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, 25 September 2007
Recon Open: During battles at a target province this turn, your non-Shadowlands Hare Clan and Unaligned Human Personalities have +1F. Assumptions for this question: 1) Playing out of Stronghold Shiro Usagi ; 2) Event "The Portals Open" (I think) when revealed, allows me to align my personalities, some of whom may (will!) be nonhuman, to Hare.
I understand the action on Heiji means that I may have two different classes of targets, each of which may have +1F. Must I interpret the first class as "non-Shadowlands Hare Clan" "Human Personalities" or may I merely interpret it as "non-Shadowlands Hare Clan Personalities" ? (In the latter case, the nonhumans may gain the boost.)
Chris Fuchs (rules official), 25 September 2007
Recon Open: During battles at a target province this turn, your non-Shadowlands Hare Clan and Unaligned Human Personalities have +1F. Assumptions for this question: 1) Playing out of Stronghold Shiro Usagi ; 2) Event "The Portals Open" (I think) when revealed, allows me to align my personalities, some of whom may (will!) be nonhuman, to Hare.
I understand the action on Heiji means that I may have two different classes of targets, each of which may have +1F. Must I interpret the first class as "non-Shadowlands Hare Clan" "Human Personalities" or may I merely interpret it as "non-Shadowlands Hare Clan Personalities" ? (In the latter case, the nonhumans may gain the boost.)
Started a discussion with Rules and Design teams on this one, I'll update this thread when we figure it out.
Chris Fuchs (rules official), 26 September 2007
Heiji is a special case, with modifiers both before and after the "X or Y" clause. Non-Shadowlands, Human, and Personality are each modifiers that apply to both "Hare Clan" and "Unaligned" when checking for the bonus.