So here's a summation of the various rulings that have been made about Iaijutsu duels in the 4Ed L5R RPG game (drawn from the Alderac forums supporting the game Errata and Rules Questions). Trying to get it all into one place rather than spread across the morass of the errata topic. Excuse the American spelling from the cut/paste.
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Its an odd idea that I came up with and I think a lot of the credit for this needs to go to the designers that came up with the original Chaosium house system. I remember something like this from Stormbringer (IIRC) and sadly do not have a copy of the original game to refer to and check (donations welcome!)

The essence of the idea is to remove the ( ( Read more... )