Announcing Traits

L5R CCG Rules board, 12 July 2012 to 13 July 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, 12 July 2012

Is a player obligated to announce in-play traits when they trigger such as the province strength reduction in Yoritomo's Guidance? Or do they automatically occur (as traits are non-optional in certain cases) and its up to the players to remember its triggers and effects?

The good player in me says you should say something, but for some reason I could swear I have heard something to the contrary.

Jon Palmer (rules official), 13 July 2012

Is a player obligated to announce in-play traits when they trigger such as the province strength reduction in Yoritomo's Guidance? Or do they automatically occur (as traits are non-optional in certain cases) and its up to the players to remember its triggers and effects?

The good player in me says you should say something, but for some reason I could swear I have heard something to the contrary.

Yes, any triggered traits should be announced when they trigger.