Pointless leads to Jinju setting

[Verrain]

OK, maybe someone out there with sharper eyes or the HQ staff once they are back from GenCon can answer this one.

There are a few lifepaths such as Lazy Stayabout and Shepard to name two that have a lead to the Jinju setting. However, all of the Jinju lifepaths require you to take Novice Kannushi or Miko and both lifepaths say that it must be your second lifepath if you are to take it.

So these leads appear to be completely decorative. Anyone have any insights?

[Yagathai]

I posted something related to this topic on the errata thread, and was threatened with banning. Look out, Verrain!

[Verrain]

That's why I didn't post it in the errata thread. Here it is an honest question. :) The main reason I asked is because I like the imagery of a shepherd on the hills with a lot of time on his hands to think about things just drifting into the priesthood. If it can be done, I'd like to do it! Not sure what it means that the Lazy Stayabout could drift in there though. I guess dealing with spirits seems like an easy gig for some people.

Honestly it makes me wonder if there were originally non priest life paths attached to the Jinju setting like the Religion subsetting had custodians and gravediggers and stuff. You never know unless you ask.

[stormsweeper]

The novice LP has an alternate requirement of Master Artisan or Reknowned Artist. At least in the print copy I have in hand.

[stormsweeper]

That said, it would make a lot more sense for most of those LPs to lead to Monastery instead.

[Verrain]

Yes it does. Still, that detail doesn't help the Shepherds and Lazy Stayabouts of the world that want to be priests.

Editted to add: Yes it would make sense for the those paths to lead to Monastery instead. Wouldn't surprise me if that was the intent.

[stormsweeper]

Shinto priesthood wasn't really for the washouts from other walks of life, as I understand it. The monasteries were, though.

[Merritt Baggett]

Actually, the Lazy Stayabout having a bunch of "pointless leads" somehow just seems right in the long run, imo.

[zabieru]

For the general case, some leads are intended to provide readmittance rather than initial entry. For instance, a character could be born into the Jinju, take Miko, become something else in another setting, then go through Lazy Stayabout to get back into the Jinju. However, that's not operative here because the only leads out of the Jinju are to the Hagure setting and there are no leads out from Hagure, so there's no way to get back in once you leave.

[luke]

Yeah, it's bleary-eyed errata. I knew I forgot something. Haven't decided how I'm going to fix it yet, though.

While there was no caste system at the time, the society was pretty regimented.

[Verrain]

So I gathered. That's why finding such a lead is exciting! A lead really means something in Blossoms. Mostly though its just me loving to make characters the hard way. I've pages of religious themed characters in BW that never took an acolyte lifepath just to see how many ways I could lead in there.

[Thor Olavsrud]

Novice Kannushi does not have to be your second lifepath IF you have Master Artisan or Renowned Artist, both of which have leads to the Jinju.

A Master Artisan could take a lifepath like Sculptor or Jeweler, which has a lead to the Village. From there, such a character could take Lazy Stayabout or Shepherd and then take a lead into the Jinju. But I don't think that was our intent.

[Fourth Horseman]

But I don't think that was our intent.

No, it definitely was not.