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, 25 March 2009
Considering a situation where player A have -16 family honor and player B have only one province, what would happen if player A plays a Blackmail and player B reveal it? Who loses first: A for dishonor or B for provinces?
In a similar scenario, what would happen if player A (with more than one province) resolves Desperate Measures?
Blackmail Limited: Choose one Province and one Holding of another player. You take control of that Holding. If your opponent decides to reveal the Blackmail as an Open action, then the target Province is destroyed, the Holding is returned, and you lose 10 Honor. If the Province is destroyed, Blackmail is too.
Desperate Measures Destroy the Province this card came from and any one other Province in play, which you select. Lose 5 Honor
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 25 March 2009
Considering a situation where player A have -16 family honor and player B have only one province, what would happen if player A plays a Blackmail and player B reveal it? Who loses first: A for dishonor or B for provinces?
Effects occur in order written. Province first, honor loss later.
In a similar scenario, what would happen if player A (with more than one province) resolves Desperate Measures?
Same answer.