Hida War College: Hida Bushi

Reprinted w/out permission from L5R RPG

Benefit: +1 Stamina

Beginning Honor: 1 + 5 boxes

Outfit

  

(All items are of average quality)

arrows (20 any type), bow, katana, wakizashi, any 2 weapons, heavy armor, helm, kimono, traveling pack, 5 koku

Skills

Archery, Battle, Defense, Kenjutsu, Lore: Shadowlands, Subojutsu

Techniques

Rank 1

  

The bushi begins by learning how to tap into his own Earth energy. Every time the bushi rolls to hit and damage, he adds his Earth to the total of the roll. Also, because Crab bushi training is always done in full armor, they can ignore the penalties other bushi suffer from wearing Full Armor.

Rank 2

  

At this Rank, the bushi learns the secret of true resilience. Once a day, the bushi may spend a Void Point to make a simple Earth roll at TN 20 to ignore all damage from a single hit.

Rank 3

  

At this Rank, the bushi has learned how to make two attacks per turn.

Rank 4

  

There are times in Rokugan when the Earth rages. At this Rank, the bushi learns how to tap into that energy. At the beginning of each turn, the bushi may choose to sacrifice 3 Wound Points to keep an additional die to hit or damage until the end of the turn.

Rank 5

  

The bushi may now spend a Void Point at the beginning of a turn to make a single action, even if he cannot due to Wound Rank (Down, Out, or Dead). The bushi can continue to make a single action per turn as long as he has Void Points to spend.