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A player, 11 October 2007
With reference to this:
http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=62464
What happens to Hida Sozen exp if he recieves Chi penalties from both his own player's cards and a from another player's action? In other words, if Sozen has zero Chi, which of the penalties is deemed to have killed him?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 11 October 2007
With reference to this:
http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=62464
What happens to Hida Sozen exp if he recieves Chi penalties from both his own player's cards and a from another player's action? In other words, if Sozen has zero Chi, which of the penalties is deemed to have killed him?
Already answered here: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=59708
http://rules.l5r.com/Effects#Source_of_effects: "A Personality’s destruction for having 0 Chi comes from the effect that last gave the Personality a Chi penalty, or from the rulebook if there was no such effect." (Emphasis added.)