Courts of the Crane Clan

The Toyotomi district had it share of chaos, as did much of the Imperial City has it rebuilt following the Scorpion Clan Coup. A minor family samurai named Matsumoto Eiko seemed to be acting as a leader for many in the district, and considered it under her guardianship. She was glad to see the magis...

Background and Characters and game 1: http://homeofthecraneclan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=813 Games 2, 3, and 4: http://homeofthecraneclan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=817 i can combine threads if you want, Admin-samas. Just feels like a way to break things up and so people can find the...

Well, I've been trying with my RPG stuff. I know it's not the most interesting content in the world, but it is evolving. Thank you for keeping the place going.

Free of the palace, but still within the four enchanted walls of the inner city, the mismatched group of samurai had to escape out of the full city of Otosan Uchi. Fighting was fierce everywhere, but the forces of Shiba Tsukune were drawing most of attention towards the Phoenix Embassy, where she so...

Each of the PCs had been brought by various reasons to the Imperial Palace Grounds that fateful autumn night. Hiruma Izuko was a young widow, a good warrior, but attractive and able to keep a very civil tongue, and the Crab attached her to their delegation as a minor underling in hopes that she not ...

This is a summary-style writeup of an RPG campaign that I ran for my players. There's many ways to run Scorpion Clan Coup and its immediate aftermath, of course. I think what I enjoyed most about this one was that it allowed the characters to interact with a surprising number of CCG characters as th...

The Explosive Ending – Part 3. Winter Court began, and with it the final months of Kotori’s year as Jade Champion. There were many of the normal Winter Court distractions and hijinks unrelated to the main story. Kotori and her companions did their best to survive in the cut throat environment, mostl...

A Plague of Treasons – Part 2 Bayushi Kyono had arranged passage for Kuni Kotori, Moto Tsolmon, Togashi Hachi, and the Kakita twins south to the Wall where the traitor, Bayushi Joro, had hinted that Kotori might find a traitor among her own family. They travelled swiftly by boat down the river past ...

One of those shugenja was a Crab, Kuni Kotori, and she won the title of Jade Champion. As an Imperial Champion, she had independence to go ‘fight maho and magical evil within the Empire as she wished’, and the Crab had little interest in using her victory to make a power play, so the Jade Champion w...

This is a summary style writeup of a fairly long L5R campaign run by my friend, Brigham Bentley in Wilmington, DE. All Kudos to him. I've tweaked some details, probably have some names wrong, etc, and filled in some background and explanations based on guess work. This is a fine campaign to run with...