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.
Battle : Target two or more of your Personalities with Force penalties from the same source. Negate those penalties.
Does "those penalties" mean "all the penalities on the targeted personnalities which are from the same source".
Example : on my oponent turn Kachiko is here and I play Flashy Technique. My opponent attacks with one personnality et plays Bountiful Fields' battle action : does the personality still have -1F (Bountiful negates only one penalty) or does he recover all his force ?
Battle : Target two or more of your Personalities with Force penalties from the same source. Negate those penalties.
Does "those penalties" mean "all the penalities on the targeted personnalities which are from the same source".
Example : on my oponent turn Kachiko is here and I play Flashy Technique. My opponent attacks with one personnality et plays Bountiful Fields' battle action : does the personality still have -1F (Bountiful negates only one penalty) or does he recover all his force ?
You can't take the action from Bountiful Fields if you only have one Personality in your army, since it requires you to target two or more Personalities.
However. Assuming your opponent attacks you with more than one Personality, one copy of Bountiful Fields will negate the Force penalties from just one shared source.
Following this ruling : http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=108579
According to CR (p40) : Pronouns and pronoun-like terms, like "him," "it," "them," or "that Personality," refer to the last possible thing mentioned in the text that the term would logically refer to.
and CR (p 32) : Choices - Sometimes a choice has to be made in the game. This includes alternate effects (“gain +2F or +1C”), optional effects (“may bow him”), variable effects (“up to three cards”), and assignment.
"Those penalties" refers to "Force penalties from the same source", but as a consequence of the targeting requirement, "for the same source" means "from the same source which are distributed on each targeted personality."
Bountiful Fields' text do not allow or order the player to choose any source. The effect may then be read as "Negate Force penalties from the same source which are distributed on each targeted personality." and affect all qualifying Force penalties.
According to the ruling a choice must be made, can you explain why and how this kind of "unspoken choice" must be deduced from the card's text?
When should such a choice be made? When the targeted personalities are chosen, or before the negation of the penalties?
Thank you !
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[Bountiful Fields] Battle, : Target two or more of your Personalities with Force penalties from the same source. Negate those penalties.