From what he could gather he challenged the executioner because a vagrant was being put to the blade. The reason for the execution, from what he could gather, was because the man tripped into a person that was high up the social ladder. If that was a crime that was enforced everywhere then Ted would already be dead
It's not that it's a "crime" so much as that the peasant has no rights.
Tokugawa era legal system:
"In fact samurai had the right to kill any peasant at will who had offended them."
Crime and punishment in medieval Japan
"In medieval Japan, there was not even a pretense of equal justice for all. Civil rights didn’t exist."
"The samurai, who were the ruling class, enjoyed many privileges. They could kill a peasant to test a new sword and walk away."
Japanese history
"Samurai warriors could and would execute peasants for any reason."
executioner
Incidentally, he's not an executioner. He is samurai. Calling him an executioner would be an insult worse than calling him a peasant.
There is Bushido, and then there is a further sense of personal honor that may go above and beyond that.
If Ted feels that it is unjust to kill a peasant for such a small slight, and that it would be dishonorable to stand by and do nothing while such an unjust act takes place, then he is, arguably, being honorable regardless of what the ~~real japanese~~ law says. Especially since that law, I might remind you, may not even exist in our setting. Since we are, I will remind you again, not using the real world. Whoa.
Holy shit. I'm sure that's a mindfuck for you.And if he's executing someone then he is, by very definition of the word, an executioner.
Since I'm already on a roll here, I'm going to just reply to your PM as well:
In the character creation post, you mentioned builds up to 120 starting xp. I didn't precisely count in the revision, but I'm pretty sure I was way under the limit.
If you had read that section of the post, which I'm guessing you did not, you would have also seen that you were asked to wait before statting up your character so that you could be informed as to whether you even
had starting exp over 40. You clearly didn't read anything in the OP posts, however because...
From your response after my first character submission I was under the impression you weren't too concerned about the math, so I stripped all status and glory modifiers, removed the status bonus from the Imperial Spouse advantage and simply assigned these things based on background by looking at the chart of page 97 of the manual. An "average" imperial family samurai has a status of 3. I thought that was a pretty fair comparative given her background.
If you had, you'd know that I was only ignoring the L5R flavor and that I was
not ignoring any aspect of the mechanics. So you would still have to start with Status and Glory 1, without advantages effecting them or GM fiat which you totally didn't wait for.
Of course,
Based on them how? The original character was a Dragon/Kitsuki, but you asked me to customize these. With all the flavor stripped, the skills, background and technique changed, only a single skill emphasis rather than two and no investigator skill at all...the only thing she still has in common with Kitsuki is that she happens to be a courtier. There are plenty of other family/school combinations that start with 6.5 honor. Kakita Bushi, Jodi Courtier, Asahina Shugenja, Daidoh warrior, etc.
You seem to think that being given permission to change a L5R school's flavor also gives you permission to alter some other things without discussing it with me first. In the case of your changes to skills, that's pretty much A-Ok. However as far as honor goes, and you decided to pick a fight over it here even though I said it was OK, you should have asked.
If it's really an issue I can add those things back in, replace the status and glory advantages that were in the original character submission...but since this is a completely custom clan and family and the nature of the imperial family that we have is different from canon...upon what are we basing the starting points? I chose values that I thought were reasonable based on her background from looking at the descriptions of those values in the manual. What's the point of arbitrarily assigning starting values that are lower than would be expected for the clan/family/character background and then using advantages to bring them back up?
Do that.
You have 40 exp, barring bonuses from disadvantages. Your school is as described in the post listing schools on the IC thread, complete with the 6.5 Honor you so desire. If you want higher glory or status, you need to either earn it through play or buy the relevant advantages.
And one last thing:
You are not the GM, do not presume to tell other players what they can and cannot do within the setting.
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