Rules for 27 October 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.
Greeting,
Decoy Question to Zen
According to the playgroup there, there has been some ruling on overwhelmed that prevent me from using Decoy. Is this true?
You can't use Decoy to circumvent paying a cost (like for *you* to play Overwhelmed), because Decoy saves cards *before* they are destroyed.
So I have a personality that has a decoy. You play overwhelmed, can I use the decoy to avoid death?
Yes. Precedent: Moto Chagatai, Experienced. "Chagatai does not automatically prevent himself from being sent home. The negation of his movement has to be voluntarily used. You can try to send him home for your opponent's Overwhelmed and then keep him in the battle." (JA, 23 September 2003).
I will say, though, that I had to think long and hard about this one and look through a fair number of rulings to get the answer.
rule questions feign death
[I]f two or more copies of the same Unique Personality are in play (say, after a One Life, One Destiny), they cannot be saved by "die briefly, but come back" (Feign Death, Kisada's Shrine) effects, right?
No (Diamond Edition rulesbook, pg. 56).
Rules Q
Can focuses in a duel have their values reduced to a negative number?
No (Diamond Edition rulebook, pg. 62). Count all bonuses and penalties, then round to zero last.