Gifts for your hosts are always appropriate.
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Tattooed Monks don't normally act as champions in formal duels though - most don't even know how to use a katana properly to begin with. If the couple doesn't mind, it's all good. That said, if a monk believes his path is to look after a couple of soon to be newlyweds nobody's going to think that's odd - or rather, it's the sort of odd that isn't odd for a Tattooed Monk, they are known to have some batty notions. Tattooed Monks are not samurai (unless they are part of the Togashi bloodline, but even then they don't really act as normal samurai do).
There are waystations along major roads, inns typically will be part of a settlement (it's a lot easier to provide for your guests if there's a local village you can get common supplies from). Really swanky places will only serve those with sufficient means, but generally speaking inns serve both samurai and peasants - samurai getting preferential service, of course. Travelling samurai will stay at inns if they are available, yes. I would be really glad, if you guys could help me with these questions - I don't want to make too many mistakes regarding the setting! There will already be enough of them, I fear. Last one for this post: When the group meets the local governor (probably the uncle of our Doji Diplomat, not sure yet), who invited them, do they still need to give him a gift, even if they already know him/have met him before/are family? Maybe it would be appropiate, since they are going to enjoy his hospitality for at least a few days if not longer? What about the yojimbos, would they be expected to bring gifts of their own or do they not really count as "individual guests" (since they are just there because they have to protect the other two characters) and are thus freed from this obligation? So, could such a monk be assigned the task of acting as a yojimbo, at least for a short time, or would this be totally impossible? And, related to this question, would a Tattooed Order Monk be allowed to be the champion of her charge in a duel or are they not allowed to participate in a duel ever? Our group consists of two betrothed characters (a courtier and a shugenja) on their way to meet each other and my idea was, that the other two characters could be their yojimbos (it would fit clan-wise), but one of them is a Togashi Tattooed Monk. I want my players to have a familiar location for the first meeting of their characters, so my first question is, whether it is logical for samurai in Rokugan to sleep in some kind of inn (are there inns along the roads or just in towns/villages?), repectively whether there are inns just for samurai or if they would also rest in an inn, which also serves peasants? I'm gonna start with a few questions regarding the beginning of our session (and will probably post other questions later on this forum).
Hi guys, I've been lurking around on this forum for quite a while, since I'm really intrigued by L5R and "convinced" my group to give it a try! I'm completely new to L5R (apart from the Rule Book, I got all my info about it from this forum and a few wiki pages^^), so naturally I've got a few questions, both about the setting and the rules.