Lakeside Retreat, Temple Grounds

L5R CCG Rules board, 30 April 2014

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A player, 30 April 2014

Two questions.

1. If my opponent plays Lakeside Retreat but has nobody bowed and I do, wouldn't Lakeside force him to straighten my personality or follower?

2. If I Calv a unit into a battlefield and then attach a non-calv follower does that now make the Unit a non-cavalry unit and thus eligible for protection from Temple Grounds?

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 30 April 2014

Two questions.

1. If my opponent plays Lakeside Retreat but has nobody bowed and I do, wouldn't Lakeside force him to straighten my personality or follower?

2. If I Calv a unit into a battlefield and then attach a non-calv follower does that now make the Unit a non-cavalry unit and thus eligible for protection from Temple Grounds?

1) No. The Terrain's trait doesn't specify that a bowed card need be chosen. He could choose to straighten one of his Personalities or Followers that is already unbowed, and have the straightening simply fail.

2) Your question seems to be making some assumptions about the game state that aren't explicitly delineated in what you wrote, but I'll try to ignore those and answer as plainly as possible:

If you have a Cavalry unit at a battlefield and, during the battle, attach a non-Cavalry Follower to it, then it is no longer a Cavalry unit while that Follower remains attached. So, after you do that, if you have Temple Grounds in play at such a battlefield, and the other player controls no units there, his Battle actions WOULD be negated by Temple Grounds' trait.