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, 17 December 2011
During a recent game, I targeted Bofana while having no cards in my hand. My opponent thought that I couldn't take the action since I couldn't discard, but I disagreed. I'd like to get an official ruling:
If a player with no cards in hand targets Bofana for the first time in a phase, does the action still occur?
Daigotsu Bofana - After the first time each phase another player's action targets Bofana: If the action was not performed by a card with (current) Force equal to or higher than Bofana's base Force, the player discards a card.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 17 December 2011
During a recent game, I targeted Bofana while having no cards in my hand. My opponent thought that I couldn't take the action since I couldn't discard, but I disagreed. I'd like to get an official ruling:
If a player with no cards in hand targets Bofana for the first time in a phase, does the action still occur?
Daigotsu Bofana - After the first time each phase another player's action targets Bofana: If the action was not performed by a card with (current) Force equal to or higher than Bofana's base Force, the player discards a card.
Because the discard Bofana forces is an effect, not a cost, the action will still occur.