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, 13 April 2010
I play Turn the Tide, having only a single personality in play, and want to use Debt Collector to pay 3 gold by bowing my personality. Is this legal? My personality was initially straight so I can meet the cost of having an unbowed Samurai, but he's bowed from the Debt Collector usage. Is there an order to paying costs?
If it is legal it bows all the enemy Personalities, correct?
Turn the Tide Battle: If your army has one or more unbowed Samurai and the enemy army has more unbowed Personalities than yours: The enemy leader targets and bows a different unbowed Personality in his army, one by one, until his army no longer has more unbowed Personalities than yours, or until he can no longer do so.
Debt Collector Retainer Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Bow this card and one of your Personalities: Produce 3 Gold.
Dan Jacobson (rules official), 13 April 2010
I play Turn the Tide, having only a single personality in play, and want to use Debt Collector to pay 3 gold by bowing my personality. Is this legal? My personality was initially straight so I can meet the cost of having an unbowed Samurai, but he's bowed from the Debt Collector usage. Is there an order to paying costs?
If it is legal it bows all the enemy Personalities, correct?
Turn the Tide Battle: If your army has one or more unbowed Samurai and the enemy army has more unbowed Personalities than yours: The enemy leader targets and bows a different unbowed Personality in his army, one by one, until his army no longer has more unbowed Personalities than yours, or until he can no longer do so.
Debt Collector Retainer Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Bow this card and one of your Personalities: Produce 3 Gold.
Looks like it works to me.
Enjoy bowing armies!