replies to the 5 June digest

Jeff Alexander, sent 10 June 2001 to the l5r-useful list, L5RINFO

A rules digest from the L5R CCG rules team, copied from the mailing list archive for Oracle of the Void. The askers' names are left out. Rulings are as they stood on this date; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.

"Soul of Foo" MRP Question

The subject kind gives away the question. Will personalities that have the "Soul of Foo" trait have a MRP affect on the original "Foo"?

No. They're different cards.

questions about Shahai

"Shahai" seems to be a MRP to "Iuchi Shahai Exp.". She now unaligned, has the trait "Dark Daughter of Fu Leng", and counts as Iuchi Shahai for uniqueness. However the trait "Experienced Iuchi Shahai" is missing. Is this a mistake? Can you still overlay the non-experienced Iuchi Shahai with this card?

Apparently not. The Shahai card walks such a fine line between new card, MRP, and reprint that it doesn't surprise me we couldn't iron all the idiosynchrocies out.

On: Iuchi Shahai, Dark Daughter of Fu Leng

LotN 4?

And for that matter, can we expect to see Mara, Daini, or their "offspring" in Alpha or a future expansion?

Yes. Yes, you can. With Matt Wilson art, no less.