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, 27 September 2014
Just following up on my previous question, which seems to have been lost in the shuffle.
I have two questions. The first is, can a personality be invested if he enters play from somewhere other than a province, for example using Blood of the Preserver XP? I assume the answer is yes, since Blood uses the normal recruitment procedure and the comprehensive rules state that an invest cost may be paid, "when paying for a card entering play". Nevertheless, I'd like a confirmation ruling.
My second question pertains to the wording of the invest rules in the comprehensive rules. The relevant section states in part, "...a player may increase it's gold cost by the additional cost in its invest trait, once, to get an additional effect..." My question pertains to the definition of the word "once" in these rules. Clearly it means you can't "multi-invest", (ie, you cannot pay 6 gold for Sumusu Tanjin to put out 2 clout tokens) but what is the duration, in game terms, of the "once" restriction on the ability to use an invest trait? If a personality has already been invested once this game, then killed, then is returned to play using Blood of the Preserver XP, and furthermore assuming I have the option to invest when a personality enters play via blood, can I pay the invest cost a second time in one game to gain the effect? Assuming of course the card has not been turned down at any point.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 January 2015
Just following up on my previous question, which seems to have been lost in the shuffle.
I have two questions. The first is, can a personality be invested if he enters play from somewhere other than a province, for example using Blood of the Preserver XP? I assume the answer is yes, since Blood uses the normal recruitment procedure and the comprehensive rules state that an invest cost may be paid, "when paying for a card entering play". Nevertheless, I'd like a confirmation ruling.
My second question pertains to the wording of the invest rules in the comprehensive rules. The relevant section states in part, "...a player may increase it's gold cost by the additional cost in its invest trait, once, to get an additional effect..." My question pertains to the definition of the word "once" in these rules. Clearly it means you can't "multi-invest", (ie, you cannot pay 6 gold for Sumusu Tanjin to put out 2 clout tokens) but what is the duration, in game terms, of the "once" restriction on the ability to use an invest trait? If a personality has already been invested once this game, then killed, then is returned to play using Blood of the Preserver XP, and furthermore assuming I have the option to invest when a personality enters play via blood, can I pay the invest cost a second time in one game to gain the effect? Assuming of course the card has not been turned down at any point.
The answer to both questions is Yes.