Three-Stone River and Wandering Budoka

L5R CCG Rules board, 29 April 2008

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, 29 April 2008

Three-Stone River Terrain Battle: Before this battle’s resolution, reduce the Force of each Personality at this battlefield to the Force of his highest Force Follower, or to 1 if he has no Followers.

Wandering Budoka This card has a Force bonus equal to twice the number of your provinces that have been destroyed this game. After this card enters play from your hand: Draw a number of cards equal to the number of players who have had a province destroyed this game.

If I have 1 province remaining, so that my Wandering Budoka has 8 Force, and it is attached to Daigotsu Iemitsu, who has 5 Force, and my opponent plays a Three-Stone River, which of the following occurs? I'm really unsure how it would work.

A) Iemitsu's Force is raised to 8, since the Budoka's Force is 8 B) Iemitsu's Force remains 5, since it's not 'reducing' his force to 8

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 29 April 2008

If I have 1 province remaining, so that my Wandering Budoka has 8 Force, and it is attached to Daigotsu Iemitsu, who has 5 Force, and my opponent plays a Three-Stone River, which of the following occurs?

This one:

On: Three-Stone River, Wandering Budoka, Daigotsu Iemitsu

Iemitsu's Force remains 5, since it's not 'reducing' his force to 8

"Reduce" mean "make one number smaller until it is equal," not just "make the numbers equal."

On: Three-Stone River, Wandering Budoka