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, 19 December 2009
I did a search on this topic and found some things that seem like answers, but I'd like some explicit clarification. Togashi Shintaro has a base force of 0 and 3 +1F Fire tokens. If Togashi Kazuki EXP uses his Open action, does Shintaro's force go to 5 or to 8? Basically, does Kazuki already "see" the force bonus from the fire tokens?
Togashi Shintaro 0/3 3/6/2 Dragon Clan * Fire * Monk * Tattooed After Shintaro Enters play: Give him three +1F Fire Tokens. BATTLE: Destroy a fire token on Shintaro: Range 3 Attack
Togashi Kazuki 5/4 0/9/2 Dragon Clan * Monk * Samurai * Tattooed * Yojimbo * Experienced * Unique Open: Set a target personality's force equal to Kazuki's. Reaction: When another player would target a personality in Kazuki's army, discard a ring from your hand or bow one of your rings: The action targets another personality in his army.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 19 December 2009
I did a search on this topic and found some things that seem like answers, but I'd like some explicit clarification. Togashi Shintaro has a base force of 0 and 3 +1F Fire tokens. If Togashi Kazuki EXP uses his Open action, does Shintaro's force go to 5 or to 8? Basically, does Kazuki already "see" the force bonus from the fire tokens?
Togashi Shintaro 0/3 3/6/2 Dragon Clan * Fire * Monk * Tattooed After Shintaro Enters play: Give him three +1F Fire Tokens. BATTLE: Destroy a fire token on Shintaro: Range 3 Attack
Togashi Kazuki 5/4 0/9/2 Dragon Clan * Monk * Samurai * Tattooed * Yojimbo * Experienced * Unique Open: Set a target personality's force equal to Kazuki's. Reaction: When another player would target a personality in Kazuki's army, discard a ring from your hand or bow one of your rings: The action targets another personality in his army.
5.
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Card_features#Calculating_stats: "The game always checks a stat's current value(.)"
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Card_features#S ... to_a_value: "To set a stat to a value, give it the smallest possible appropriate bonus or penalty such that it reaches that value."
Here, a 0F/3C Personality has a +3F tokens. An effect sets the Personality's Force to 5. The Personality's Force gains +2F to go to 5. Because the token's bonuses are already part of the Force stat, it is not reapplied.