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.
If I use Gidayu Sensei to combine a ranged attack between two copies of Tsuruchi Rin, do I get two floating gold for the phase, or only one?
Or, more generally, if a melee/ranged/fear effect has an additional effect, does it only apply if it is the "originating" effect?
Tsuruchi Rin: Battle, (bow): Ranged 2 Attack. If this destroys a card, produce 1 Gold (which can be used later this phase).
Combining (Adv Rulebook p27): All other characteristics of the attack come from the original.
If I use Gidayu Sensei to combine a ranged attack between two copies of Tsuruchi Rin, do I get two floating gold for the phase, or only one?
Or, more generally, if a melee/ranged/fear effect has an additional effect, does it only apply if it is the "originating" effect?
Tsuruchi Rin: Battle, (bow): Ranged 2 Attack. If this destroys a card, produce 1 Gold (which can be used later this phase).
Combining (Adv Rulebook p27): All other characteristics of the attack come from the original.
If you combine two Ranged Attacks from Tsurushi Rin, you would only get 1 "floating" Gold.
This is because only the Ranged Attack strength, targeting restrictions, and other modifiers of the combining attack effect carry over to original attack effect.
The Gold producing effect of Rin is a completely separate effect and thus, even though dependent on the attack effect, will not "carry over."
Note: This thread is followed-up here.