History TabletopGame / RiseOfTheKage

* ObviousBeta: One of the complaints leveled against the initial release of the game, which contained muddled and confusing rules that heavily favored the guard player. To address this, GCT Studios released an updated version of the rules for playtesting in early 2016, and eventually released the [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1207064031/rise-of-the-kage-ninja-board-game-with-detailed-mi/posts/1547780 final version 2 rules]] on April 14, 2016. Among other things, the revised rules allow the ninja players to determine in which order the ninja act (when previously it was determined by a dice roll), force the guard player to spend resources to draw cards or play cards during the ninja's turns, and completely eliminate the gameplay concept of aware vs. unaware guards (which was largely redundant when combined with the concept of detected vs. undetected ninja, which was maintained in the revised rules).

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Both Kickstarter add-on boss Oka and the hostage are barefoot. Depending on the circumstances in which you encounter them, Oka is most likely a voluntary example[[labelnote:*]](while padding around her own house barefoot is perfectly understandable, especially in a Japan-inspired setting, Oka's suggested board depicts the ''streets of the merchants' district'')[[/labelnote]], while the hostage almost assuredly is not.

* TheQuietOne / TheSpeechless / TheVoiceless: Ghost of the North Star house presumably fits one of these categories, since the quote on his playmat is nothing but [[VisibleSilence "...."]]

* DamselInDistress: In some missions the ninja have to escape with a hostage, a BoundAndGagged young woman in nightclothes. One of the hostage-specific mission cards refers to her as a "[[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]]."

* PowerTrio: All Kage Kaze Zoku ninja squads are these, for spiritual[[labelnote:*]](the Kage Kaze Zoku consider three to be a holy number)[[/labelnote]], political[[labelnote:*]](the three houses of the Kage Kaze Zoku don't particularly trust each other, and each house wants a representative on every team to watch the other two houses' ninja)[[/labelnote]], and practical[[labelnote:*]](by working together, the three ninja can mitigate each others' weaknesses and magnify each others' strengths)[[/labelnote]] reasons.