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, 30 October 2012
So, as we have seen with Incense Mill, that it reactivate a personalities ability to use specific abilities, but what about being restricted from certain types of actions?
For example, Player A plays Accidental Confession on Player B's unit. Player B uses Incense Mill on same unit, can the unit now move into battlefields?
I know the unit will not be able to assign, since it is not an action, but specifically will it remove the restriction on performing movement actions?
For Reference: Accidental Confession: "Open: Choose your performing unbowed Courtier, discard the Imperial Favor, and target a Personality: Dishonor him. His controller may not assign him, and he will not move, to battlefields this turn."
Incense Mill: "Battle/Open: Target a Personality: Negate all current Force penalties on him. Negate any cards' effects that say he may not perform actions (this turn)."
Jon Palmer (rules official), 30 October 2012
So, as we have seen with Incense Mill, that it reactivate a personalities ability to use specific abilities, but what about being restricted from certain types of actions?
For example, Player A plays Accidental Confession on Player B's unit. Player B uses Incense Mill on same unit, can the unit now move into battlefields?
I know the unit will not be able to assign, since it is not an action, but specifically will it remove the restriction on performing movement actions?
For Reference: Accidental Confession: "Open: Choose your performing unbowed Courtier, discard the Imperial Favor, and target a Personality: Dishonor him. His controller may not assign him, and he will not move, to battlefields this turn."
Incense Mill: "Battle/Open: Target a Personality: Negate all current Force penalties on him. Negate any cards' effects that say he may not perform actions (this turn)."
Accidental Confession does not prevent a Personality from performing actions that would move him to a battlefield; the movement simply does not happen. Incense Mill will not affect that.