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, 5 March 2015
In 20F Arc we currently have 3 non-Gold-producing Fortifications. Poorly Placed Garden Tunnel Network Kaiu-Built DefensesAll of them have clearly the intended to enter the game unbowed. The first two had the Fortification trait do that, the other one uses the phrase: "This Holding enters play unbowed".
With the update of the Fortification trait the first two changed their functionality. So couldn't you simply add the sentence "Non-Gold-producing Fortifications enter play unbowed" or even more general "Non-Gold-producing Holdings enter play unbowed" to the Comprehensive Rules? Because I suspect that was the intend behind the update of the Fortification keyword.
And sorry if this isn't the right forum for something like that.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 March 2015
In 20F Arc we currently have 3 non-Gold-producing Fortifications. Poorly Placed Garden Tunnel Network Kaiu-Built DefensesAll of them have clearly the intended to enter the game unbowed. The first two had the Fortification trait do that, the other one uses the phrase: "This Holding enters play unbowed".
With the update of the Fortification trait the first two changed their functionality. So couldn't you simply add the sentence "Non-Gold-producing Fortifications enter play unbowed" or even more general "Non-Gold-producing Holdings enter play unbowed" to the Comprehensive Rules? Because I suspect that was the intend behind the update of the Fortification keyword.
And sorry if this isn't the right forum for something like that.
If Design intends to revert the first two Fortifications to their pre-20F functionality, they will do so via MRP or errata. There's not much else I can do in terms of "rules" on it. If you wish to lobby them to do so, this isn't really the place - you can post it in the main forum.