Hidden Defenses and location(s)

L5R CCG Rules board, 1 March 2012 to 12 July 2012

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, 1 March 2012

Hidden Defenses Battle: If you control no Personalities (in play), target one or two Personalities at any location: Bow them. Negate their straightening.

If you meet the condition to play this card for this effect, and you choose to target two Personalities, need they be in the same location? The "location" construction is singular and could be read to imply that.

Not strictly related, but the EE Comprehensive Rules cuts out a little early in the entry on "Location". See

A player, 10 July 2012

What is the answer to the question at this link:

http://www.l5r.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... &p=1275465

thanks, Andrew

Alex Jones (rules official), 12 July 2012

Hidden Defenses Battle: If you control no Personalities (in play), target one or two Personalities at any location: Bow them. Negate their straightening.

If you meet the condition to play this card for this effect, and you choose to target two Personalities, need they be in the same location? The "location" construction is singular and could be read to imply that.

Not strictly related, but the EE Comprehensive Rules cuts out a little early in the entry on "Location". See

The two Personalities may be at different locations.