Game: Legend of the Five Rings (first edition – Alderac Entertainment Group, 1997)
My Experience: I’ve been hanging out in Rokugan since my junior year of college, when the hall director saw some of us playing Magic: The Gathering in the third floor lounge of Holmes Hall. He remarked that his buddy, John Zinser, was involved with a company that was bringing some new card game to market. I was hooked as soon as the first free samples showed up. A couple of years later, the RPG set in the same universe released, and the Louisville Gaming Mafia engaged with it pretty much immediately. I’ve run or played each of the four editions AEG put out and it remains one of my go-to systems and settings.