Yasuki Palaces XP & Gold Pooling

L5R CCG Rules board, 2 October 2014

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A player, 2 October 2014

Greetings. How does the trait of Yasuki Palaces XP (This Stronghold produces 1 less Gold when paying for a Personality) work with gold pooling? Thanks.

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 2 October 2014

Greetings. How does the trait of Yasuki Palaces XP (This Stronghold produces 1 less Gold when paying for a Personality) work with gold pooling? Thanks.

Well, it's certainly not AS restrictive as before.

However, you cannot produce Gold for no reason; you have to be purchasing something. So, if you have nothing to Recruit except Personalities, then the Stronghold will only produce 4 as the trait says. However, if you have any other option, such as a 1G Holding, you can produce the full 5G to Recruit it, and the remaining 4G will then be in your pool to do with as you like.