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, 1 September 2007
I used the quick search box on top of the forum to look this up and didn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask (Is there a more thorough search engine on the boards, or is that one sufficient?).
Kyuden Asako: "Reaction: After one of your Temples bows: Straighten one of your target Shugenja or Monks."
Temple to Shinsei: "Limited: Bow this card and one of your target Monk or Shugenja Personalities: Gain 2 Honor."
It's been brought to my attention that, after a player bows a shugenja to use Temple to Shinsei's Limited action, he can't actually react with his stronghold to straighten that shugenja. Is that really true? Have I been misplaying these cards the whole time?
Chris Fuchs (rules official), 1 September 2007
I used the quick search box on top of the forum to look this up and didn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask (Is there a more thorough search engine on the boards, or is that one sufficient?).
Kyuden Asako: "Reaction: After one of your Temples bows: Straighten one of your target Shugenja or Monks."
Temple to Shinsei: "Limited: Bow this card and one of your target Monk or Shugenja Personalities: Gain 2 Honor."
It's been brought to my attention that, after a player bows a shugenja to use Temple to Shinsei's Limited action, he can't actually react with his stronghold to straighten that shugenja. Is that really true? Have I been misplaying these cards the whole time?
Your Temple is already bowed by the time you pay the cost of bowing the shugenja, so your reaction window to straighten a shugenja has passed.
A player, 22 April 2008
I understand this ruling http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=61135&p=781424&hilit=temple+to+Temple+to+Shinsei+#p781424
but i was wondering if you had a bow person, you used temple to shinsei's limited action, reaction of Kyuden Asako goes off, straighten him and then bow him to pay the rest of the cost?
temple to shinsei does not say it has to be a unbowed guy.
Alex Jones (rules official), 23 April 2008
I understand this ruling http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=61135&p=781424&hilit=temple+to+Temple+to+Shinsei+#p781424
but i was wondering if you had a bow person, you used temple to shinsei's limited action, reaction of Kyuden Asako goes off, straighten him and then bow him to pay the rest of the cost?
temple to shinsei does not say it has to be a unbowed guy.
Looks good to me.
In the "Required Targeting" step you target your bowed shugenja*; in "Pay costs" you bow the Temple to Shinsei, react with the stronghold to straighten the shugenja, then bow him to pay the cost of the action.
Alex
(*) Technically, you need to invoke Good Faith here.