavor text, and misspellings are so common that they'd give a teacher fits. Normally, I'm not really concerned with such things if the rules are sound, but several of the people who work with AEG have been in the business too long to be making these kinds of mistakes, and one would have hoped they'd have at least bought a copy of MS Office or something that can help them avoid the more obvious mistakes with nothing more than a few mouse clicks.

If you can overlook the poor writing quality and consider that you are buying this book to flesh out the land of Rokugan with more than just humans, you are definitely getting your money's worth. Just don't bring a lot of expectations to the store (or website) you buy it from.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great, July 10, 2007
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This review is from: L5R Creatures of Rokugan Third Edition (Legend of the Five Rings (AEG)) (Paperback)
This is the book of monsters for AEGs Legend of the 5 Rings RPG. Note, that while previous L5R books were done in a dual format of D20 and AEG rules, this book is all AEG rules. If you have the D20 Creatures of Rokugan book, you should be able to establish a conversion base with the monsters that are in both books.

While this book does have a lot of creatures in it, the book fails to follow the most fundamental rule of a monster book, "Good Art and Lots of It". The majority of the monsters of this book are not illustrated and those that are, well the art is not that good. When you are dealing with exotic creatures like Oni, the demons of Japanese mythology, you really need pictures to visualize them. Considering all the art available from the L5R card game, the lack of monster pictures here is strange.

The book does have very good sections on the Naga, serpent people, and the Nezumi, rat people. These sections provide everything you need to play these races and takes up about a third of the book. The rest is an alphabetical list of the creatures, monsters and spirits of Rokugan and while they are described in detail, most are lacking illustrations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable source!, May 25, 2009
This review is from: L5R Creatures of Rokugan Third Edition (Legend of the Five Rings (AEG)) (Paperback)
This is another Excelent Source book of Legends of the Five Rings!

Rules to play with the Nezumi Ratling and Naga ... and lots ... LOTS of creature to fill yous campaing with terror!!!

Very very nice!
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