post for 20 June 2002
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.
Season of the Lion results question (to AEG)
When do the results from Season of the Lion have to be in.
The Booklet says 31/05/02 but there was a delay in despatch, so will there be an extension.....?
No, sir. No extension.
post for 10 June 2002
Playing the retrieved card is not a new and separate action, so it doesn't pick up the extra cost.
If it is all one action why can't I use it to get a supperior tactics and destroy deadly ground?
Because you don't know at the beginning of the Superior Strategist action that destroying a terrain is going to be part of its effect. Thus, you are not allowed to begin it. L5R does not, in general, allow attempting actions which are illegal at the start in the hopes that they'll become legal during the process of resolving.
Superior Tactics Question
Attempt #2
Relevent text: Target one of your Persoanlities with over 2 Chi in a battle:
Is a personality or unit at a province where a battle has all ready resolved still considered to be 'In a battle'?
Yes.
Enlightenment (card)
Is the card "Enlightenment" now gold legal?
Yes. [DA rulebook p. 80]
post for 12 June 2002
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If they are fully-fledged extra actions, would they be treated in every way like actions then? If you dont take one, isnt it the same as passing, which you would do instead of passing. I'm confused as to the difference here, since Patience was ruled that you aren't considered passing when you don't take the given action. Can you explain the difference?
Here is the logic I used to arrive at this ruling. If a card says "Take a Battle action", you do just that: you take a Battle action. It's not optional -- it doesn't say "You MAY take a Battle action." And you can't choose to pass instead, because in L5R's rulebook (unlike, say, 7th Sea's or Warlord's), passing is something that's not an action. So, if it's possible to take a Battle action, you take one. If it's not, this is treated as any other unresolvable effect, like "Draw a card" when your deck is empty. That's not passing either.
Does the alternate ruling, "Any time you have an action available, you can choose to pass" also resolve the situation? Sure. But it's a new rule that answers a question that existing rules can already answer, so the burdens and possible repercussions of adding another rule to the game need to be weighed against its benefits.
Questions
1. Can I use no hiding place to bring Daidoji Rekai Exp. 2 as an attacker into a battle with no defenders if there is a personality in the defenders home?
2. If Bayushi Paneki is Dishonored can he attach a 3 HR follower?
No. Being dishonored sets a Personality's Personal Honor to 0 after all other modifications. [rulebook p. 60]
3. My opponent has a personality 4F with a 2F bowed follower on it. If I´m targeting his unit with to do what we must, his unit is 6F or 4F.
His unit has a total Force of 4. Remember, the rules about bowed cards not adding to a unit's Force apply any time you need to know the total Force of an entire unit or army, not just during battle resolution. That includes To Do What We Must, by card text.
I his personality but not the follower is bowed, the total force of the unit is 2F or 0F?
Its total unit Force is 0.