This book offers new ways of playing in Rokugan without being a Clan Samurai. It also offers new techniques, advantages and disadvantages and guidelines to creating your own school. My only caveat is that I feel this book could have been released later down the line considering we still have so much more pressing stuff like better rules for mass combat and fleshing out monks.

This is the perfect book for those looking for an unconventional character in L5R 5th ed. With many new options for ronin characters, it also includes information regarding gaijin. So, if you want your character to have a very uncomfortable life, this book shows the path. That said, it does also provide information on a few new locations on the map where ronin are a bit more accepted, for when the going gets too hard.