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 May 2012
Power of Strength: Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality with 7 or higher base Force and target two enemy Personalities, each with unit Gold Cost lower than your performer's Gold Cost: Bow one of them. Ranged Attack with strength equal to the first target's Force, which may only target the other Personality (if legal).
"subtle" doubts on the phrasing:
- can you make an RA against the target that you bowed? (in other words, does "the other Personality" refer to the personality which was not chosen as the first PoS target, or to the personality not affected by the "Bow one of them" part?)
- since the order of targeting does not seem to affect which is "the one" and which is "the other", can you use whatever is the higher enemy Personalities' force for the RA strength? Example: PoS against a 3F dude + a 5F dude. Choose 5F dude as first target. Bow 3F dude ("one of them"). RA 5 against 5F dude ("the other").
Alex Jones (rules official), 24 May 2012
Power of Strength: Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality with 7 or higher base Force and target two enemy Personalities, each with unit Gold Cost lower than your performer's Gold Cost: Bow one of them. Ranged Attack with strength equal to the first target's Force, which may only target the other Personality (if legal).
"subtle" doubts on the phrasing:
- can you make an RA against the target that you bowed? (in other words, does "the other Personality" refer to the personality which was not chosen as the first PoS target, or to the personality not affected by the "Bow one of them" part?)
- since the order of targeting does not seem to affect which is "the one" and which is "the other", can you use whatever is the higher enemy Personalities' force for the RA strength? Example: PoS against a 3F dude + a 5F dude. Choose 5F dude as first target. Bow 3F dude ("one of them"). RA 5 against 5F dude ("the other").
The phrase "the first target" refers to the target chosen for the first effect.
The targeting is simultaneous, as described here, so the choice of which of the two targets is the "first target" (and thus, which is the "other target") is not made until the Resolution Step of the action: Two or more targets are chosen simultaneously if they are grouped together by a number (such as, “target two Holdings.”)
You must choose one Personality out of the two targets to bow, and the other to make a Ranged Attack against, with strength equal to the force of the Personality you chose to bow.