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, 12 June 2015
Feign Death Interrupt: Target your Personality. After the action resolves, if it destroyed him, bring him into play in your home, ignoring costs and Honor Requirement, then bow him, dishonor him, and lose 2 Honor.
RECRUIT # Furthermore, any time an effect brings a Personality or Holding into play from an out-of-play area, it is considered Recruiting and follows the Recruit procedure with any stated modifications. This does not apply to created cards because they are brought into existence from nothingness.
Does feign death recruit personalities or not? Palmer said the rules were going to be changed 3 months ago. Should we be playing feign death as recruiting personalities as the rules indicate or are they still going to be changed? http://alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... o#p1460523
Could I use the interrupt on a kitsune to get another spirit while using feign death? Kitsune Beiko Force/Chi 0 1 HR/GC/PH 2 10 3 Keywords Earth • Shugenja Text (Shugenja may attach and cast Spells.) Interrupt: After you Recruit Beiko, create a 5F/2C/3PH Mantis Clan • Bear • Nonhuman • Spirit Personality with the trait, "Has -2F while attacking" and the ability, "Battle: Fear 4."
Jon Palmer (rules official), 15 June 2015
Feign Death Interrupt: Target your Personality. After the action resolves, if it destroyed him, bring him into play in your home, ignoring costs and Honor Requirement, then bow him, dishonor him, and lose 2 Honor.
RECRUIT # Furthermore, any time an effect brings a Personality or Holding into play from an out-of-play area, it is considered Recruiting and follows the Recruit procedure with any stated modifications. This does not apply to created cards because they are brought into existence from nothingness.
Does feign death recruit personalities or not? Palmer said the rules were going to be changed 3 months ago. Should we be playing feign death as recruiting personalities as the rules indicate or are they still going to be changed? http://alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... o#p1460523
Could I use the interrupt on a kitsune to get another spirit while using feign death? Kitsune Beiko Force/Chi 0 1 HR/GC/PH 2 10 3 Keywords Earth • Shugenja Text (Shugenja may attach and cast Spells.) Interrupt: After you Recruit Beiko, create a 5F/2C/3PH Mantis Clan • Bear • Nonhuman • Spirit Personality with the trait, "Has -2F while attacking" and the ability, "Battle: Fear 4."
Feign Death does not recruit Personalities. I apologize for the slowness in the CR update, but that's the way the card works.