Yeah, I've read the setting. I expect they'll drag along a peasant for that sort of work.Not only be respectful of the culture (not mocking real world), but attempt to understand it. Many players will take wrong actions not on purpose, but because they did not understand some key facts of the setting.
For example, it is common in a fantasy game to loot corpses. That is unthinkable to Rokugani. Only touching something dead is taboo. Gravediggers, undertakers, and the like are social outcasts because someone has to take such services, but that does not make them any less of an outcast.
This is only an example of many. So firstly understand the culture and setting is very important.
Even for a peasant is taboo... People touching a corpse are pariah and no one, not even peasants approach them. There is a special dragon magistrate school that is as a "CSI forensics" and they have special permission to touch corpses because they know special cleaning rituals to purify themselves after that. But even this school is frowned by other samurai. "See, he touches corpses!"Yeah, I've read the setting. I expect they'll drag along a peasant for that sort of work.
I figure I'll tone that one down quite a bit. It doesn't add anything, and how would people know? Seems rather silly.Even for a peasant is taboo... People touching a corpse are pariah and no one, not even peasants approach them. There is a special dragon magistrate school that is as a "CSI forensics" and they have special permission to touch corpses because they know special cleaning rituals to purify themselves after that. But even this school is frowned by other samurai. "See, he touches corpses!"
Yeah, I read the setting.Anyway, what I mean as an advice, is that L5R is not your regular medieval fantasy game, just placed on Far East. Some troupes do not work in the setting and looting is one of them. No loot. No kill them for stuff. And, to other thing, no individualism. Rokugani culture is about to know his place in the celestial order, and that means you do what your family needs, not what you need. It is not the tale of adventures freeing themselves from the constraints of society, but, quite au contraire, of samurai people learning to do what they must, not what they want.