I'm looking to run an L5R game. Eventually. And a change I want to make to the system is that I want to import tRoS's SAs pretty much whole cloth. As both a Dice Pool bonus AND as an Experiance Mechanic.

I don't know if anyone else has done this, but if so I was curious if you added the SA rank to just the Roll, or to both the Roll and Keep?

Hi 6,

Given L5R's exploding dice mechanics, extra dice go a looooong way. If you only allow the SA's to add to the Roll factor, you will make them a very significant means of increased ability. If you make them a roll and keep factor, you pretty much say that skill and ability are close to meaningless to the SAs.

Of course, either one works well with the L5R concept, just be aware that the latter will make the players hardly feel that character advancement is worth anything at all.

Do let me know how that turns out, I'm planning on running an L5R game with the Sorcerer rules, and it'd be interesting to compare notes.

Chris

Bankuei wrote: Given L5R's exploding dice mechanics, extra dice go a looooong way. If you only allow the SA's to add to the Roll factor, you will make them a very significant means of increased ability. If you make them a roll and keep factor, you pretty much say that skill and ability are close to meaningless to the SAs.