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, 18 September 2011
Hi there,
A quick question about who performs an action, if the personality or a follower. The cards involved: Toritaka Chokichi: "Battle: Bow your performing Follower: Ranged 4 Attack which may target a Personality with attached Followers if you have Reconaissance." Iron Will: "Reaction: After another player targets your Paragon with a Battle action performed by a Personality with lower Personal Honor: The action's costs are ignored and its effects are negated. That player may take an additional Battle action." Overpowering Assault:Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Commander and bow his performing Follower: Destroy a target enemy card without attachments.
1) Toritaka Chokichi uses his printed battle against a Paragon with higher personal honor. Who is performing the action, Chokichi or the follower? Can I cancelt it with Iron Will? 2) A commander uses Overpowering Assault against a Paragon with higher ph. Again, who is performing? The card says that both the commander and the follower are performing.
Thanks a lot!
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 18 September 2011
Hi there,
A quick question about who performs an action, if the personality or a follower. The cards involved: Toritaka Chokichi: "Battle: Bow your performing Follower: Ranged 4 Attack which may target a Personality with attached Followers if you have Reconaissance." Iron Will: "Reaction: After another player targets your Paragon with a Battle action performed by a Personality with lower Personal Honor: The action's costs are ignored and its effects are negated. That player may take an additional Battle action." Overpowering Assault:Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Commander and bow his performing Follower: Destroy a target enemy card without attachments.
1) Toritaka Chokichi uses his printed battle against a Paragon with higher personal honor. Who is performing the action, Chokichi or the follower? Can I cancelt it with Iron Will? 2) A commander uses Overpowering Assault against a Paragon with higher ph. Again, who is performing? The card says that both the commander and the follower are performing.
Thanks a lot!
1. Per the rules on performed actions, any ability printed on a Personality is performed by that Personality. Chokichi is performing the action, and so is the Follower, since the Chokichi's text states that the Follower is performing.
2. In this case, the Commander is performing, and again, so is the Follower, per the text of Overpowering Assault.
And, to answer the second half of question 1 in regard to both actions:
In both cases, Iron Will is legal to play assuming the action targeted Paragon with higher Personal Honor than the performing Personality.