(Message l5r:9)
Subj: L5R Test
From: bak6@po.CWRU.Edu (Brent A. Keith)

  To: l5rinfo@frpg.com
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:24:40 EDT
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In a random moment of silliness after looking through the Hacker Test,
this came out...


The L5R Test

Keep track of the number of questions which you answer with a "Yes".


Clan:

1. Can you name all the clans?
2. ...and give the proper name of each stronghold?

3. Do you have a favorite clan?
4. Is the mon tattooed somewhere on your body?

5. Do you play at least 2 clans?
6. ...4 clans?
7. ...all of them?

Have you won games with at least:
8. ...one clan?
9. ...2 clans?
10. ...4 clans?
11. ...every clan?
12. ...every stronghold?


Play History:

Have you been playing since:
13. ...Dark Journey Home?
14. ...Jade Edition?
15. ...Obsidian Edition?
16. ...Emerald Edition?
17. ...Imperial Edition?
18. ...Pre-Release Promos at GenCon?
19. ...Back when it was still being designed?

20. Do you remember more than one version of the Foo rule?
21. ...More than 2?
22. ...more than 4?

23. Have you played a game that lasted more than one hour?
24. ...more than 2?
25. ...more than 4?

26. Have you taught anyone how to play?  (If your answer is no, get to work
on changing that!)

Have you played:
27. ...Clan War?
28. ...Legend of the Burning Sands?
29. ...the L5R Role Playing Game?
30. ...any L5R drinking game?
31. ...strip L5R?

Cheese:

32. Have you played a non-cheese deck?
33. Have you beaten a cheese deck with a non-cheese deck?
34. Do you construct decks just to hose cheesemongers?
35. Have you played an unpopular clan?
36. Did you stop playing when it became too popular?
37. Have you started playing a clan after they left the limelight?
38. Have you won a tournament with a clan everyone thought couldn't win? 
(i.e. Lion in Jade, Monk in any format)


WOTC:

39. Did you play Magic before starting L5R?
40. Were you concerned when WotC bought FRPG?
41. Did you threaten to quit when the DCI started handling tournaments?
42. Are you the Lion Clan Fallen Prophet?   (No offense, Allen! ;)

43. Can you explain the whole setup and relationships of AEG/WotC/FRPG?
44. Could you do so before WotC bought FRPG?


Play Style:

45. Do you play one on one games?
46. ... multiplayer games?

47. Have you ever been in a game with one person for each existing clan?

In one on one play, have you won by:
48. ...military?
49. ...honor?
50. ...enlightenment?
51. ...Dashmar?
52. ...The 38th Hantei Falls?
53. ...The Darkest Magics?
54. ...dishonour?
55. ...Doom of Fu Leng?
56. ...Designer Wins?

In multiplayer, have you won by:
57. ...military?
58. ...honor?
59. ...enlightenment?
60. ...Dashmar?
61. ...The 38th Hantei Falls?
62. ...The Darkest Magics?
63. ...dishonour? (at least half of the opponants eleminated this way)
64. ...Doom of Fu Leng? (at least half of the opponants eleminated this
way)65. ...Designer Wins?

66. Have you ever won when someone else's event triggered?  (i.e. Evil
Feeds destroying its player's last province)

67. Have you ever had more than 100 honor?
68. ...and still lost?

69. Have you ever been beneath -100 honor?
70. ...and still won?

71. Have you used a Seven Thunders deck?

72. Have you won with enlightenment using Junzo or Scorpion?

73. Have you won with Honor or Dashmar using Junzo?

74. Have you ever had more than 10 provinces, using normal rules?

75. Have you ever had more than one copy of a ring in play, legally?

Card Collections:

76. Do you own any cards?

77. Does your card collection number at least two digits? (i.e. more than
10 cards)
78. ...at least 3?
79. ...at least 4?
80. ...at least 5?
81. ...at least 6!?!?!

Do you have:
82. ...cards from each expansion? (non-promo)
83. ...one of each card from any expansion?
84. ...from all expansions?

85. ...a full playset (3 of each non-unique, one of each unique) from any
expansion?86. ...from all expansions?

87. ...all of the Imperial Assembly cards?
88. ...at least three of all the non-unique IA cards?

89. ...any of the pre-Imperial promo cards?
90. ...that have changed since then?  (i.e. Matsu Turi, Frenzy with a
larger bonus for Crab)
91. ...Designer Wins?
92. ...signed by everyone in the picture?


Imperial Assembly:

93. Are you a member?
94. Have you been one for more than a year?
95. More than two?
96. Since the first issue?

97. Are you registered for more than one clan?

98. Are you registered for LBS as well?


Internet:

99. Are you on any of the FRPG L5R listservers? (l5rinfo, l5rstory,
l5rtrades, etc.)
100. ...more than 1?

101. Have you ever posted?
102. ...at least once a month?
103. ...at least once a week?
104. ...daily?

105. Do you killfile people who include attachments, or merely say "Me,
too!"?
106. Do you read rec.games.trading-card.misc?

107. Do you read Zen's Card of the Week?
108. Have you written any of the articles for ZCotW?

109. Is Hitomi/Toturi/(fill in favorite character here) evil?

110. Have you figured out your L5R code?

111. Do you check any L5R web pages on a regular basis?

112. Do you have an L5R related web page?
113. Is it one people check regularly?
114. Is it an official clan site?

115. Are you on a clan listserver?
116. ...more than one?
117. ...all of the clans?

118. Have you contributed to the discussions on all the clan listservers
you are on?

Tournaments:

Have you ever:
119. ...played in a tournament?
120. ...won a tournament?
121. ...with at least thirty people present?
122. ...with more than 100 people present?

123. ...won a multiplayer tournament?

124. ...won a storyline tournament?
125. ...won a storyline tournament with a "second rate" clan?
126. ...affected the storyline in a tournament despite not winning?

127. ...played Strategic L5R?
128. ...been on a winning team?


Cards Used:

Have you ever used:
129. ...Kokujin's soul eating ability?
130. ...on a Thunder?

131. ...Strategic Victory?
132. ...Occupied Terrain?
133. ...Sanzo?
134. ...Ashlim's ability?

Contributions:

135. Have you ever sent in a card idea, artwork, or material for the
Imperial Herald?
136. Have any of your card ideas or art been used?
137. Have you had anything published in the Herald?

138. Are you an Ambassador?
139. Do you playtest?

140. Have you taught anyone how to play?  (Yes, this question has been
asked before.  It's important.)

141. Has a question of yours been included in the FAQ?
142. Has a question of yours ever caused a change in the rule book?

Cons/FRPG/AEG:

143. Have you played in an L5R LARP at a con?

144. Have you manned an AEG or FRPG booth at a con for L5R, or run an L5R
tournament at a con?

145. If you saw an FRPG or AEG staff member on the street, would you
recognize them?
146. Would they recognize you?
147. Would they try to avoid you?


Toku:
148. Have you ever used Toku in a deck with no Oni that was not Toturi's
Army ?

149. Have you ever destroyed a province with Toku as the only personality?

150. Does Toku stay crispy in milk?


Ratings:

Count the number of "yes" answers, and compare to the chart below:

0-10 	Ashigaru	- Welcome to Legend of the Five Rings!

11-50 	Nikutai		- Ah, young Grasshopper, you have much to learn.

51-75	Gunso		- Your experiance is showing

76-100 	Chui		- You are wise in the ways of warfare.

101-120 Daimyo		- How do you have time to work for a living?

121-145 Shogun		- So, how's life in Southern California? ;}

146-150	Honorless Dog	- You're making up answers now.  Stop it.


Shosho
Mercenary & Mujina Wrangler, Marmoset Clan
"Testing...1...2...3..."


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