Unspoken Threats

L5R CCG Rules board, 11 September 2007 to 12 September 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, 11 September 2007

Unspoken Threats

Political Limited: Bow one of your target Courtiers: Target another player’s Human Personality. While your Courtier remains in play, after each time that Personality assigns or moves to attack one of your Provinces, his controller loses 2 Honor.

Does it mean:

a) He loses 2 honor every time he assigns to a battle or moves to attack. (meaning he loses honor if he assigns the peep as a defender)

b) He loses 2 honor every time he assigns to attack or moves to attack.

Martin Lund (rules official), 12 September 2007

Unspoken Threats

Political Limited: Bow one of your target Courtiers: Target another player’s Human Personality. While your Courtier remains in play, after each time that Personality assigns or moves to attack one of your Provinces, his controller loses 2 Honor.

Does it mean:

a) He loses 2 honor every time he assigns to a battle or moves to attack. (meaning he loses honor if he assigns the peep as a defender)

b) He loses 2 honor every time he assigns to attack or moves to attack.

The latter.

"to attack one of your Provinces" qualifies "assigns or moves" not just "moves."