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, 10 December 2008
Hello, after some searching I have been unable to find an old ruling regarding followers that have "+" signs for stats.
I seem to remember that followers with "+x" Force were counted as having xF of there own, i.e. you would require a ranged attack of 2F to destroy a follower with the force stat of +2. But that followers with "+x" Chi still had no Chi value of their own.
The SE rules obviously have no rules for this type of stat on followers as they have been studiously avoided and the Legacy rulings and old rulings at L5R.com I can find do not mention any of this. Can you help?
Cheers UK Ronin
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 13 December 2008
Hello, after some searching I have been unable to find an old ruling regarding followers that have "+" signs for stats.
I seem to remember that followers with "+x" Force were counted as having xF of there own, i.e. you would require a ranged attack of 2F to destroy a follower with the force stat of +2. But that followers with "+x" Chi still had no Chi value of their own.
The SE rules obviously have no rules for this type of stat on followers as they have been studiously avoided and the Legacy rulings and old rulings at L5R.com I can find do not mention any of this. Can you help?
Cheers UK Ronin
I can confirm that was the rule. I see no particular reason it wouldn't hold true for Legacy, but I've been unable to find any mention of it in the Legacy rules.