Rules for 28 January 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, January 28, 2004
Uso Sensei and Feign Death
Option 1: You die once, due to the duel's text. You play FD. You die again, due to Uso's text. End result: You are dead.
This is right, the key is that Uso Sensei says that the duel kills as an "additional" effect. So it kills once as a result of the duel, then it kills again from Uso Sensei.
Very, very close. It kills once as a result of the duel, then it kills again as another result of the duel. (Subtle point, but the added destruction is an effect of the duel and not an effect of Uso Sensei, by the Sensei's own text.)
Ogre Mage, human or nonhuman
Hello,
The card Ogre Mage hasn't the Nonhuman trait. In Glossary I read "Many traits implicitly make a card Nonhuman, including Creature, Naga, and Oni." Nothing explicit about Ogre.
Then, he is Human, unless otherwise is ruled.
But I also read in the Rulebook:
The family name comes first. Some Personalities do not belong to families, including cards with single names that are not family names for any other Personalities (like Omen) and cards with occupation, Faction or creature words as their first word, like Ninja Spy or Ogre Bushi. (Exception: "Tsuno"
is a family name) [DE Rulebook, Faction Alignments pag.65]
In this paragraph the first word of Ogre Bushi is OGRE. It Ogre isn't an occupation, neither Faction,... is a creature word.
Then, Ogre Mage is Creature. All Creatures are Nonhuman. The Ogre Mage is Nonhuman.
I think this kind of analysis could be confused. Finally I am not sure if Ogre Mage is Human or Nonhuman.
Q: Ogre Mage is Human or Nonhuman?
Human.
Could you reach a list of current creature words?
"Creature word" is not a formal game term. The wording on page 65 does not create a rule that Ogres are Creatures or give a list of traits that automatically imply the Creature trait.
Also for traits that implicitly make a card Nonhuman.
From the Glossary:
Oni, Goblin, Naga, and Creature imply Nonhuman.
*printed* Ratling, and printed or current Mujina, imply Creature (and thus also Nonhuman).
There is also explicit reminder that Shadowlands, Spirit, and Undead do not imply Nonhuman, but truthfully, nothing implies the Nonhuman trait except what's listed above. These reminders are only there to address common misconceptions.
Dragon trait?
Does the dragon trait mean anything? such as non-human or creature i looked in the rule book and didn't see anything but i could have missed it.
There are no special rules pertaining to the "Dragon" trait - though there are some cards that specially work on Dragon cards like Storm of Isawa or Flight of the Dragons.
That should cover everything from Friday the 28th. If I missed your question, please repost it with the flag [RULES] as part of your Clear and Distinct subject line. I'll get back to you at the first opportunity.