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A player, 14 January 2010
I tried searching Unfortunate Incident, and I tried searching Buying for Honor, but didn't come up with anything here . . .
If my opponent uses an Unfortunate Incident on me, how does that interact with buying personalities for honor? Are the situations below correct?
Situation 1) I don't meet the personality's honor requirement. I could choose to pay full to gain honor, or I could choose to go cheap and not gain honor.
Situation 2) I do meet the personality's honor requirement. Since ignoring the honor requirement does me no good, I buy normally (full for honor or cheap for no honor).
Thanks!
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 14 January 2010
If my opponent uses an Unfortunate Incident on me, how does that interact with buying personalities for honor?
Not at all. Cost and honor gains are all done as normal.
What a player decides to pay for a Personality does not depend on honor requirements.
What a player decides to pay for a Personality can affect honor requirements, though.
See the wording here: http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Sequence_of_play#Dynasty_Phase