Legend of the Five Rings, known as L5R, is an out-of-print collectible card game created in 1995 by a joint venture featuring Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA. It was published until 2015, when it was announced that it would be discontinued in favor of a rules-incompatible successor in Fantasy Flight Games' Living Card Game line. The game takes place in the fictional empire of Rokugan, where clans and factions vie for domination. It shares some similarities with Magic: The Gathering but has its own mechanics, including passive win conditions such as the Enlightenment Victory, and gives great importance to an ongoing storyline advanced by weekly fiction and tournament results.
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Playing Time Band Skill or Luck Age Suitability Classification
Player Count Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Player CountLarge Group or Variable 1 Sport
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Source Clan War (source article)
Source Legend of the Burning Sands (Wikipedia)
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1. Legend of the Five Rings (collectible card game) (Wikipedia)
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2-8
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1 hour
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Some
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14+
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created by a joint venture featuring Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA in 1995
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is an out-of-print collectible card game
View the SourceClan War (source article)
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A fantasy Miniatures game based on Legend of the Five Rings
Legend of the Burning Sands (Wikipedia)
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It was a spin-off from the earlier CCG Legend of the Five Rings.
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