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.
I am playing Will on a random samurai. What am I paying for? The action or the personality?
For instance, does Private Produce 3 gold? Does Clan Estade produce 3 gold if it's a cavalry samurai? Do both apply?
Shinjo Kadonomaro has a similar effect as it's putting a personality into play by means of a battle action. Does Clan Estate produce 3 gold when bringing him into play?
I am playing Will on a random samurai. What am I paying for? The action or the personality?
Personality. http://rules.l5r.com/Costs_and_restrict ... onal_costs: "If an action brings a card into play... the card’s Gold is not a cost of the action." (Though admittedly, the asterisk in the gold cost doesn't help clarify.)
I have decreed that the asterisk be replaced by a zero in the second printing of Samurai Edition, to make things abundantly clear.