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, 14 March 2011
Crab player have two scouts in play Hiruma A with 3F and Hiruma B with 4F. Lion player also controls two personalities, Akodo C with 2F and Akodo D with 3F. Crab announces Concentrated Fire, chooses to bow A and is going to destroy target C. Lion player reacts and would like to use Chugo Seido to redirect this action for D. Is it possible?
Concentrated Fire 4 GC Open: Bow one or more of your performing Scout Personalities: Destroy a target enemy Follower, or Personality without attachments, with lower Force than your Scouts' total Force.
Chugo Seido Reaction: When another player's action would target one of your Personalities, destroy this card: The action instead targets one of your Samurai of your choice at the same location, if legal.
Alex Jones (rules official), 14 March 2011
Crab player have two scouts in play Hiruma A with 3F and Hiruma B with 4F. Lion player also controls two personalities, Akodo C with 2F and Akodo D with 3F. Crab announces Concentrated Fire, chooses to bow A and is going to destroy target C. Lion player reacts and would like to use Chugo Seido to redirect this action for D. Is it possible?
Concentrated Fire 4 GC Open: Bow one or more of your performing Scout Personalities: Destroy a target enemy Follower, or Personality without attachments, with lower Force than your Scouts' total Force.
Chugo Seido Reaction: When another player's action would target one of your Personalities, destroy this card: The action instead targets one of your Samurai of your choice at the same location, if legal.
No. Akodo D is not a valid target for Concentrated Fire when performed by Hiruma A because he doesn't have lower force than the Scout's Force; Chugo Seido cannot redirect the target to him.
A player, 14 March 2011
Regarding this post, what is the difference between Concentrated Fire and Dramatic Assassination? Would the Crab player not have to either bow enough force to make the action legal or else decide to let it fail? Is the primary difference that one requires gold payment and the other relies on specifically chosen Personalities?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 14 March 2011
(W)hat is the difference between Concentrated Fire and Dramatic Assassination?
I'm assuming you['re referring to this FAQ question: http://rules.l5r.com/CE_FAQ#What_happen ... ld_cost.3F
Concentrated Fire affects who is targeted; the FAQ on Dramatic Assassination concerns costs (which is not just gold payment, but any kind of cost).
Selection of targets and performers always comes before cost payments, and they have different rules because of that (see http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Abilities_and_a ... performing).