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, 19 September 2007
Ring of the Void After you successfully resolve your fourth or later non-Kiho action from Action cards in one phase: You may put this card into play from your hand. Open: Bow this card or discard it from your hand: If any player has more cards in his hand than you do, or if you bowed this card, draw a card.
Ok my question is when do you count cards? For ex. I have 8 cards and my opponents has 8 cards. I discard the ring. Now I have 7 cards and thus fewer than my opponent. I draw a card. Does it work this way or does it count the original number of cards? In other words does Ring of the Void count the number of cards before I discard it or after I discard it.
Chris Fuchs (rules official), 19 September 2007
Ring of the Void After you successfully resolve your fourth or later non-Kiho action from Action cards in one phase: You may put this card into play from your hand. Open: Bow this card or discard it from your hand: If any player has more cards in his hand than you do, or if you bowed this card, draw a card.
Ok my question is when do you count cards? For ex. I have 8 cards and my opponents has 8 cards. I discard the ring. Now I have 7 cards and thus fewer than my opponent. I draw a card. Does it work this way or does it count the original number of cards? In other words does Ring of the Void count the number of cards before I discard it or after I discard it.
You count when the effect resolves, which is after costs are paid.