Benten's Blessing

L5R CCG Rules board, 5 May 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, 5 May 2012

Since this is a reaction, I can change the target to one of my personalities that is NOT at the same location as the original target, correct?

Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 May 2012

Since this is a reaction, I can change the target to one of my personalities that is NOT at the same location as the original target, correct?

Only if the Personality is still a legal target for the action despite being at a different location (remember the Rule of Location).

For instance, if the attacker uses a Ranged Attack with No Hiding Place to target a Personality in your home, you may use Benten's Blessing to make him target a Personality in the current battle. However, if he was using a Ranged Attack on a Personality in the current battle, you may not use Benten's Blessing to make him target someone in another battle, as that Personality is not a legal target.