post for 20 May 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 Ring of Fire
I've been tooling around with a Crab duelling deck, and I tried something I'm not sure of.
Ring of Fire reads: Play this card when one of your Personalities wins a duel against a Personality who had higher Chi than your Personality before the challenge. Elemental Benefit: The controller of any Personality dueling any of your Personalities must play Focus cards face up.
Let's say I've got a 4F/2C personality in play (Crab loyalists should be able to guess who) who I target with Test of Might to challenge an 0F/4C personality to a duel of force. When I win this duel, am I elegible to play Ring of Fire? Or does Ring of Fire only apply to duels of chi?
The Ring of Fire requires that you win a duel. A Test of Might is a duel. If you win a Test of Might against a Personality who had a higher Chi than your Personality before the challenge, you may play the Ring.
Finding the Harmony and Solar Eclipse
If I have all 5 rings in play (some of them out due to FtH) does the resolution of Solar Eclipse trigger an Enlightenment victory ?
Yes.
Overwhelmed
Does Overwhelmed target your personalities? Ex: Can you use Overwhelmed if your personalities are all bowed in the battle?
It targets all the Personalities it affects: the one that its player destroys and the one or two that his opponent chooses it to apply to. The person playing it cannot target one of his own bowed Personalities with it.
temple of the 9th kami....
following this rulling from jeff, when i target a personality with the TOTNK and he reacts with Balance in Nothingness, do i still have to bow my stronghold? or does the effect of BiN cancel the action before i have to pay any costs (bow TOTNK).....
You cannot cancel an action before costs are paid -- before costs are paid, there is no action to cancel. The announced action must still be paid for.
Hi all ! And a question...
So I have a question...
- Do the "Masters of the Bells" count as a Shugenja in the ritual for Importune Kami ?
Yes. Shugenja Followers may participate in Rituals. [GE p. 63]
Be Prepared to dig two Graves
the card "Be Prepared to dig two Graves" say that the members of my faction receive +2F/+2C against a personality who killed someone of my faction. If the other player have more than one copy of that personality on play, my members of faction receive the bonus?
No. It is played against one single Personality card, not all of them with the same name.
Questions Regarding Toshimoko
If someone refuses a iajutsu challenge issued by a personality with Toshimoko No Shiryo attached, can the individual refusing commit seppeku?
Yes. Seppuku is not a Reaction. [GE p. 65]
If someone who has Toshimoko No Shiryo attached wins a duel, can Omoidasu be bowed to gain an extra 2 honor?
No. It is used "after this Personality wins a duel," which is during resolution, which is still during the duel.