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, 24 May 2007
Hi,
Courage in Death:
Before one of your personalities is destroyed during battle: Give another target personality a force bonus equal to your personalities chi. If you are a Crab Clan player, delay your personalities destruction until after the battle ends.
As far as I know this is the first time that an action allows destruction from my own card effects (the card does not mention whose effect destroys, so it could be my own) to be delayed.
What if I play a card that has a cost of destroying a personality, e.g. To Do What We Must, and then delay the destruction?
1. Cost not paid, action fails
2. Cost is paid but delayed, action succeds
Is it 1. or 2. ?
Chris Fuchs (rules official), 24 May 2007
Hi,
Courage in Death:
Before one of your personalities is destroyed during battle: Give another target personality a force bonus equal to your personalities chi. If you are a Crab Clan player, delay your personalities destruction until after the battle ends.
As far as I know this is the first time that an action allows destruction from my own card effects (the card does not mention whose effect destroys, so it could be my own) to be delayed.
What if I play a card that has a cost of destroying a personality, e.g. To Do What We Must, and then delay the destruction?
1. Cost not paid, action fails
2. Cost is paid but delayed, action succeds
Is it 1. or 2. ?
Cost is not successfully paid, you may attempt to use other resources to pay the cost or allow the action to fail.