Rules for 9 July 2001
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.
Greetings,
rules question
[Kitsuki Kaagi's journal] says it cancels any Ninja or Kolat action. Is any action generated by a ninja or kolat personality inherently Ninja/Kolat?
Yes. Online Gold rulebook: "When a player takes an action, the action carries with it all of the traits preceding the action type itself, as well as those of the card on which the action is printed."
Some questions.
[H]ow does Hiruma Sensei works with, say, Deadly Ground?
The defender ignores it.
[D]oes the sent-home unit goes back bowed or unbowed [from Soul's Sacrifice]?
Unbowed. If an effect does not say if it changes a card's bowed / unbowed status, it doesn't.
Fox vs Mantis question [rules guys]
How is it that the Fox Clan stonghold can use the At'tok'tuk(Rat) sensei when the sensei states Mantis not Yoritomo's Alliance can use it[...]
Because the terms are synonymous except when card text specifies they're not.
[...] when the Fox clan stronghold clearly states they may not recruit Mantis clan personalities?
Sensei aren't Personalities. I'm not seeing a problem there.
Zen Faulkes! * Crab Clan Scholar * Unaligned Rules Deputy The most Gold info on: http://www.planet.net.au/~zfaulkes/o-ushi.html