Beiden Pass and Otosan Uchi

L5R CCG Rules board, 6 August 2015 to 7 August 2015

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, 6 August 2015

I have a question about the Siege deck territories. Beiden Pass lists a number of abilities, are they each usable equal to the rank of the players (potentially negating fear 3+ times, and negating range 3+ times on the same turn), or I could only pick and chose to use them equal to the rank of the player. The same applies to Otosan Uchi.

Alex Jones (rules official), 7 August 2015

I have a question about the Siege deck territories. Beiden Pass lists a number of abilities, are they each usable equal to the rank of the players (potentially negating fear 3+ times, and negating range 3+ times on the same turn), or I could only pick and chose to use them equal to the rank of the player. The same applies to Otosan Uchi.

Beiden Pass states, "The Yogo Junzo player has the following abilities which may be used [rank] times per turn total (but still only once per turn each)"

There are 5 abilities on Beiden Pass: if there are 3 Rokugani players, the Yogo Junzo player may use 3 of them per turn, but since none of them is Repeatable he or she may not use each one more than once per turn.

Otosan Uchi states, "The Yogo Junzo player may use abilities on this Territory [rank] times total (usable only at this Territory's battlefield)."

There are 4 abilities on Otosan Uchi: if there are 3 Rokugani players, the Yogo Junzo player may take 3 actions from them. However, since - unlike Beiden Pass - each is Repeatable, he or she may take those 3 actions from the same ability, or 2 from one ability and 1 from another, or all 3 from different abilities.