A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 15 October 2012
Hi, if I have Moshi Umiko in play and attached damning Ceremony her force goes up to 6 per her trait. I then use Damning Ceremony's limited ability to raise her force to 9. Does the trait then reapply making her force 11 or is it already factored in and will not reapply? Thank you.
Damning Ceremony: Maho Text Limited: Once per game: Give this Personality a permanent Force bonus raising his Force to equal his base Gold Cost. Permanently give him Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni. Lose 2 Honor.
Moshi Umiko: Keywords Mantis Clan • Thunder • Shugenja • Naval • Storm Rider Text Umiko has +2F while she has a Spell. Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 or -2 strength.
Alex Jones (rules official), 16 October 2012
Hi, if I have Moshi Umiko in play and attached damning Ceremony her force goes up to 6 per her trait. I then use Damning Ceremony's limited ability to raise her force to 9. Does the trait then reapply making her force 11 or is it already factored in and will not reapply? Thank you.
Damning Ceremony: Maho Text Limited: Once per game: Give this Personality a permanent Force bonus raising his Force to equal his base Gold Cost. Permanently give him Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni. Lose 2 Honor.
Moshi Umiko: Keywords Mantis Clan • Thunder • Shugenja • Naval • Storm Rider Text Umiko has +2F while she has a Spell. Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 or -2 strength.
Damning Ceremony will give +3F to Umiko, which is the bonus needed to move her from 6f to 9f. Her total force is then 4F (base) + 2F (from her trait) +3F (from Damning Ceremony) = 9F.
See Calculating Stats for more details.