ninja_penguin
2010-12-28, 10:48 PM
Even money on if this is homebrew or just Roleplaying games in general, so I guess I'll pitch it here.
So me and another guy in our gaming group were both talking about how we've always wanted to try out the L5R system, but nobody in our group was really big on it. one guy irrationally hates anything 'Japanese', and the others probably would not be able to get into a good samurai mindset.
Cue conversation the other day where we were jokingly comparing the houses of Rokugan to the houses of Westeros from A Game of Thrones. We then got the idea that we could port over the majority of the mechanics over and just reflavor everything in a Westeros manner.
So I was curious for people who are familiar with either (or both) about which houses would work best for being an analogue. We're planning to set this up as during the war against the Targaryens that happens before the books, so we can mess with causality and handwave why people from various houses might be working together.
Stark: Crab or Lion. They're high honor, but I think that their duty and wall duties would put them more on the Crab end of things.
Greyjoy: Torn between Mantis and Crab. Mantis because boats, Crab due to general rudeness/borderline barbaric behavior.
Lannister: I'm thinking that they're going to be the Scorpion. They just are too cunning and making plans all the time to really be anything else.
Targaryen: Well, I think that they're weird/mysterious, so I was leaning Dragon or Phoenix for them. I don't know which one would fit them better, thematically.
Baratheon: I feel like these guys should probably end up being the Lion, especially if the Stark end up being the Crab.
Martell: Probably crane. good at political manipulation, and dueling.
Unicorn are up in the air. Everybody went 'oh, those are the Dothraki', but we also have to think about possibly moving them into other places because people in Westeros actually use horses frequently.
Thoughts? Better ideas? Minor clans I should take a look at including?
So me and another guy in our gaming group were both talking about how we've always wanted to try out the L5R system, but nobody in our group was really big on it. one guy irrationally hates anything 'Japanese', and the others probably would not be able to get into a good samurai mindset.
Cue conversation the other day where we were jokingly comparing the houses of Rokugan to the houses of Westeros from A Game of Thrones. We then got the idea that we could port over the majority of the mechanics over and just reflavor everything in a Westeros manner.
So I was curious for people who are familiar with either (or both) about which houses would work best for being an analogue. We're planning to set this up as during the war against the Targaryens that happens before the books, so we can mess with causality and handwave why people from various houses might be working together.
Stark: Crab or Lion. They're high honor, but I think that their duty and wall duties would put them more on the Crab end of things.
Greyjoy: Torn between Mantis and Crab. Mantis because boats, Crab due to general rudeness/borderline barbaric behavior.
Lannister: I'm thinking that they're going to be the Scorpion. They just are too cunning and making plans all the time to really be anything else.
Targaryen: Well, I think that they're weird/mysterious, so I was leaning Dragon or Phoenix for them. I don't know which one would fit them better, thematically.
Baratheon: I feel like these guys should probably end up being the Lion, especially if the Stark end up being the Crab.
Martell: Probably crane. good at political manipulation, and dueling.
Unicorn are up in the air. Everybody went 'oh, those are the Dothraki', but we also have to think about possibly moving them into other places because people in Westeros actually use horses frequently.
Thoughts? Better ideas? Minor clans I should take a look at including?