Spells and non-shugenja personalities

L5R CCG Rules board, 1 January 2013 to 2 January 2013

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, 1 January 2013

If a spell gets attached to a non-shugenja personality by some means (say overlaying), I believe it does not discard itself as an illegal attachment, correct? And if it does stay in play is the personality able to take actions on the spell and/or do traits of the spell continue to function (i.e. Strength of the Tsunami's force bonus)? Thank you

A player, 1 January 2013

If a spell gets attached to a non-shugenja personality by some means (say overlaying), I believe it does not discard itself as an illegal attachment, correct? And if it does stay in play is the personality able to take actions on the spell and/or do traits of the spell continue to function (i.e. Strength of the Tsunami's force bonus)? Thank you

Alex Jones (rules official), 2 January 2013

If a spell gets attached to a non-shugenja personality by some means (say overlaying), I believe it does not discard itself as an illegal attachment, correct? And if it does stay in play is the personality able to take actions on the spell and/or do traits of the spell continue to function (i.e. Strength of the Tsunami's force bonus)? Thank you

Card Types, Attachments: Once attached, an attachment remains attached even if changes to it, or to its Personality, mean it would no longer be legal to attach.

Spells: Actions on Spells that have somehow become attached to a non-Shugenja Personality may not be taken.

And, slightly more difficult to find, Special wording rules, References to attachments: Attachments that refer to “this [keyword]” refer to a keyword that must be found on the Personality it is attached to for the effect to be satisfied.