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A player, 21 March 2014
The False Path Your non-Unique Monk and Fudo Personalities in and out of play have Monk • Fudo. Fudo Personalities join you for 2 less Gold. You ignore Honor Requirements of your Fudo cards. You do not lose Honor from Fudo cards you own. You may not win by Enlightenment.
If I am playing the False Path and have Hiyamako (2G Spider Monk) in province what do I pay when I go to recruit him?
1) 0G - Fudo is a psuedo-clan so he has my alignment in addition to Spider so he is 2G (base) - 2G (Fudo) = 0. 2) 2G - He is aligned with a Clan that is not my own (because I do not have one), so he is 2G (base) + 2 (out of clan) - 2 (Fudo) = 2.
Thanks!
Ben Higgins (rules official), 21 March 2014
The False Path Your non-Unique Monk and Fudo Personalities in and out of play have Monk • Fudo. Fudo Personalities join you for 2 less Gold. You ignore Honor Requirements of your Fudo cards. You do not lose Honor from Fudo cards you own. You may not win by Enlightenment.
If I am playing the False Path and have Hiyamako (2G Spider Monk) in province what do I pay when I go to recruit him?
1) 0G - Fudo is a psuedo-clan so he has my alignment in addition to Spider so he is 2G (base) - 2G (Fudo) = 0. 2) 2G - He is aligned with a Clan that is not my own (because I do not have one), so he is 2G (base) + 2 (out of clan) - 2 (Fudo) = 2.
Thanks!
Your example #2 is correct.