Breaking the rhythm and crab stronghold

L5R CCG Rules board, 12 January 2014 to 14 January 2014

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, 12 January 2014

I have 2 questions regarding this

1. Would breaking the rhythem remove the trait provided by the crab stronghold?

2. If the crab personality does lose the force bonus, then If that crab personality is sent home, then comes back in, would he receive the force bonus from his trait again?

Ben Higgins (rules official), 14 January 2014

I have 2 questions regarding this

1. Would breaking the rhythem remove the trait provided by the crab stronghold?

Yes. The trait provides a Force bonus.

2. If the crab personality does lose the force bonus, then If that crab personality is sent home, then comes back in, would he receive the force bonus from his trait again?

The Force bonus trait is a Conditional Continuous Effect. When the Personality leaves the battlefield the condition of the negated bonus is no longer met (the Personality is not opposed), which ends the negated effect. When the Personality moves back in to the battle, a new condition has been established (the Personality is opposed), and the conditional Force bonus will reassert itself as a new bonus. The opposed Crab Personality will gain +1F from the Stronghold.