replies to 25 June
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.
Come One At a Time Question
Here is the text of the gold edition COAAT: Immediate Terrain Battle: While there is only one defending Personality, the Personality may, as a Battle action, issue an unrefusable challenge to an opposing Personality, and each player may, as a Battle action, send one of his or her bowed or unbowed attacking units home bowed. The defending Personality may take one such challenge now.
1) Because of the wording, it seems as if a bowed defender can make the first challenge.
Not true. It's still an action (and I could have sworn the new wording said so. Grr.)
Another one for the rules guys.
Can Hitomi Juppun be targeted and affected by Overconfidance when he attaches the Dragon Clan Sword (Celestial or otherwise)?
Apparently, no. Nor can anyone else. It's the Directness Rule. The only result of attaching a weapon is that a Personality now has a weapon attached. Any Force or Chi bonuses come from the weapon, not the action of attaching it. Seems Overconfidence can't be used against someone attaching a Clan Sword after all. (And not only that, but Juppun will get Force from one, too.)
replies to 22-24 June
At no time has a large number of "Loyal" Personalities ever been introduced to the mix all at once, so no one ever thought to use a shorthand term for it.
Well, since AEG uses it for another game, it shouldn't be that hard to transfer, ne? ;)
I'll take it under advisement.
Wolf Legion & Lion Ninja
However, I'd be a lot more annoyed if that was the end of the shadow forever - it's survived since the beginning of time, practically and is destroyed 'just like that'.
Destroyed with the help of a god. Important technicality.
I'll take Goju Yume being gold legal and the slightly odd ability of Shosuro Chian Exp to become a ninja only when another is in play as a sign that something did.
Don't forget there are agents of the Shadow as well as relatively simple spies. The distinction is clear in the RPG, but in the CCG they unfortunately both get tagged with the "Ninja" trait.