Errata and Reminders

[Canary]

Skills
Skills marked Limited must be well-justified in your backstory as to how and why you have them.

Iaijutsu
Add the "Strike" emphasis, which applies to the Iaijutsu/Reflexes roll made during the Strike phase of an Iaijutsu duel.

Medicine
The Antidote emphasis is required to treat poisons. The Disease emphasis is required to treat diseases. The Herbalism emphasis allows a character to make Medicine Skill Rolls without requiring the use of a Medicine Kit, provided that they have access to a medicinal garden or other well vegetated area. The Non-Human emphasis is required to treat members of races different from your own, and must be purchased separately for each such race.

Meditation
Characters may not Meditate in Event threads, and may not Meditate more than once per non-Event thread.

Ninjutsu
The Ninja-to may be used with either the Ninjutsu skill or the Kenjutsu skill.

Spellcraft
Characters may not Importune for spells during Event threads. Known spells as noted below in the Spells section are exempted from this.


Advantages
Reductions for advantage cost for tribe and school type do not stack. The same goes for disadvantages and the amount of xp you get for them.

Allies
You may purchase allies at Influence 3 (not just 1, 2, and 4).

Dangerous Beauty
The bonus to Temptation provided by the Dangerous Beauty advantage applies regardless of gender or sexual preference.

Inheritance
If you take Inheritance (Iaijutsu), the bonus only applies to Iaijutsu rolls made during the Assessment and Focus phases, and not the Strike phase.

Multiple Schools
You do not need the Multiple Schools advantage to learn a ronin path. If you only possess Ronin paths, you do not need Multiple Schools to move from a ronin path to one of your Clan's schools.

Sage
The Sage advantage does not provide ranks in Lore skills that are gained through the Forbidden Lore advantages, which is Lying Darkness only in this setting.

Seven Fortunes' Blessing (Benten)
This advantage only applies to Courtier, Etiquette, and Sincerity Skill Rolls. This only applies when you are trying to convince someone.


Disadvantages
Consumed (Perfection)
Possessing no ranks in a skill does not prevent you from calling the Raise required by this disadvantage.

Contrary
The TN of the Willpower roll is always 20.

Touch of the Void
If you are spending a Void Point to enhance a roll of any type, you make the check to see whether or not you are Dazed before you make the enhanced roll.


Equipment
Arrows
When purchasing arrows for your character, change all prices in bu to zeni. If you have a bow in your starting package, you may begin the game with ten arrows of any type.


Shugenja and Spells
The Void Mystic does not have a limited spell range, nor do they need a verbal component for spells, as noted in the spell description. They do still need to deal wounds to themselves per Pure Blood Magic (IH pg. 37).

The Ronin Shugenja School may gains spells on increasing Insight Rank.

Pure Blood Magic does not use scrolls, since they are not making prayers to the Kami. Instead, the spells they know, they are functionally using blood to "fast importune" them. If characters have spent XP to memorize spells, they may get that refunded to spend on other things.

Mental Quickness
Change the spell's Area of Effect to "One target" and its text to the following: "The target's Intelligence Trait increases by 1 for the duration of the spell." Add the following: "Raises: Increase Intelligence (+1 per 2 Raises)."

Path to Inner Peace
If stored in a character with Silent Waters, this spell heals wounds equal to the Insight Rank of the caster (including affinities and deficiencies) multiplied by their Water Ring.

Silent Waters
Add this line: "The stored spell consumes one of your spell slots of the appropriate element until it is cast (at which point the character may rest to recover the expended spell slot as normal)."

[Canary]

Once you hit the edge of the Shadowlands (you will know when it happens), any jade will deteriorate at 1/7 of a finger per day. Please keep track of this if you have jade. It adds +10 to your rolls to resist taint.

Please make sure you seek GM approval and have good reason to have it if you brought some.