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 March 2012
I came across the following in the EE Rules Glossary today:
"Ranged Attack targeting occurs during action resolution and so is not required (see Abilities and actions, Required targeting). In other words, a Ranged Attack’s target or targets need not be legal or exist in order to announce the action. "
So say I have a personality with Tsuruchi Daikyu, unopposed, at the present battlefield. I already took 3 battle actions this battle. Can I announce the RA from the bow, have it "fizzle" due to the no valid targets, yet still count as resolved (since *required* targeting and costs were paid) to satisfy the 4th and thus Ring of Water's entering play condition?
Somehow it doesn't seem right...
Alex Jones (rules official), 22 March 2012
I came across the following in the EE Rules Glossary today:
"Ranged Attack targeting occurs during action resolution and so is not required (see Abilities and actions, Required targeting). In other words, a Ranged Attack’s target or targets need not be legal or exist in order to announce the action. "
So say I have a personality with Tsuruchi Daikyu, unopposed, at the present battlefield. I already took 3 battle actions this battle. Can I announce the RA from the bow, have it "fizzle" due to the no valid targets, yet still count as resolved (since *required* targeting and costs were paid) to satisfy the 4th and thus Ring of Water's entering play condition?
Somehow it doesn't seem right...
This is perfectly legal, as of Emperor Edition.
Previously, the target of a Ranged Attack was (generally) a required target of the action, so if there were no legal targets, the action could not be announced. However, as of Emperor Edition, required targets are exactly those specified in the constraints block: targeting in the effects block is not covered by Required Targeting.
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