Yoritomo Minori and Half-Naga

L5R CCG Rules board, 22 June 2012 to 23 June 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, 22 June 2012

Is Yoritomo Minori a naga or not?

Alex Jones (rules official), 22 June 2012

Is Yoritomo Minori a naga or not?

No, in the same way that "Dragon Clan and Dragon are different keywords".

A player, 22 June 2012

Continued from here.

Why doesn't the "half-" part simply modify the "naga" keyword like a "2" in "Experienced 2" modifies the Experienced keyword?

Jon Palmer (rules official), 23 June 2012

Continued from here.

Why doesn't the "half-" part simply modify the "naga" keyword like a "2" in "Experienced 2" modifies the Experienced keyword?

Because that's not how the rules work.

"Half-" doesn't modify "Half-Naga" into "Naga" and more than "ey" modifies "Monkey" into "Monk". Experience levels are a specific type of keyword.