Utaku Plains, Utaku Kohana xp, and dishonored personalities

L5R CCG Rules board, 22 July 2009

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A player, 22 July 2009

During a battle, I am feeling a little goofy, so I decide to target one of my dishonored personalities with Utaku Plains' "Battle: Target your Personality: Reduce the Force of a target enemy Personality or Follower by your Personality's Personal Honor." I realize that the force penalty will be 0, but assuming she's in the same battlefield, will it trigger Kohana xp's trait "After the resolution of an action which gave a Force penalty to any enemy cards at the current battlefield, if Kohana is there: Gain 1 Honor."? I have them a force penalty. It just happened to be -0.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 22 July 2009

I have them a force penalty. It just happened to be -0.

No.

http://rules.l5r.com/Card_features#Maxi ... _penalties: "A bonus or penalty of +0 or -0 is not a bonus or penalty when you check whether a bonus or penalty was received."