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 October 2011
The ruling says that Only Actions Speak creates an ongoing effect and resolves at step A of the Time sequence while rulebook rehonoring effect is a triggered rulebook effect and resolves at step B. There is another ruling that confirms it.
However the text in the current version of the Comprehensive Rules is different from what was cited (maybe there was a change in the text at some time?) and says “Apply any ongoing, continuous, or triggered effects that negate, prevent, or substitute the occurrence that defines the trigger, making the occurrence not happen in the first place.”
And rulebook rehonoring seems very much like “any triggered effect that prevents the honor gain”. I am somewhat confused. Shouldn’t it occur at the step A of the sequence too?
Then, there is an old ruling that implies that Faint Praise and OAS effects resolve at the same time. Does that mean that Faint Praise’s delayed instantaneous prevention effect happens at step A of the sequence? I am not sure whether delayed effect can be described as “triggered” since it has been already activated earlier.
Reference:
Only Actions Speak. Reaction: After an action is announced: Negate all Honor gains until after the action's resolution. At that time if this negated any gains, negate all Honor gains until the end of this phase and draw a card.
Faint Praise. Open: Before the next time this turn a player gains Honor during his Dynasty Phase or from one of his own actions, he loses that amount of Honor instead of gaining it.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 6 October 2011
The ruling says that Only Actions Speak creates an ongoing effect and resolves at step A of the Time sequence while rulebook rehonoring effect is a triggered rulebook effect and resolves at step B. There is another ruling that confirms it.
However the text in the current version of the Comprehensive Rules is different from what was cited (maybe there was a change in the text at some time?) and says “Apply any ongoing, continuous, or triggered effects that negate, prevent, or substitute the occurrence that defines the trigger, making the occurrence not happen in the first place.”
And rulebook rehonoring seems very much like “any triggered effect that prevents the honor gain”. I am somewhat confused. Shouldn’t it occur at the step A of the sequence too?
Then, there is an old ruling that implies that Faint Praise and OAS effects resolve at the same time. Does that mean that Faint Praise’s delayed instantaneous prevention effect happens at step A of the sequence? I am not sure whether delayed effect can be described as “triggered” since it has been already activated earlier.
Reference:
Only Actions Speak. Reaction: After an action is announced: Negate all Honor gains until after the action's resolution. At that time if this negated any gains, negate all Honor gains until the end of this phase and draw a card.
Faint Praise. Open: Before the next time this turn a player gains Honor during his Dynasty Phase or from one of his own actions, he loses that amount of Honor instead of gaining it.
As things currently stand, the active player would choose whether Rulebook rehonoring negation of the Honor Gain or Only Actions Speak's negation would be triggered first; they both occur in Step A.
As you noted, Step A has been modified since your first two citations. Your third citation is the most accurate, by virtue of it being the most recent.