L5R RPG Emerald Empire L5R Companion (Legend of the Five Rings) [Hardcover]

Shawn Carman (Author), Richard Farrese (Author), Douglas Sun (Author), Brian Yoon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Legend of the Five Rings | Publication Date: September 12, 2007

Emerald Empire is a must-have for Legend of the Five Rings Role- Playing Game Players & GMs who wish to bring their campaigns alive with a wealth of details about the workings of Rokugani life, as well as plot hooks and adventure ideas. It is also a crucial resource for players who want to understand how their characters - or the NPCs whom they encounter - are expected to act, and think and feel, and how they are shaped by the world in which they live.

Above all, Emerald Empire: The Legend of the Five Rings Companion is a comprehensive guide to the world of Rokugan, its wonders and its commonplaces. It is a rules supplement that requires the Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game Third Edition core rulebook to make full use of it, but it also contains by itself much of interest to any Legend of the Five Rings fan.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group (September 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594720428
• ISBN-13: 978-1594720420
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,358,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.'"

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Emerald Empire, September 1, 2010

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Leila - See all my reviews

This review is from: L5R RPG Emerald Empire L5R Companion (Legend of the Five Rings) (Hardcover)

I find this book to be immensely helpful- it updates a few advantages from previous editions, provides lots of flavor text on the world, and is very well organized. It also includes some random event tables for the stuck GM. Overall, very helpful. However, just go ask your local game store if they have it. I stalked amazon for months waiting for the price to drop below $300, only to discover that a local dealer had it for $25.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Emerald Empire Addition, May 12, 2008

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R. Hudson "Rifle Shogun" (Military) - See all my reviews
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This book offers a comprehensive view to some of the subleties of the the Emerald Empire and specifically a closer look at the Emperor's center circle. A great supplement for the L5R campaign or Samurai enthusiasts.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gaming, November 17, 2007

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This review is from: L5R RPG Emerald Empire L5R Companion (Legend of the Five Rings) (Hardcover)

A great additon to an excellent setting and system. I love the setting info and great mechanical additions as well. A great supplement to the Core book.