Legend of the Five Rings, Second Edition: Game Master's Guide

Game Master's Guide: Second Edition

Legend of the Five Rings: Second Edition: Game Master's Guide was the Game Master's core rulebook for Second Edition of the Legend of the Five Rings roleplaying game.

Contents

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Chapter One: Void (page 6)

• Fiction "Hiruma's Breath", with Hiruma Sumiko, Hiruma Eikihiro, and Zenkai no Oni.
• Mythic Histories
  • The Ancient Time
  • The Age of Myth
  • The Thousand Years of Peace
• True Histories
  • Rokugani Histories
• Famous Battles
  • The First Day of Thunder
  • The Lion-Phoenix Conflict
  • The Battle of Three Stone River
  • Victory With No Strike
  • The First War
  • The Battle of Raging Seas
  • The Battle of White Stag
  • The Battle of Stolen Graves
  • The Battle of Tidal Landbridge
  • The Fall of Hiruma Castle
  • The Battle of the Cresting Wave
  • The Battle of Sleeping River
  • The Battle of the Bloody Retreat
  • Return of the Ki-Rin
  • Seven Day Battle Plain
  • The Lion-Crane War
  • The Battle on the Plains of Gaiju Shindai
  • The Battle of the Forgotten Tide
  • The Scorpion Coup
• Cities and Villages

Geography of Rokugan in 1125

• • Lands of the Crab
  • Lands of the Crane
  • Lands of the Dragon
  • Lands of the Lion
  • Lands of the Naga
  • Lands of the Phoenix
  • Lands of the Scorpion
  • Lands of the Unicorn
  • Unaligned and Minor clans Lands
  • Imperial Lands
  • Lands of the Three Man Alliance
• Regions of the Empire

Chapter Two: Within (page 60)

Locations of Rokugan in 1125

• Fiction "No Heroes", with Miya Yumi, Miya Satoshi, Miya Yoto, Koan, and Sanzo.
• The Empire
  • The Bonge
  • Gardens
  • How One Becomes Ronin
  • Measuring Time
  • Hours of the Day
  • Family
  • Drums
  • Gagaku
  • Bunraku
  • Fans
  • Cloth
  • Games
  • I Beat Him Just Enough
  • Bonuses
  • Rokugan is a Quiet Place
  • Night
  • Seppuku
  • More on Seppuku
• Training and Apprentices
• Diplomacy
  • The Chambers of Court
  • Approximate Glory Ratings
• Natural Disasters
• The Wasting Disease
• Armor and Weapons
• Religion
  • The Worship of the Fortunes
  • The Seven Virtues of Bushido
  • Ancestor Worship
  • The Religion
  • The Ancestor's Shrine
• Sensing and Countering Magic
• Spell Research
• Advanced Schools

Tsuruchi Bounty Hunter

• • Crab Avenger School
  • Crane Kenshinzen
  • Dragon Spirit-Binders
  • The Lion's Pride
  • Phoenix Elemental Guard
  • Scorpion Supai
  • Unicorn Magistrates
• The Minor Clans
  • Yoritomo's Alliance
  • The Tortoise
  • The Wasp
  • The Sparrow
  • The Centipede
• GM Clan Material
• Normal Creatures

Chapter Three: Without (page 114)

• Fiction "A Restless Dawn", with Hida Kisada and his son Hida Yakamo, devising the invasion of the Asahina lands.
• The Shadowlands
  • The Taint
  • Tainted Characters
  • Harboring the Taint
  • Magic in the Shadowlands
  • Preventions against the Taint
  • Getting Rid of the Shadowlands Taint
  • Touch of Corruption
  • The Power of Jade
  • Ratlings
• Maho
  • The Element of Corruption
  • The Dark Way
  • Game-Mastering a Maho-tsukai
  • Maho Mechanics
• Maho spells
• The Bloodspeakers
• Fu Leng's Realm

Goblin

• • Goblins
  • Kumo
  • Ogres
  • Oni
  • Onikage (Steeds of Fu Leng)
  • Trolls
  • Zombies and Skeletons
  • Shadowlands Madmen
• Creatures
• The Living Darkness
  • The Beginning
  • The Scorpion Connection
  • Goju
  • Ninja
  • The Powers of the Darkness
  • The Lying Darkness
  • Shadow Points
  • The Darkness and Your PCs
  • Touched By the Darkness
  • The Darkness in Your Game

Chapter Four: Bushido (page 152)

• How To Run an L5R Campaign
• Adventure Themes
• Experience
• Using NPCs
• Adventure Ideas: Skills
  • Skills
  • High Skills
  • The Sins of Lord Bumikari
  • The Gift
  • Low Skills
• Adventure Ideas: Advantages
• Adventure Ideas: Disadvantages
• The GM's Grab Bag
• The Haunting of Usagi Castle (Introductory Adventure)
  • Synopsis
  • Game Master Notes
  • Ryoko Owari
  • The Assignment
  • Investigating the Ruins
  • Resolution
  • Who's Who
  • The Inquisitors
  • I'm Haunted!

Appendix: All and Nothing (page 216)

• Charts
• Items and Trinkets
• Interesting NPCs
• Encounters
• Events
• The Shadowlands
• Creating Oni
• Bandit Creation Table
• Mastery Levels of Previously Published Spells
• The Battle Table
• Character Option Compilation - Skills
• Character Option Compilation - Advantages
• Character Option Compilation - Disadvantages
• Notes for Character Option Compilation
• Index