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, 14 March 2014
[I know you guys are busy with the Ivory stuff right now, but anyway...]
Back in 2003, I asked what was the possible sequence for resolving a Rampant Plague's effect. Since it mentions "each player gives one -1C Plague token to one of his own Personalities and to another Personality", the global effect is different depending on who does this first. Let's assume you have no personalities in play when you resolve RP:
- if you (Rampant Plague's controller) do the effect first, you pick one of your opponent's personalities for the second plague token. Then your savvy opponent gives his first Plague token to the same personality, and his second token to another one of his personalities. Total peeps contaminated = 2.
- if your opponent does the effect first, he is forced to pick two of his personalities; then you choose ANOTHER of his personalities for your second token. Total peeps contaminated = 3.
Back at the time, Jeff Alexander replied saying "active player decides who resolves the effect first". I was wondering if this is still vaild in today's Age of Ivory?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 20 March 2014
[I know you guys are busy with the Ivory stuff right now, but anyway...]
Back in 2003, I asked what was the possible sequence for resolving a Rampant Plague's effect. Since it mentions "each player gives one -1C Plague token to one of his own Personalities and to another Personality", the global effect is different depending on who does this first. Let's assume you have no personalities in play when you resolve RP:
- if you (Rampant Plague's controller) do the effect first, you pick one of your opponent's personalities for the second plague token. Then your savvy opponent gives his first Plague token to the same personality, and his second token to another one of his personalities. Total peeps contaminated = 2.
- if your opponent does the effect first, he is forced to pick two of his personalities; then you choose ANOTHER of his personalities for your second token. Total peeps contaminated = 3.
Back at the time, Jeff Alexander replied saying "active player decides who resolves the effect first". I was wondering if this is still vaild in today's Age of Ivory?
Nothing has overturned this; the active player will still decide which player gives out the tokens first.