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 February 2015
Hey,
Just to be clear: if the number of Rings I have in play changes AFTER I play Walking with the Earth, does the PS bonus change to reflect this?
Edit: if I have one Ring out when I play it, I my provinces get +2. If, during a battle, I drop another Ring, would the bonus become +4?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 March 2015
Hey,
Just to be clear: if the number of Rings I have in play changes AFTER I play Walking with the Earth, does the PS bonus change to reflect this?
Edit: if I have one Ring out when I play it, I my provinces get +2. If, during a battle, I drop another Ring, would the bonus become +4?
Walking With the Earth creates an instantaneous effect giving your provinces a strength bonus. It's set by the number of Rings in play when played.
If it was going to be a continuous effect it'd be worded along the lines of "Until the end of the turn, your provinces have a bonus to their strength equal to the number of rings you (currently) have in play."