Battle actions outside of battle, Part 3 - Coward!

L5R CCG Rules board, 25 June 2007 to 2 July 2007

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, 25 June 2007

referencing viewtopic.php?t=58587

Yes, you are right, it doesn't say "any location". Allow me to reword the question...

I'm defending with an unbowed samurai and have a personality at my home. I play coward targetting my personality at home. Under samurai rules, since Coward! specifically says "in his home" therefore allowing me to ignore the part of the rule of location that requires the target be at the current battlefield, can I choose to dishonor him, lose two honor, and draw two cards?

Chris Fuchs (rules official), 2 July 2007

referencing viewtopic.php?t=58587

Yes, you are right, it doesn't say "any location". Allow me to reword the question...

I'm defending with an unbowed samurai and have a personality at my home. I play coward targetting my personality at home. Under samurai rules, since Coward! specifically says "in his home" therefore allowing me to ignore the part of the rule of location that requires the target be at the current battlefield, can I choose to dishonor him, lose two honor, and draw two cards?

Yes.