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, 29 April 2010
Situation:
I have a personality equipped with Gift Armor (or some item that negates Chi penalties). I target my Oni and play Drinking One's Life on the personality with Gift Armor so that at the start of each player's turn he would normally receive a +1F/-1C token.
Does Gift Armor prevent the placement of the token itself, or just the -1C effect of the token?
The end result being that as long as the Gift Armor remains in play on the personality targeted with Drinking One's Life (and the Oni remains in play) he would continue to gain tokens and only be affected by the +1F part of the token and not the -1C part of the token.
Relevant Cards
Drinking One's Life: Target your Oni Personality: Target another Personality. Lose 3 Honor. While your Oni remains in play, after the start of each player's turn, give the other Personality a +1F/-1C token.
Gift Armor: Negate all current and new Chi penalties on this Personality. Negate any destruction of this card except from its Personality being destroyed.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 29 April 2010
I have a personality equipped with Gift Armor (or some item that negates Chi penalties). I target my Oni and play Drinking One's Life on the personality with Gift Armor so that at the start of each player's turn he would normally receive a +1F/-1C token.
Does Gift Armor prevent the placement of the token itself, or just the -1C effect of the token?
Just the effect.
The end result being that as long as the Gift Armor remains in play on the personality targeted with Drinking One's Life (and the Oni remains in play) he would continue to gain tokens and only be affected by the +1F part of the token and not the -1C part of the token.
Yes, that's correct.
Poor thirsty Oni. ( )