Smuggler's Port and Spider players

L5R CCG Rules board, 2 July 2009 to 3 July 2009

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, 2 July 2009

Smuggler's Port Holding Gold Cost: 2 Port Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Reaction: When paying a Gold cost, if your Family Honor is 1 or higher, bow this card and lose 2 Honor: Produce 3 Gold.

Fields of the Dead (Spider Stronghold) You do not lose Honor from cards you own.

Ok, so how would this work? Free 3 gold holding or can I NEVER get it to produce 3 gold or what?

A player, 3 July 2009

We don't answer to questions about specific IG2 previews yet.

However as a general answer, if an action's mandatory cost requires to lose Honor, and the Spider Clan player's Stronghold is either Fields of the Dead or The Shadowed Dojo (both from Celestial Edition), then he can never pay this cost (see Glossary, From) so the Good Faith Rule forbids him to take such an action.