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Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

No Disadvantage to capitalise on on the other side.

Miya Suihime · **Joined:** Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:30 pm **Posts:** 903

I've noticed a few carrying drills over to actions on future days, choosing which ones for it to count for and stacking them.

Going by how its worded:

Quote:

Drills: Benefits of the next action and chances of its success are doubled.

1) Can you stack multiple drills? As worded, if you do drills then drills...you're just boosting the drills? Or does it boost the next non-drills

2) Do you choose when the drills would boost something - or is it all on the next action (aka for everyone, the repairs)?

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

1, You can't stack.

2. You don't choose.

Miya Suihime · **Joined:** Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:30 pm **Posts:** 903

At what point is the 'free' repair action happening from Boatswain? I assume it happens D4, but can it be done after other actions, and if it is how does this effect other actions?

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

Let's agree free repairs are done by the end of D4 for all ships.

Miya Suihime · **Joined:** Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:30 pm **Posts:** 903

Would this then use up previous sessions drills? Or do drills not carry over from previous sessions

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

If the Drill was the very last action for session #1, it would carry over to the first action of session #2.

Miya Suihime · **Joined:** Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:30 pm **Posts:** 903

I've split this into two posts as this is a bit longer than the previous comment:

First of all - thank you for clearing up squad actions! That's huge

they're really cool, but everyone seemed to be doing them differently, so having some structure is gonna help a lot.

Kannon wrote:

On Trade and Exploration. This is not a board game function that triggers regardless of context. You can explore with your boat if you can move your boat around. You can trade with your port if at a spot where your boat is there is something you can sell to something someone can buy. I think Only Susumu took anything that resembles cargo to sell from Rokugan, remind me in PFs if I am wrong. If you have the money to pick up cargo and then sell it, you can do it. If you don't have money, you can borrow it. In addition, as per the rules, fleet actions require threads which make fleet actions possible - uncommanded boats don't perform these actions. Once you meet the fluff conditions, you can grab all the fancy multipliers, but not earlier than that.

Is it ok to dedicate a timeslot offscreen for things like drills/repairs, if nothing else is being done in that slot?

Kannon wrote:

Same with exploration. Apart from Yamato Maru other boats are in ports. Moving around requires some agreement about it with port authorities. Jama is meeting Yubari LE off-screen so it may be that come D5 West Port vessels will be able to move around, but those in East Port require their own arrangements. If by this you mean mapping the waters along east, south and west sides of the island then it can be semi-automatic or maybe even off-screen if it's a mechanical benefit of Glory you're after. But if you want to do real exploration/adventure stuff, that requires several things:

a) opening of the northern waters off the island, coming for day 5
b) securing a crew for the slots LA+ for the day, which may take the rest of the day, because that's when the mists go up enough to take the risk of sailing in there
c) this not being all boats at once; I know I can't handle more than 1-2 adventure modules at a time

Three questions here:

1) How do we decide who gets to do exploration? First come first serve by post order in Squad management, or something else?
2) For mapping, can I use Miya Herald 1 to help with this (spending the vp for way of the land)?
3) Can we use our current DP crews?

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

#1. Yeah, I think Drills/Repairs are fine to be done off-screen if you can get more mileage out of your roleplay elsewhere. We can assume in such cases Boatswain takes over.

#2. I think you may want to try to agree this between captains. You can send two ships after one adventure, no problem with that. Those that get it for D5 may wait for the next time till the others get their chance for D6, to ensure some rotation and not make exploration a domain of just one boat. By crew I meant PC crew. Your DP crews are still there, but ships have to be commanded and manned by NPCs. I won't run a module for less than 3 active PCs I won't have to ghost through it. Particularly because if it doesn't finish by day's end we have a problem of it stealing timeslots of roleplaying for the next IC days as people hang in limbo, something I will want to avoid at all costs, aborting the module included.

So before you declare exploring, commit to it. Organise a team that can hop into it on first RL day of an IC day and proceed dynamically. For now, try to organise first foray for D5. Let's say West Port boats and Yamato are free to participate in it, Sui and/or Susu would do good meeting Juanito, Fuad, Mahasin or Goncalo to get their clearance. But it's also affected by the Tension dynamics. The more gaijin like you, the more freedom you have. Well, you can also just try to take your boat and leave port without clearance. It's possible, but will have story consequences.

Miya Herald is an insta-trigger of the Imperial Explorers tech, but it can also have fluff and light-mechanical influence over exploration, sure. We'll go there when we get there.

Miya Suihime · **Joined:** Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:30 pm **Posts:** 903

If I can arrange to meet someone for clearance with/without Susu that would be ideal (D5 I guess!)

I created a thread here to start exploration tracking

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

Sure!

Also, so as not to fully deny trade actions to no-cargo ships, let's agree that if you commit the Trade action you release your DP crews to work for the day in the port, and get the amount of koku the mechanics suggests. It just means that your shipwrights and stevedores etc. are not available for sailing during this IC day so other actions can't be taken until the next.

Kitsu Keiji · **Joined:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:46 pm **Posts:** 459

Some squadron management questions of my own:

1. Are squadron actions for the whole session, or declared per day? I thought it was for the whole session, so figured the Repair, Trade, Exploration etc. would be spread over the next few game days. I'm fine either way, just let us know what works best for you.

2. What do you mean we have no cargo? We have a whole shipload of monks and artisans to trade for local goods! How much can we sell these guys for?

Just kidding! Do you want us to spend a "squadron action" transferring these guys into their new home, or do we need to do some sort of negotiations before setting up a shrine is possible? Or, if they're stuck on the ship until we get a temple permit, can we have the artists make something that can be traded?

3. After repairs are done I'd actually like to sail around the island once in order to map the correct shape of the coastline, the location of reefs and navigational hazards and the like. It doesn't have to be a whole adventure thread (unless you want it to be), I'd just like to have IC knowledge of the local waters. Is this OK? Would it be an Exploration action?

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

#1. Per session, that is correct. But declaring them could be done gradually as opportunities come, not ahead for both days on D4.

#2. Actually, if you release those artisans/religious workers to the port to do their stuff, that can count as Trade action without compromising your crew (akhem, there is a monkless shrine Utsu/Kenzo can tell you about, khem). But they are technically under Bellena or Utsu, so work with them how it could go? They may not be returning on board either, so it can probably be done just once.

#3. This would be fine, except the northern waters, so if you do a west-south-east horseshoe, that's cool, and counts.

Mirumoto Kenzo · **Joined:** Wed Oct 04, 2017 6:06 pm **Posts:** 1661

Just want to make sure it's noticed that Sanjuro has Jurojin's Balm (eventually) cast on him here:

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Gusai Susumu · **Joined:** Mon Sep 18, 2017 7:36 pm **Posts:** 1243

Kannon wrote:

Let's treat boat surgeon as 3k2 Medicine Servant, and boat priests as 3k2 Path caster Servant, with 2 raises for kami scarcity. You roll if it comes up, just try not to game it by organising boat surgeon tours. Day limit on Medicine applies.

3k2 on tn 20?...

Servants are 5k2 base no?

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

Yeah, that was a bad ruling. Not reverting it now for D4. But let's say they were just shaken by the storm. From D5 they are 5k2.

Agasha Utsusemi · **Joined:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:18 pm **Posts:** 2397

Feedback for the CRIB-Even:

Can people work together to find a place to stay? I'm probably not speaking for just myself when I say that my character would prefer to not live alone but stay with other characters.
(also cheaper for those loans of 20 silver, less forces spread out for command to worry about, and safety in numbers)

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

For sanity: yes, but on the fluff level. It does not affect rolls or other costs. Bigger loci that accommodate bigger amount of people have proportionall bigger upkeep, and bonuses for the house are individual-based and are purchased by each player separately as his or her reward. Also, too much concentration in one place is not actually part of Jama's design behind 'go, spread out'.

Shiba Isamu · **Joined:** Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:46 am **Posts:** 62

How many times is it assumed that an npc shugenja can cast Path?

Kannon · **Joined:** Sun Oct 02, 2016 2:58 am **Posts:** 3783

Two. They have no void, so no void slots.

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