The next installment of the L5R 4th Edition Designer Diaries is now up at ENworld.org. The link is a direct link to the article. In this installment Brian Yoon discusses Correcting the Mistakes of the Past in Fourth, and goes into some of the decisions the team made when it comes to sacred cows and other things.

The next installment of the L5R 4th Edition Designer Diaries is now up at ENworld.org. The link is a direct link to the article. In this installment Shawn Carman discusses the Philosophy of the design of Fourth, and goes into some of the systems that have been altered or dropped from the new edition.

The playtesters of the L5R RPG Playtest Team #8 have compiled the 3rd Edition Way of the Open Hand Web Supplement. It is now available for download (1.9Mb PDF). AEG would like to thank the team for its diligent efforts on pulling together this project, as well as their continued work on the Fourth Edition of the L5R RPG, releasing in the second quarter of 2010.

We are honored to have ENWorld.org hosting exclusive Designer Diaries for our Legend of the Five Rings Fourth Edition RPG. The first has just been posted and can be seen at here. Be sure to register there and join the discussion! You can also visit the main EnWorld.org page to see the full schedule of diaries coming in the next months.

Now you can download the new Masters of Court Web Supplement (164 Kb PDF). This supplement contains many new NPCs, Dojos, and more that were not in the printed book of Masters of Court.

Just a reminder to all you players who have held off putting your application in for Winter Court this year that the player applications will close on *August 1st*. Any applications received after this date will be discarded and will not receive a response, so make sure you get your application in before then! You can find the application here.

Rebecca Hobart / Cryllia
Head Judge, Winter Court

You may now download a preview PDF of the Table of Contents for The Vacant Throne sourcebook, releasing this August for the L5R RPG. This sourcebook features the events of the late Lotus and Samurai Edition arc, leading up to the current events of Celestial Edition. The book also features two adventures and two of the winning RPG contest entries from the Race for the Throne.

Download the PDF (600 Kb).

Applications for player participation in this year’s play-by-post Winter Court RPG event are now open. The Winter Court will impact the Mega Game in several ways, as well as containing several landmark events for Rokugan in its own right.

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AEG is both pleased and proud to announce the return of the Winter Court Play-By-Post Roleplaying Event. Not only will this Winter Court be an integral part of the Celestial Edition Mega Game, it will also be one of the major events bridging into Legend of the Five Rings’ 15th-anniversary year.
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Fealty and Freedom
(172 pages, softbound)

We are not the footnotes of history. We follow in the footsteps of heroes. – Toturi Kyoji

While the Great Clans are the Emerald Empire’s most obvious movers of great events, they are not the only ones. Since the Dawn of the Empire, the Emperor has retained the right to create Minor Clans as reward to those who have served with great distinction. The Imperial Families – the Seppun, the Otomo, and the Miya – have devoted their lives to serving the Imperial Throne directly, and although they are small compared to the Great Clan families, the pride they take in their role as the Emperor’s own retained servants makes up for their lack of numbers. And ronin, though despised as “wave-men” are always useful to their betters as freelance soldiers and are on occasion important parts of the social order.
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