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, 16 May 2010
this came up in a tournament today and i thought that the TO made the wrong ruling so i wanted to check and see.
my hida tobashi with a follower got direct approached. then i assign him to the battlefield. my opponent has no one there. i use Obfuscation and attach a follower to him. the TO said that while Obfuscation itself isn't performed, it creates an attachment action that is performed. i looked at the l5r rules page and found this. the equip action is performed here but as a limited. i decided to go with it. but still i don't think he made the right ruling.
is he right or am i right?
here are the card texts:
The Direct Approach Open: Give a target Personality -1F for each of his keywords other than Clan alignments. If his Force is now 0, he may not perform actions.
Obfuscation Battle: Attach a target attachment from your hand or discard pile to your target Personality. You may take an additional action to use one of the attachment's base Battle abilities.
thank you.
btw, it was the last province and that player had crossed 40 honor so this ruling was going to win or lose me the game.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 16 May 2010
this came up in a tournament today and i thought that the TO made the wrong ruling so i wanted to check and see.
my hida tobashi with a follower got direct approached. then i assign him to the battlefield. my opponent has no one there. i use Obfuscation and attach a follower to him. the TO said that while Obfuscation itself isn't performed, it creates an attachment action that is performed. i looked at the l5r rules page and found this. the equip action is performed here but as a limited. i decided to go with it. but still i don't think he made the right ruling.
is he right or am i right?
here are the card texts:
The Direct Approach Open: Give a target Personality -1F for each of his keywords other than Clan alignments. If his Force is now 0, he may not perform actions.
Obfuscation Battle: Attach a target attachment from your hand or discard pile to your target Personality. You may take an additional action to use one of the attachment's base Battle abilities.
thank you.
btw, it was the last province and that player had crossed 40 honor so this ruling was going to win or lose me the game.
Obfuscation's action is not performed at all, and part of the effects of that action include attaching an attachment.
The Equip action from the Rulebook is a separate action entirely and has nothing to do with Obfuscation, other than that they have a similar effect in common.