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Summary: Good, but no FR
Review: This is a good campaign setting. Great monsters, classes and prestige classes. They should have had more about places like FR. Luke doesn't seem to ralize that this is a game, not a history book. It is not supposed to be Japan.
Rating: 
Summary: Great!
Review: Thorough, self contained, practical, unique and entertaining... this book does everything you would expect it to... highly recommended.
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Summary: OA Disappointment
Review: Was very disappointed that publisher chose to focus on Legend of Five Rings as baseline setting, too much emphsis on Japanese composition and culture to the book as opposed the the current interest in Chinese/Wuxia type of oriental adventures popular in movies now such as Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, Iron Monkey, etc. The pubisher mentions drawing upon material in a net-available Chinese/Wuxia game system called "DragonFist", however, whatever game mechanics were drawn from that system are lost in the heavily Japanese influenced approach to this book. In summary, for price of the book being asked for, the publisher should have balanced the book to support both Japanese and Chinese based adventure gaming to make it appropriate to both Japanese and Chinese cultures and left the Legend of the Five Rings out as a campaign supplement much the same as Forgotten Realms has been created separately as a campaign world.
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Summary: Kara Tur? Rokugan?
Review: Well, I feel that this book is fairly good, but not "worth every penny". It is a bit expensive, but what you get is fairly good. Perhaps all the new accessories have too much new spells, new monsters and I'd rather get more ideas, suggestions and adventures. Anyway, this book has some of those.
About the Kara-Tur and Rokugan discussion, I feel it doesn't really matter. I believe that using Rokugan as the featured campaign world is just a marketing move to attract Leyend of the Five Rings players, but anyway it is a not-too-bad world.
The presentation is, as 3rd edition books are getting us used to, really good. My puntuation is a 4 instead of a 5 because I feel it is not overly complete... seems like it lacks something to make it as a "glue", and some details could be worked on.
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Summary: What happened to Kara-tur???
Review: When I first saw this book I thought "Wow, I hope it is better than the original" And I must say that I'm dissapointed...The book is beautiful, but ¿where is kara-tur?... If you ask James Wyatt, he'll say that this is a sourcebook for any world in third edition, and that it is "NOT" an expansion to the legend of the five rings... that isn't good enough to explain the tons of feats and other things that work EXCLUSIVELY in Rokugan. Besides, many of the things from the original Oriental adventures where changed for bad, I completely refuse to call the SHUKENJA a Shaman, since it is his name in TLOTFR not in orient. There is one more thing I don't like about this book and is the little grattitude towards my Friend "Dragonfist" (a free game you can download from Wizards, try it out), a project that after being dumped by them, was taken just to copy a lot (and I mean a lot) of spells and feats as I have seen so far. James gives no grattitude to this old (and very good too) project. The good part of the book is that it would let you play Oriental adventures in third edition (not in Forgotten where Kara-tur is located), excuse me, I meant Rokugan, but if you erase Half of the feats, the clans and other minor thing as the example campaing included in the book, Then, as James says, this can be played in any world... So, you can buy this book if you have any world, but I highly recomend you to take a look on the rules before applying them, the book is good and is the only oriental expansion for "third edition", I recomend it to carful masters
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