Deadly Aura

L5R CCG Rules board, 7 October 2010

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, 7 October 2010

A question came up during a few games. If a Samurai has a weapon attached and the weapon battle ability does not target the Samurai to use it. Does this count as the personality performing it?

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 7 October 2010

A question came up during a few games. If a Samurai has a weapon attached and the weapon battle ability does not target the Samurai to use it. Does this count as the personality performing it?

Performance questions are often -- nay, frequently asked questions.

http://rules.l5r.com/CE_FAQ#What_performs_an_action.3F: "Actions on Items or Spells are performed by their Personality."