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 March 2008
Share the Blame Cost:0 Focus:3 Political Reaction: After another player targets a Courtier with an action, dishonor one of your Courtiers: Dishonor the Courtier the other player targeted. You, then the other player, each lose 3 Honor.
I have read the topics previously posted , but cant help but think that a card which hits you for just simply targeting one of your people is somehow unbalanced. How can you be "blamed" when nothing has actually occured? I could understand if it read " After another players courtier performs or resolves an action", as it is my courtier starts to lobby for the Favor and bam he is dishonored and I lose 3 honor...
Also since my courtier is the focal point to which this card reacts, seeems to me he is involved/causing the honor loss and should have the option to seppuku, since without the courtier there would be no honor loss.
Alex Jones (rules official), 21 March 2008
Share the Blame Cost:0 Focus:3 Political Reaction: After another player targets a Courtier with an action, dishonor one of your Courtiers: Dishonor the Courtier the other player targeted. You, then the other player, each lose 3 Honor.
I have read the topics previously posted , but cant help but think that a card which hits you for just simply targeting one of your people is somehow unbalanced. How can you be "blamed" when nothing has actually occured? I could understand if it read " After another players courtier performs or resolves an action", as it is my courtier starts to lobby for the Favor and bam he is dishonored and I lose 3 honor...
This is not a rules question, so I'm not going to comment here.
Also since my courtier is the focal point to which this card reacts, seeems to me he is involved/causing the honor loss and should have the option to seppuku, since without the courtier there would be no honor loss.
See: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=61532
Your courtier is neither targeted in the constraints block nor in the effects, so he is neither performing nor being targeted by an action. He cannot Seppuku.