post for 26 February 2003
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.
Question about gold legal
I recently decided that I wanted to play in gold legal tourneys. Two questions came out of doing a little research:
1. Evil Feeds upon Itself was listed as not legal in gold even though it has a gold bug. What's the deal?
It was deemed a misprint a couple of weeks after Spirit Wars released. It is truly not Gold-legal.
2. I was under the impression that if a personality had an experienced version in gold legal, that a less experienced version could also be used in gold legal format. (example: Doji Reju Exp. 2 and Doji Reju non-experienced version) Is the non-experienced version of Doji Reju legal in gold environment?
No. That was how Strict and Extended Jade worked. The Gold format has no such rule.
Question: Honor is my Blade
Card reads: "Battle: Target one of your Personalities and an opposing Personality with more Chi and less printed Personal Honor. Switch the Force of these two Personalities."
Where is says "less printed Personal Honor", is it referring to both Personalities, or only the other Personality. For example, if my Personalities Personal Honor were raised in some way (Monkey Magistrates, Dragon's Claw Katana, Yoshi's Fan, Wolf's Proposal, etc.) would I compare my raised Personal Honor to the opponent's printed Personal Honor, or would I compare only the printed Personal Honor of both Personalities.
The opposing Personality must have a higher current Chi and a lower printed Personal Honor than your Personality.
OFFICIAL: Vengeful Dead errata
this is why it's great that jeff makes himself available to us "lesser people" at cons. we talk to him and he acts!
Just to prevent people from getting the wrong impression, many more factors influenced this decision than one or two conversations at one convention. We've been watching the progress of this card and its effect on the environment since it released.