merryprankster
Journeyman Douchebag
Posts: 243
Favorite Species of Monkey: Howler
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Post by merryprankster on Aug 26, 2013 17:14:40 GMT -8
Combat in RPG's is so 2012!
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Post by guitarspider on Aug 29, 2013 2:06:55 GMT -8
I'm listening now... BTW, my view on the ronin situation is this: [...] While all this may be true (I'm certainly not as setting-proficient in L5R as you are), I believe the basis is still the personal relationship between liege and subject, because that's how feudal societies work. You can have all kinds of treaties, customs so strong they are on law-level and so on, but as soon as your liege doesn't like your face, you're in trouble. Same goes for the subject who doesn't like his liege, trouble for the liege, because ruling based on personal relationships is by necessity always consensual. So maybe you'd go to the clan for a reassignment, but that requires the judgment on your side that your previous relationship with your liege is dissolved, and reassignment necessarily requires a new relationship with a new liege. At the same time, once your liege is gone, your connection to the clan is suddenly far less solid. Think of it as an interpersonal network around your samurai, where the central point has suddenly been removed. It's a problem, because while in theory you may still be a clan member, the clan is abstract and loyalty is always personal. Now, it may well be that changing clans in such a situation is unusual, but that would imho probably not be because of loyalty to the clan, but for other reasons: you're more likely to agree with the tenets of a clan you are already a member of, so you'd tend to look for a new liege there. You're more likely to know other lords who might want to take you on. And it's far easier to seek out lords that are already living close to you rather than go to the other side of Rokugan to have a look. And so on.
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