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, 10 May 2012
So this came up in a game the other and I just wanted to double check that we played it correctly. Player A (Spider, go spider!) announces an action, in this instance it was A Brave New World. Player B (dirty dishonor player) reacts to announcing with Bad Kharma. Player A then reacts to the Bad Kharma with my copy of Inexorable. Do I now get to resolve my Brave New World without paying the cost of discarding a card? Bad Kharma tells me only to ignore the costs but doesn't negate anything anymore due to my Inexorable. We played on without me having to discard, which seems pretty great but wanted to check we played it correctly.
Relavent Text:
Bad Kharma- Reaction: After another player with Family Honor of -1 or lower announces an action on a Strategy: He ignores the action's costs. Negate its effects.
Inexorable- Reaction: After another player announces a Reaction during the Combat Segment: Its effects will not negate other effects.
A Brave New World- Battle: Choose your performing Personality and discard a card: Move your Personality to the current battlefield. Straighten his unit if he moved.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 10 May 2012
So this came up in a game the other and I just wanted to double check that we played it correctly. Player A (Spider, go spider!) announces an action, in this instance it was A Brave New World. Player B (dirty dishonor player) reacts to announcing with Bad Kharma. Player A then reacts to the Bad Kharma with my copy of Inexorable. Do I now get to resolve my Brave New World without paying the cost of discarding a card? Bad Kharma tells me only to ignore the costs but doesn't negate anything anymore due to my Inexorable. We played on without me having to discard, which seems pretty great but wanted to check we played it correctly.
Relavent Text:
Bad Kharma- Reaction: After another player with Family Honor of -1 or lower announces an action on a Strategy: He ignores the action's costs. Negate its effects.
Inexorable- Reaction: After another player announces a Reaction during the Combat Segment: Its effects will not negate other effects.
A Brave New World- Battle: Choose your performing Personality and discard a card: Move your Personality to the current battlefield. Straighten his unit if he moved.
You played it correctly.
Inexorable would cause the negation from Bad Kharma to fail, but its effect letting you ignore the action's cost still happens.