Rules for 1 August 2004
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.
Your Rules for Sunday, August 1, 2004
Kisada Sensei
Kisada Sensei: If your Family Honor is above 10, you can only gain Honor as the result of battles and duels.
Does the Sensei negate all honor gains if I am above 10 when I start to gain the honor? Would it be reasonable to follow Shadowlands rulings about honor gains when I am above 10, as far as being able to redirect the gains, Dirty Politics them, Nagori/Shizue them, etc? Or would the Sensei actually wait until I am about to gain the honor to negate it, so the gain can be reacted to as normal, and then goes poof if I am still going to get the honor after every one has passed?
It is a trait. Traits go before Reactions. It would always Negate the Honor gains before anyone could React to them.
Pick Your Battles
If the battle is a tie. Does the other side still get destroyed as a result of the tie if I play Pick Your Battles?
Pick Your Battles refers to "your army," in the first sentence and never changes that context through the rest of its effects. All it does, it does within the context of your army. It does nothing to the other army.
That looks like there was just one question that was not Wrath-related on Sunday. If I missed your question, please repost it with the flag [RULES] as part of a distinct and clear subject line. I'll get back to your at the first opportunity.