Legend of the Five Rings: Second Edition: Game Master's Guide was the Game Master's core rulebook for Second Edition of the Legend of the Five Rings roleplaying game.
Contents[]
Chapter One: Void (page 6)[]
- Fiction "Hiruma's Breath", with Hiruma Sumiko, Hiruma Eikihiro, and Zenkai no Oni.
- Mythic Histories
- The Ancient Time
- The Age of Myth
- The Thousand Years of Peace
- True Histories
- Rokugani Histories
- Famous Battles
- The First Day of Thunder
- The Lion-Phoenix Conflict
- The Battle of Three Stone River
- Victory With No Strike
- The First War
- The Battle of Raging Seas
- The Battle of White Stag
- The Battle of Stolen Graves
- The Battle of Tidal Landbridge
- The Fall of Hiruma Castle
- The Battle of the Cresting Wave
- The Battle of Sleeping River
- The Battle of the Bloody Retreat
- Return of the Ki-Rin
- Seven Day Battle Plain
- The Lion-Crane War
- The Battle on the Plains of Gaiju Shindai
- The Battle of the Forgotten Tide
- The Scorpion Coup
- Cities and Villages
- Regions of the Empire
Chapter Two: Within (page 60)[]
- Fiction "No Heroes", with Miya Yumi, Miya Satoshi, Miya Yoto, Koan, and Sanzo.
- The Empire
- Training and Apprentices
- Diplomacy
- The Chambers of Court
- Approximate Glory Ratings
- Natural Disasters
- The Wasting Disease
- Armor and Weapons
- Religion
- Sensing and Countering Magic
- Spell Research
- Advanced Schools
- The Minor Clans
- Yoritomo's Alliance
- The Tortoise
- The Wasp
- The Sparrow
- The Centipede
- GM Clan Material
- Normal Creatures
Chapter Three: Without (page 114)[]
- Fiction "A Restless Dawn", with Hida Kisada and his son Hida Yakamo, devising the invasion of the Asahina lands.
- The Shadowlands
- Maho
- The Element of Corruption
- The Dark Way
- Game-Mastering a Maho-tsukai
- Maho Mechanics
- Maho spells
- The Bloodspeakers
- Fu Leng's Realm
- Creatures
- The Living Darkness
- The Beginning
- The Scorpion Connection
- Goju
- Ninja
- The Powers of the Darkness
- The Lying Darkness
- Shadow Points
- The Darkness and Your PCs
- Touched By the Darkness
- The Darkness in Your Game
Chapter Four: Bushido (page 152)[]
- How To Run an L5R Campaign
- Adventure Themes
- Experience
- Using NPCs
- Adventure Ideas: Skills
- Skills
- High Skills
- The Sins of Lord Bumikari
- The Gift
- Low Skills
- Adventure Ideas: Advantages
- Adventure Ideas: Disadvantages
- The GM's Grab Bag
- The Haunting of Usagi Castle (Introductory Adventure)
- Synopsis
- Game Master Notes
- Ryoko Owari
- The Assignment
- Investigating the Ruins
- Resolution
- Who's Who
- The Inquisitors
- I'm Haunted!
Appendix: All and Nothing (page 216)[]
- Charts
- Items and Trinkets
- Interesting NPCs
- Encounters
- Events
- The Shadowlands
- Creating Oni
- Bandit Creation Table
- Mastery Levels of Previously Published Spells
- The Battle Table
- Character Option Compilation - Skills
- Character Option Compilation - Advantages
- Character Option Compilation - Disadvantages
- Notes for Character Option Compilation
- Index