April Updates: New Art, Errata, Icons, and CR2 Previews!

Hello, all. We hope you're enjoying Shattered Empire Edition, and we appreciate all the positive feedback we've been getting from everyone. We have a few things to address for this month. First, we have the unpleasant but necessary business of a few errata that are need, specifically four, in order to allow these cards to function as intended.

With Shao, this is a change intended to clamp down on some unintended issues related to how he gains Force, both in existing cards and in future cards in development for later sets. Shao's ability now no longer allows him to do things like stack force bonuses for possibly infinite durations in certain cases.

Asceticism, unfortunately, as originally printed, technically did nothing, as the ability itself cannot "cost more" because it "costs" whatever you pay for it, and the attachment doesn't even enter into the equation until after you've paid. This will correct it to its stated, always intended function.

in the case of Ill Tides, an omitted 'target' was added to the Battle action.

Sawako was mostly an oversight. Her ability was erroneously left as a Response when in fact it should be a trait, as you cannot take a Response to a Response, so her ability currently does not function as intended with other Kitsune.

Next, we have several new art pieces by many generous artists for cards from older sets that we are happy to debut here for you all now. These will all be available in the Community Contributed Art section of our Drive. You will also find them in newly uploaded updated versions of RoJ, RtR, RoU, GS, CRI, and GoT, now all with added Icons to match those in ShE and all future Onyx Lives sets.

Speaking of community contributions, we thought we would end this update with a couple of previews of cards for the next expansion, Chaos Reigns, Part II. CRII turns attention back to Rokugan after the Colonies themed previous expansion, focusing on Kano's Alliance and their struggles against the the so-called "Hantei XL".

Look for CRII to begin its preview cycle towards the end of May, for an early June release, to allow plenty of time for those interested in attending our event at this year's GenCon to get in sufficient testing. Thank you all again for your continued support!