Rules for 26 November 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 Friday, November 26, 2004
Pointless Sacrifice
Can I destroy Provinces with Pointless Sacrifice during a Raid Attack?
Pointless Sacrifice says, "Play as the Attacker after your army wins a battle against a defending army to destroy that Province if your army's total Force is greater than the Province's strength."
The province is destroyed by Pointless Sacrifice, not battle resolution. Any effect that specifically prevents "battle resolution" from destroying the Province won't affect Pointless Sacrifice in any way.
If the previews I've seen for Aramasu's Pride are correct, it only prevents battle resolution from destroying the Province, not card effects like Pointless Sacrifice.
Keep in mind, however, that you still need to win a battle against an actual opposing army to play Pointless Sacrifice, and you need to beat the Province Strength with your Army to get the Province-destruction effect.
Hoshi Masote
If i make his action, first I give the +2C bonus to him for example,
How do you figure. In the text you've given, his ability says that you have to target an opposing Personality - a Personality opposing the Personality with the ability.
them I target another player, he uses flee the darkness and cancel the action. Canceling means that the action never happend, the action says "once per battle" so I can make his action again.
My question is: the +2C bonus stays? Because first I give the bonus them the action is canceled, I think the previous effects are not canceled, so I could do the action again and give another +2C to my personality.
When an Action is canceled, you do not undo any of its already resolved effects.
However, as noted above, an ability on a Personality specifying an "opposing" Personality can't target someone in the same army, but rather must target someone in the other army "opposing" that Personality.
Ergo, such an ability gives the ENEMY a Chi Bonus and lets the ENEMY choose who he duels.
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