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A player, 21 September 2007
Relevant Text: A Terrible Oath- After this Shugenja straightens: Give him a -1C Corruption token. Koutetsu Kabe- This Personality has a minimum Chi of 5.
If I had both of those attached to the same 3C Shugenja, and somehow removed all the tokens from him after straightening 5 times, he would have 8C until the end of the turn, correct? 3 Chi Naturally, upped to 5 by the Armor, given an additional +5C to counteract the corruption tokens so the minimum is maintained. When the -5C penalty is removed, the counter bonus to maintain the minimum is retained, correct? Losing the 2 from the loss of needing it(because due to the bonus the chi is higher than 5 negating that bonus) the shugenja would end up with 8C by my math.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 21 September 2007
A Terrible Oath + Koutetsu Kabe: If I had both of those attached to the same 3C Shugenja, and somehow removed all the tokens from him after straightening 5 times, he would have 8C until the end of the turn, correct?
http://rules.l5r.com/Card_features#Gene ... bout_stats: "When a maximum or minimum is applied, any change in the stat due to this is not considered a penalty or bonus." (Emphasis added.)
No.