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, 25 July 2012
I did a search for this card but it brought up every instance someone use the word "on," not just the card title.
Am I reading this wrong or can this card actually gain honor for a player if they only gained 1 or 2 honor on their own?
Example: If my opponent has a current honor of 10 and plays Tell the Tale (Limited: Gain 1 Honor) and nothing else that phase, does he actually have a net honor gain of 3 since his honor would be reset to 10 plus the 3 from On?
On Unique Until the game ends, at the end of each phase, lower each player's Honor to what it was at the start of that phase plus 3 plus any Honor he gained from battle resolution that phase; this Honor loss will not be negated, substituted or reduced.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 28 July 2012
I did a search for this card but it brought up every instance someone use the word "on," not just the card title.
Am I reading this wrong or can this card actually gain honor for a player if they only gained 1 or 2 honor on their own?
Example: If my opponent has a current honor of 10 and plays Tell the Tale (Limited: Gain 1 Honor) and nothing else that phase, does he actually have a net honor gain of 3 since his honor would be reset to 10 plus the 3 from On?
On Unique Until the game ends, at the end of each phase, lower each player's Honor to what it was at the start of that phase plus 3 plus any Honor he gained from battle resolution that phase; this Honor loss will not be negated, substituted or reduced.
No, and that's the reason for the word "lower". On will only trigger if a player has gained more than 3 honor in a phase.