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, 21 May 2010
I undertand it is possible to react as many times as you like to the same trigger and that actions can fail. What I was wondering is if this means I can use the same reaction twice, to deliberately have one fail, but have it count towards the Ring of Void.
The specific instance I was thinking of would be something on the lines of:
1) Ambush 2) Sneak attack 3) Sneak attack (which fails to grant me anything above what the first one accomplished) 4) Random fate card 5) Drop Ring of Void.
Is there anything in the rules that prevents me from using this chain of actions now that Void no longer requires a 'successful' action?
Sneak Attack: Reaction: After engaging: The Attacker has the first opportunity to take a Battle action or pass during this battle. Play then proceeds in turn order from him.
Ring of the Void: After you resolve your fourth or later non-Kiho action from Strategies in one phase: You may put his card into play from your hand.
Thanks!
Dan Jacobson (rules official), 21 May 2010
I undertand it is possible to react as many times as you like to the same trigger and that actions can fail. What I was wondering is if this means I can use the same reaction twice, to deliberately have one fail, but have it count towards the Ring of Void.
The specific instance I was thinking of would be something on the lines of:
1) Ambush 2) Sneak attack 3) Sneak attack (which fails to grant me anything above what the first one accomplished) 4) Random fate card 5) Drop Ring of Void.
Is there anything in the rules that prevents me from using this chain of actions now that Void no longer requires a 'successful' action?
Sneak Attack: Reaction: After engaging: The Attacker has the first opportunity to take a Battle action or pass during this battle. Play then proceeds in turn order from him.
Ring of the Void: After you resolve your fourth or later non-Kiho action from Strategies in one phase: You may put his card into play from your hand.
Thanks!
Yes, this works as you suggest. Multiple Sneak Attacks can be played at the same battle, just so that the multiples count for The Ring of the Void. Note that this does not grant you extra actions however, just the first one. (Assuming you are the Attacker)