Brand Manager, Legend of the Five Rings

As we stand on the threshold of the 2009 Kotei Season, there is a new reason to attend each tournament within reach. The Celestial Edition Mega Game commences this October, and the results of this year’s Kotei tournaments will impact how the Mega Game plays out in subtle and various ways. Each victory for your clan may move you one step closer to surviving the trials ahead, if you are canny. Each opportunity lost may cost you dearly if compounded by foolish choice.

But now the 2009 Kotei Season… Continue

A new year has dawned for Legend of the Five Rings, and 2009 will be like no other you have taken part in. At AEG, we’ve been scrutinizing what we do, and most of all at what we believe we could do better. Looking back over the last fourteen years, and as we look forward to many more, we saw that we had convinced ourselves of certain things, of sacrosanct themes and traditions and tropes that we felt could n… Continue

Well, it's a new year and that means time for resolutions, right? Ok, here are mine.

#1. Get Art of War out. Yeah, yeah, we've had problems, some in our control, some out of our control, but very soon I plan to get in there swinging elbows and make this thing hit the store shelves. It's just too good of a product. And with the Race out of the way I can focus on it.

#2. Get Death at Koten in every comic shop possible. We're already doing a variant cover for comic stores, so there's a reason to… Continue

So some people were surprised to see this pop up. The fact is this is something I've wanted to do for L5R for quite a while. We have a group on Facebook, and many Clans have active to semi-active MySpace accounts, but as the Brand Manager I've always felt this was the direction to go in reaching out to new people. Of course, things like the Race, day to day work, etc. have made doing new things like this difficult. But if I don't start it it won't get done, so here it is.

All I can say is thank… Continue