The Mantis Clan

The changes of the main site and forum will began this month, be ready for great changes!!

As per the Legend of the Five Rings Facebook Page

The site and forum will change a lot on a near future, the process will began on April be ready for it!!

Effective October 11th, the following cards will receive the following errata:

Basic Lesson – It will now negate your Stronghold’s straightening for the remainder of the turn when you use its Limited action.
Low Market – It will no longer reduce an attachment’s gold cost below 1.
Library of Rebirth – The reaction now requires your Shugenja to be opposed.

Effective October 5th, the following card will receive the following errata:

Isawa Momoko – She now only ignores the bowing costs.

The first three errata are issued to address problems of gold acceleration in the environment. With these changes, they maintain their intended purposes while removing much of their abuse in blitz decks whose soul desire is to get as many free, permanent resources as they can. The change to Isawa Momoko brings her in line with her intended use, which is to say she ignores bowing costs, and not costs which removed themselves from the game, such asCapturing the Soul.

We do not issue errata lightly, but feel that these cards were in need of fixing in order to preserve the best tournament and casual playing experience possible.

Talk has already begun about Basic Lesson here

OK, so all of you on facebook should have been seeing news about this from many of the L5R peeps posting about this project.

For those not yet aware, they made their original goal, so the movie will get made! Not only that, but L5R player Sarah Corn (note the awesome Mohawk) appears in the film.

The best news, however, is that if they make their final stretch goal of $380,000 by tomorrow night, AEG will bring back Legend of the Burning Sands, re-incarnated as the Romance of the Nine Empires card game from the movie. That’s right, AEG will make the card game, from the movie, and have it available to play (I’m guessing) for the premiere at GenCon 2013!

Thanks for your support throughout this whole campaign, and any help you might be able to give for the last 30-hour push!

Here is the link to check http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zombieorpheus/the-gamers-hands-of-fate/posts/302500

Edit: I will Fix the size later, on the road for a family reunion!!!!

EDIT 2: Arrived Today from my vacation in Italy and fix the size

“On Sunday June 3, 2012, AEG informed Kyuden Mantis that Mantis previews will alternate between Kyuden Mantis and the Kobune Port. Since EoW previews were hosted here, TSE previews will be hosted on the Kobune Port, and the Seeds of Decay previews will be here again – all other things being equal. Kyuden Mantis would like to remind its membership that while threads discussing previews on another site is appropriate – the direct linking of the images of those previews are not. That is a violation of AEG’s policies, just like posting the complete text of official fictions less than thirty days after it first appeared, or posting leaked images. Failure to comply with this AEG policy will resort in warnings and/or bannings at the discretion of the administrators or mods.

We look forward to hosting the Seeds of Decay Preview including the next Mantis Stronghold. In the meantime enjoy the TSE previews on Kobune Port.”

Every now and again gender biases become an issue. Even in L5R, where the community is far better than most gaming communities, we are not immune to the trash talk and misogyny that can and has occurred.

Now compared to the incident here http://www.themarysue.com/sexism-at-magic-tournament/ what has happened recently at a kotei seems mostly harmless, but truth is, the things that got said were hurtful on a personal level. Even if it was just a reactionary temper tantrum (which I myself have been guilty of in the past), that’s no excuse for insults.

As far as being a girl gamer goes, I have been lucky. I have been treated mostly as an equal. I get it more from people who think I am a “pink hat” rather than a real Boston Sports Fan. It pisses me off when these people think I don’t know my teams. Regardless of male dominated hobby, women need to be treated with the respect they deserve. In fact EVERYONE should be treated with respect and dignity until such an incident occurs to warrant otherwise.

I have seen some instances where this simple rule has not been followed and heard about more. I suppose spending my teens as “one of the guys” makes me a lot more tolerant of the off color humor. I was also able to write off the one incident that crossed the line as drunken stupidity.

A little bit of back story here… I have been attending storyline events since fall of 2007. Only once have I ever been made to feel uncomfortable and that was 2011. Someone crossed that line between off color humor and harassment. I knew the person well and knew it was 100% the alcohol he had consumed. I kinda kept it quiet at the time since I had figured it wasnt a gender thing but a drunken stupidity thing. I told my fiance and one of the TO staff. The TO asked if I wanted the guy banned, I didnt feel that was right, so I said no I just wanted them to be aware so it didnt happen again, to anyone.

In L5R we are lucky and the sexual harassment stuff doesn’t happen often. Sadly we are not immune to it, as I know I am not the only one with this kind of story. What seems to be more common is the trash talking and the patronizing that some women get. I have not actually really experienced either, however I know folks who have. It goes back to the respect thing I mentioned. At this point I have been around long enough where I have to some extent become an equal… I have actually been told “You’re not a girl, you’re Rose” which I usually take as a good thing as I get treated as an equal. But I see that not everyone gets that treatment.

The community of L5R is one of the best I have experienced. Let’s keep it that way and be excellent to each other so we can all party on… respectfully.