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, 9 August 2015
So this guy, as well as the Seven Thunder Personalities are legal for standard play. My question is this:
If I have THR in play, and my opponent flips a Loyal Seven Thunder (Let's say Bayushi Kachiko, Seven Thunder, EXP CW), can I recruit her using THR's ability? According to the comprehensive rules: "A Personality with the Loyal keyword will not be controlled by a player who does not share a Clan Alignment with the Personality. This restricts entering play as well as changing control" But since cards override the rules, and THR specifically allows me to recruit the personality, and the recruit action brings people into play...I'm thinking maybe I could do it?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 9 August 2015
So this guy, as well as the Seven Thunder Personalities are legal for standard play. My question is this:
If I have THR in play, and my opponent flips a Loyal Seven Thunder (Let's say Bayushi Kachiko, Seven Thunder, EXP CW), can I recruit her using THR's ability? According to the comprehensive rules: "A Personality with the Loyal keyword will not be controlled by a player who does not share a Clan Alignment with the Personality. This restricts entering play as well as changing control" But since cards override the rules, and THR specifically allows me to recruit the personality, and the recruit action brings people into play...I'm thinking maybe I could do it?
No, sorry, you can't.
Cards need to specifically override rules in order to actually do so.
If the Hooded Ronin allowed such Recruiting as you describe, he would say, "you may Recruit them [ignoring restrictions]."