Legend of the Five Rings, Second Edition: Game Master's Guide

Legend of the Five Rings: Second Edition: Game Master's Guide was the Game Master's core rulebook for Second Edition of the Legend of the Five Rings roleplaying game.
== Contents ==
=== Chapter One: Void (page 6)===
* Fiction "Hiruma's Breath", with Hiruma Sumiko, Hiruma Eikihiro, and Zenkai no Oni.
* Mythic Histories
** The Ancient Time
** The Age of Myth
** The Thousand Years of Peace
* True Histories
** Rokugani Histories
* Famous Battles
** The First Day of Thunder
** The Lion-Phoenix Conflict
** The Battle of Three Stone River
** Victory With No Strike
** The First War
** The Battle of Raging Seas
** The Battle of White Stag
** The Battle of Stolen Graves
** The Battle of Tidal Landbridge
** The Fall of Hiruma Castle
** The Battle of the Cresting Wave
** The Battle of Sleeping River
** The Battle of the Bloody Retreat
** Return of the Ki-Rin
** Seven Day Battle Plain
** The Lion-Crane War
** The Battle on the Plains of Gaiju Shindai
** The Battle of the Forgotten Tide
** The Scorpion Coup
* Cities and Villages
** Lands of the Crab
** Lands of the Crane
** Lands of the Dragon
** Lands of the Lion
** Lands of the Naga
** Lands of the Phoenix
** Lands of the Scorpion
** Lands of the Unicorn
** Unaligned and Minor clans Lands
** Imperial Lands
** Lands of the Three Man Alliance
* Regions of the Empire
=== Chapter Two: Within (page 60)===
* Fiction "No Heroes", with Miya Yumi, Miya Satoshi, Miya Yoto, Koan, and Sanzo.
* The Empire
** The Bonge
** Gardens
** How One Becomes Ronin
** Measuring Time
** Hours of the Day
** Family
** Drums
** Gagaku
** Bunraku
** Fans
** Cloth
** Games
** I Beat Him Just Enough
** Bonuses
** Rokugan is a Quiet Place
** Night
** Seppuku
** More on Seppuku
* Training and Apprentices
* Diplomacy
** The Chambers of Court
** Approximate Glory Ratings
* Natural Disasters
* The Wasting Disease
* Armor and Weapons
* Religion
** The Worship of the Fortunes
** The Seven Virtues of Bushido
** Ancestor Worship
** The Religion
** The Ancestor's Shrine
* Sensing and Countering Magic
* Spell Research
* Advanced Schools
** Crab Avenger School
** Crane Kenshinzen
** Dragon Spirit-Binders
** The Lion's Pride
** Phoenix Elemental Guard
** Scorpion Supai
** Unicorn Magistrates
* The Minor Clans
** Yoritomo's Alliance
** The Tortoise
** The Wasp
** The Sparrow
** The Centipede
* GM Clan Material
* Normal Creatures
=== Chapter Three: Without (page 114) ===
* Fiction "A Restless Dawn", with Hida Kisada and his son Hida Yakamo, devising the invasion of the Asahina lands.
* The Shadowlands
** The Taint
** Tainted Characters
** Harboring the Taint
** Magic in the Shadowlands
** Preventions against the Taint
** Getting Rid of the Shadowlands Taint
** Touch of Corruption
** The Power of Jade
** Ratlings
* Maho
** The Element of Corruption
** The Dark Way
** Game-Mastering a Maho-tsukai
** Maho Mechanics
* Maho spells
* The Bloodspeakers
* Fu Leng's Realm
** Goblins
** Kumo
** Ogres
** Oni
** Onikage (Steeds of Fu Leng)
** Trolls
** Zombies and Skeletons
** Shadowlands Madmen
* Creatures
* The Living Darkness
** The Beginning
** The Scorpion Connection
** Goju
** Ninja
** The Powers of the Darkness
** The Lying Darkness
** Shadow Points
** The Darkness and Your PCs
** Touched By the Darkness
** The Darkness in Your Game
=== Chapter Four: Bushido (page 152) ===
* How To Run an L5R Campaign
* Adventure Themes
* Experience
* Using NPCs
* Adventure Ideas: Skills
** Skills
** High Skills
** The Sins of Lord Bumikari
** The Gift
** Low Skills
* Adventure Ideas: Advantages
* Adventure Ideas: Disadvantages
* The GM's Grab Bag
* The Haunting of Usagi Castle (Introductory Adventure)
** Synopsis
** Game Master Notes
** Ryoko Owari
** The Assignment
** Investigating the Ruins
** Resolution
** Who's Who
** The Inquisitors
** I'm Haunted!
=== Appendix: All and Nothing (page 216) ===
* Charts
* Items and Trinkets
* Interesting NPCs
* Encounters
* Events
* The Shadowlands
* Creating Oni
* Bandit Creation Table
* Mastery Levels of Previously Published Spells
* The Battle Table
* Character Option Compilation - Skills
* Character Option Compilation - Advantages
* Character Option Compilation - Disadvantages
* Notes for Character Option Compilation
* Index
Legend of the Five Rings: Second Edition Game Master's Guide