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, 6 July 2010
Hi
Couldn't see this specifically asked in previous Plains of Resolution topics. If I use a force reduction effect on a personality (e.g. Kitsuki Hanbei's ability) and then my opponent uses the effect of Plains of Resolution on the same personality, will this cancel out the force reduction already applied, or will it just cancel any further reductions?
Plains of Resolution Open: Bow this card: Your target Samurai contributes force while bowed and will not have his force reduced by other players' cards
Kitsuki Hanbei Open: Give -3F to a target Personality with lower Personal Honor than Hanbei's Chi
Thanks
Steve
Alex Jones (rules official), 6 July 2010
Hi
Couldn't see this specifically asked in previous Plains of Resolution topics. If I use a force reduction effect on a personality (e.g. Kitsuki Hanbei's ability) and then my opponent uses the effect of Plains of Resolution on the same personality, will this cancel out the force reduction already applied, or will it just cancel any further reductions?
Plains of Resolution Open: Bow this card: Your target Samurai contributes force while bowed and will not have his force reduced by other players' cards
Kitsuki Hanbei Open: Give -3F to a target Personality with lower Personal Honor than Hanbei's Chi
Thanks
Steve
"Will not" is a future tense.