Kakita Ukyo:
So here's what I have so far for my Iaijutsu Duelist:
Name: Kakita Ukyo Clan: Crane School: Kakita Bushi
Rank: 2 Insight: 163
Rings: Traits:
Earth: 3 Stamina: 3
Willpower: 3
Water: 2 Strength: 2
Perception: 2
Fire: 3 Agility: 4
Intelligence: 3
Air: 2 Reflexes: 4
Awareness: 2
Void: 4
Skills Emphases Ranks | Advantages Disadvantages
Etiquette 2 Quick Bad Health
Iaijutsu 6 Driven (Prove
Kenjutsu (Katana) 2 worthy to
Kyujutsu 1 family)
Defense 5
Meditation (Void Recovery) 3
Tea Ceremony 1
Athletics 2
Lore: Shadowlands 1
Battle 2
Kata: Striking as Earth
Techniques: The Way of the Crane, The Sudden Strike
Roll to Attack is 9k4
Defense (unarmored) of 25
Init is 7k4 + 10
Glory 1.1
Honor 3.5
Status 1
Does this look okay? I haven't made a character in this game before so it's all new to me. Any suggestions? Did I make him weak? Strong? Average? I was trying to make him somewhat well rounded but still be quite good in a Duel. Did I hit my goal?
If I might make a few suggestions?
First off, by my calculations, you actually have a higher Insight.
140 (Rings) +25 (Skill Ranks) +4 (Rank 5 Skill Mastery for Iaijutsu & Defense)= 169
You probably don't need Defense at 5. You get to add Defense to your TN to be Hit at Rank 3. The extra +2 isn't probably worth the 9 CP/XP you spend to raise Defense from 3 to 5... at least not right now.
Also you probably don't need Iaijutsu at 6 right now since you gain the Mastery Abilities at Rank 5 and again the added die for 6 CP probably isn't needed.
If you lower Defense to 3 & Iaijutsu to 5, you get 9+6= 15 CP/XP back just to start with. I really think you should consider raising your Awareness to Rank-3. Not only is Awarness an important skill for an Iaijutsu Duelist (after all, it is involved in evaluating your opponent, the better the Awareness/Iaijutsu roll the more info you get and the better choice you can make for what Trait/Ring your opponent has to use)... BUT... it'll raise your Air Ring to 3, giving you +10 Insight (at the cost of only 5 Insight from the lost ranks of skills & the last Rank 5 Mastery for Defense).
This will put you at 174 Insight... only +1 Insight more and you're Rank-3!! ;)
What is more, since it only costs 12 CP to raise Awareness to Rank-3, you still have +3 CP/XP to spend from lowering Defense to Rank-3 & Iaijutsu to Rank-5.
Basically all you need to do is either buy a new skill at Rank-1 or raise an existing skill by 1 rank... and you're at Insight 175 which is Rank-3 (and thus you gain your Rank-3 School Technique).
What you do with the 3 CP is up to you. If you bought a new skill at rank-1 for 1 CP, you could afford a 2 CP Kata or a 2 CP Advantage or buy a skill emphasis for 2 CP (just to name a few ideas for CP/XP spending).
FYI: I'm not sure if you're aware of the Errata but in the 3rd Edition book there is an error for the Kakita Bushi School. Etiquette is listed twice. One of those Etiquettes is supposed to be Meditation.
According to the AEG L5R Story Team Lead, the correct skill list for Kakita Bushi is:
quote:
Kakita Bushi School – Etiquette is listed twice. The proper Skill list is: Etiquette, Iaijutsu, Kenjutsu (Katana), Kyujutsu, Meditation, any High skill, any High or Bugei skill.