Determination vs Reinforce the Gates

L5R CCG Rules board, 13 November 2007 to 19 November 2007

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, 13 November 2007

Following situation: Player A plays Sneak attack (or declares a Naval invasion). He reacts with Determination to his first action taken this battle. Can player B play Reinforce the Gates to negate the actions effects?

Martin Lund (rules official), 19 November 2007

Following situation: Player A plays Sneak attack (or declares a Naval invasion). He reacts with Determination to his first action taken this battle. Can player B play Reinforce the Gates to negate the actions effects?

You could play Reinforce the Gates, but it would not Negate any of the effects of the Action benefiting from Determination, since Determination says, "The action can not have its effects negated or have its targeting changed."