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, 22 November 2011
This came up in a recent game for me. I didn't bring it up at the time, but I was thinking about it afterwards and I think a mistake was made. Here is the text on The Fires of War:
Battle/Open: You may use each ability on your Stronghold a second time this turn.
My understanding of this would be that after it is played, the opposing player gets to take an action before the stronghold's ability is used again because it does not say "Take an additional action to use each each ability on your Stronghold a second time this turn." Would this be correct?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 22 November 2011
This came up in a recent game for me. I didn't bring it up at the time, but I was thinking about it afterwards and I think a mistake was made. Here is the text on The Fires of War:
Battle/Open: You may use each ability on your Stronghold a second time this turn.
My understanding of this would be that after it is played, the opposing player gets to take an action before the stronghold's ability is used again because it does not say "Take an additional action to use each each ability on your Stronghold a second time this turn." Would this be correct?
Yes, you are correct. You cannot take the second action until your next normal opportunity.