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, 3 January 2012
If I'm playing out of The Forgotten Temple and I do some action where my opponent plays The Power of the Word in response, do I have to lose the 3 honor or can The Forgotten Temple reduce the loss to 1 and still had the effect of my action happen?
The Power of a Word
The Forgotten Temple
Jon Palmer (rules official), 3 January 2012
If I'm playing out of The Forgotten Temple and I do some action where my opponent plays The Power of the Word in response, do I have to lose the 3 honor or can The Forgotten Temple reduce the loss to 1 and still had the effect of my action happen?
The Power of a Word
The Forgotten Temple
Per the wording on The Power of a Word, all the player needs to do to have his effects happen is choose to lose the 3 honor. If that loss is later modified it will not then negate the effects.