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, 23 September 2007
I have had a short debate with an opponent about this card and have decided that while I conceded it durring the game I want clarifacation for the next time....
When my opponent's personality has several attachments but has 0 Force himself (for whatever reason) and I then play "A Noble End" targeting him with it's effect. The personality is destroyed, but the Attachments are as well though not directly as an effect of the card. However the exact wording of the card states; "Target one of your unbowed Personalities: Target a number of Personalities or Followers opposing him up to his Personal Honor. Destroy each opposing target with 0 Force. Gain 2 Honor for each card destroyed. Give each opposing target still in play -2F."
The rules state that; " If a Personality leaves play (for example, by being destroyed), all cards in the unit leave play in the same way."
So, when "A Noble End" destrotys the above personality you would gain honor for not only the personality but also for all attached cards as well as they were also destroyed at the same time.
Correct?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 23 September 2007
I have had a short debate with an opponent about this card and have decided that while I conceded it durring the game I want clarifacation for the next time....
When my opponent's personality has several attachments but has 0 Force himself (for whatever reason) and I then play "A Noble End" targeting him with it's effect. The personality is destroyed, but the Attachments are as well though not directly as an effect of the card. However the exact wording of the card states; "Target one of your unbowed Personalities: Target a number of Personalities or Followers opposing him up to his Personal Honor. Destroy each opposing target with 0 Force. Gain 2 Honor for each card destroyed. Give each opposing target still in play -2F."
The rules state that; " If a Personality leaves play (for example, by being destroyed), all cards in the unit leave play in the same way."
So, when "A Noble End" destrotys the above personality you would gain honor for not only the personality but also for all attached cards as well as they were also destroyed at the same time.
Correct?
http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_F#For_each: "Sometimes "for each" refers back to an effect that is proportional to another set of effects created by the same action or trait. In this particular wording, only the actual occurrences created by the first set of effects count toward the second, not any contingent effects triggered by other cards or rules.
"Example: 'Destroy 1 to 3 enemy cards. Gain 1 Honor for each card destroyed.' If the destruction of one enemy card triggers the destruction of another (as when a Personality's attachments are destroyed via the rules), the additional card is not counted towards the Honor. Also note that if the destruction of one enemy card is prevented, one less Honor will be gained."