Target or Nontarget?

L5R CCG Rules board, 21 December 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, 21 December 2007

If I have a personality and target him with Inner Fire would it then be possible to later use Astonishing Resilience or Courage in Death on him because these cards do not target the personality?

Inner Fire....Battle: Straighten one of your target bowed Personalities. You can not bow him as a cost or target him (until this turn ends).

Astonishing Resilience...Heroic Reaction: After another player's card's effect destroys a Hero or Berserker Personality in an army: The Personality contributes his Force to the army even while he is dead (only if the army has one or more units).

Courage in Death...Reaction: Before one of your Personalities is destroyed during battle: Give another target Personality a Force bonus equal to your Personality's Chi. If you are a Crab Clan player, delay your Personality's destruction until after the battle ends.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 21 December 2007

If I have a personality and target him with Inner Fire would it then be possible to later use Astonishing Resilience or Courage in Death on him because these cards do not target the personality?

Yes. Nothing targets unless the card says so.