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, 9 August 2012
Paralyzing Touch As a Focus Effect: After this duel ends, negate the effects of the next action performed by its winner. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Monk and target an enemy Personality: Move him to a different battlefield. Bow him if he moved.
As it's printed, you can move an enemy Personality to the current battlefield from a different one, and to a different battlefield from the current one (please correct me if I'm wrong on either count). However can it move a personality from home to the performer's battlefield (a.k.a. the current battlefield)? In other words, does the phrasing "different battlefield" mean that the target has to be at a battlefield?
Less than a week 'til GenCon, so hoping to hear something soon. Thanks!
Jon Palmer (rules official), 12 August 2012
Paralyzing Touch As a Focus Effect: After this duel ends, negate the effects of the next action performed by its winner. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Monk and target an enemy Personality: Move him to a different battlefield. Bow him if he moved.
As it's printed, you can move an enemy Personality to the current battlefield from a different one, and to a different battlefield from the current one (please correct me if I'm wrong on either count). However can it move a personality from home to the performer's battlefield (a.k.a. the current battlefield)? In other words, does the phrasing "different battlefield" mean that the target has to be at a battlefield?
Less than a week 'til GenCon, so hoping to hear something soon. Thanks!
No. As "home" is not a battlefield, a Personality at home cannot move to a different battlefield.
A player, 12 August 2012
Just wanted to touch on Mike's other question that was alluded to but not specifically asked.
Can Paralyzing Touch harpoon from another battlefield into the current one? For some reason, I don't think that was the intended design of the card, as harpoon into the current battlefield bowed seems a bit broken.
Relevant text Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Monk and target an enemy Personality: Move him to a different battlefield. Bow him if he moved.
Anthony
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 12 August 2012
Can Paralyzing Touch harpoon from another battlefield into the current one?
Yes.
As far as Mike's question above, he assumed what you're asking to be true, with the request to correct him if he was wrong. He was not wrong, so not specific mention of the scenario was made in Jon's answer.