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, 13 October 2013
My buddies and I had a massive multi-player, mucho back-stabbing L5R fest last night. A few questions came out of it:
Isawa Kaname Text Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Yojimbo Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength. Battle: Any number of times per turn: Ranged 1 Attack.
I'm assuming that Kaname can modify her own ranged attack and make it a ranged attack of 3. Can this be done an unlimited amount of times. Reactions aren't limited to once per turn like abilities, right?
Thanks for the help.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 13 October 2013
My buddies and I had a massive multi-player, mucho back-stabbing L5R fest last night. A few questions came out of it:
Isawa Kaname Text Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Yojimbo Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength. Battle: Any number of times per turn: Ranged 1 Attack.
I'm assuming that Kaname can modify her own ranged attack and make it a ranged attack of 3. Can this be done an unlimited amount of times. Reactions aren't limited to once per turn like abilities, right?
Thanks for the help.
Your first assumption is correct, that Kaname can boost her own Ranged Attack.
However, Reactions are abilities and are subject to the same Once Per Turn restriction as any other ability. What Reactions ARE exempt from are the Rules of Location and Presence that govern Battle, Engage, and Interrupt actions.