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This page authored by Zen Faulkes!
Crab Clan • Scholar
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If you have found this page useful, donations of any extra copies of Hida Kaoru or Hida O-Ushi that you may have gratefully accepted!
Checklists: Honor's Veil checklist is up, as is Samurai Edition: Banzai, and a big update to the Samurai promos checklist.
Now available for downloading in one Zip archive.
Intro for Newbies: Updated December 2004.
Easter Eggs: "Did you notice...?" and "Did you know...?" bits in L5R card art.
The Artist Page: Links for as many L5R artists as I could find. Artist credits can be found in the checklists.
World Championship results: A listing of the players, clans and more who finished at the top of the biggest event L5R has to offer.Clan War Saga foil subset: Flavour text and checklist of chase cards in Honor Bound, Ambition's Debt, and Fire & Shadow.
Ronin: The L5R game you never saw.
Button Men: Information about all the L5R Button Men!
"0 banned. 0 restricted.": L5R's most memorable ad -- if the number of times people (mis)quote it is any indication. See for yourself what it said. You might be surprised.
Rolling Thunder: Ryan Dancey's and Luke Peterschmidt's thoughts on what went right and what went wrong.
John Wick's notes: Tidbits from John Wick about the evolution of the Clan War storyline.
Kisada's Wake: A description of certain events that transpired during GenCon 1998. Originally posted to the l5rstory discussion list. May 1999.
Card ideas: A simple little page describing how to submit your ideas for L5R cards.
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ShortURL.com: The kind folks who took my impossible to remember website and gave it an easy to remember name.
Omens and Visions: A sibling site dedicated to Legend of the Burning Sands.

Legend of the Five Rings: The corporate page for the Legend of the Five Rings collectable card game and role-playing game.
Asmodée: L5R en français. If your French is a bit rusty, try having the pages translated by Babel Fish.
Wizards of the Coast: Former publishers of the trading card game and publishers of L5R novels. The Crab novel was penned by first time author Stan! His series of essays on writing The Crab are well worth reading.
Yahoo groups: Home to many L5R discussion lists, including one for Crab.
InQuest Gamer: I wrote for IQ Gamer many times over the years.
Flying Tricycle: Source of the most popular honor counters for L5R, and other gaming goodies too.
Khalsa Brain Games: Makers of a very snazzy L5R playmat, featuring original art by the inimitable Brian Snoddy.
Java's Crypt: Makers of sterling silver L5R jewelry.
Hammerdog Games: The makers of the coolest tokens, Imajewels, available in your clan mon.

Button Men: A great little dice game. There's been a L5R set, and a Samurai set using mechanics like those used for the L5R characters.