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, 2 September 2007
RE: This.
My apologies, Zen; I completely overlooked your post underneath Chris's in the link you provided in the above answer. In it, you agree with Chris that further Chi penalities after and seperate from the Obsidian Dragon's WILL reduce a Personality to 0C.
But, twice afterward, you contradict that post:
Here, four hours after your post below Chris's, you tell the asker that the Dragon's penality will be re-calculated AFTER a LATER Chi penality is incurred, per the asker's example.
And then here, twelve hours after that, you say that "Marty was overruled". But Marty's answer describes in the affirmative an example that is the same as all previous; a Chi penalty incurred AFTER the Obsidian Dragon's killing a Personality due to zero Chi.
I find even your latest answer directing me to Chris's and your joint answer to be confusing, both in light of the later contradictions, and because you seem to imply some vague fault with Chris's answer (not stating an exact number for the further penalty) while not acknowledging those later contradictions.
Again, I mean no disrespect, and I thank you for your time in helping myself and others parse these rulings.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 2 September 2007
RE: This.
My apologies, Zen; I completely overlooked your post underneath Chris's in the link you provided in the above answer. In it, you agree with Chris that further Chi penalities after and seperate from the Obsidian Dragon's WILL reduce a Personality to 0C.
But, twice afterward, you contradict that post:
Here, four hours after your post below Chris's, you tell the asker that the Dragon's penality will be re-calculated AFTER a LATER Chi penality is incurred, per the asker's example.
And then here, twelve hours after that, you say that "Marty was overruled". But Marty's answer describes in the affirmative an example that is the same as all previous; a Chi penalty incurred AFTER the Obsidian Dragon's killing a Personality due to zero Chi.
I find even your latest answer directing me to Chris's and your joint answer to be confusing, both in light of the later contradictions, and because you seem to imply some vague fault with Chris's answer (not stating an exact number for the further penalty) while not acknowledging those later contradictions.
Again, I mean no disrespect, and I thank you for your time in helping myself and others parse these rulings.
Ignore everything I wrote, then.