Pan Ku (CoM) and Loyal personalities....

L5R CCG Rules board, 28 May 2013 to 29 May 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, 28 May 2013

Can Pan Ku take control of Loyal Personalities?

I understand the rules for Loyal personalities, but I also understand that when a card conflicts with rules, it tends to over ride them.

Just wanting a clarification on this.

A player, 29 May 2013

P'an Ku doesn't take control of Loyal Personalities without the player's Clan Alignment.

The "cards beats rules" doesn't render rules void and without effect, it just says that cards can have texts that override rules. For example, if P'an Ku had a text in the line of "ignoring restrictions", such as his Egg has, this would allow P'an Ku to override the rule that Loyal Personalities can't become controlled by players that don't share a Clan Alignment with them. But P'an Ku forgot how to do this when he grew up