Question regarding Invest

L5R CCG Rules board, 13 December 2013 to 22 December 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, 13 December 2013

Is the Invest on a personality considered a printed ability of the personality?

Jon Palmer (rules official), 22 December 2013

Is the Invest on a personality considered a printed ability of the personality?

Invest is a trait, not an action. Therefore it cannot be an ability, which the CR defines as text that allows an action to be taken.