Rules for 29 January 2005
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 Saturday, January 29, 2005
strategic crossroads
can i play strategic crossroads in a battle where I have no presence?
No. Playing Strategic Crossroads creates - another - Action that players could use, but does not itself directly give you a unit at the Battle when you play the Terrain.
Seek the Path Q? [RULES]
For the purposes of Seek the Path, does the City of Blood's effect count as searching your deck?
Seek the Path: Kiho Reaction: Target one of your unbowed shugenja or monks before a player searches his or her deck fate for a card to force that player to draw the top card of his or her fate deck instead. Draw a card.
City of Blood: Maho Limited: Bow a Bloodspeaker personality you control: Once per turn, look at the top 4 cards of your fate deck. You may show one spell or maho card, then put it in your hand. You may shuffle the deck.
City of Blood does not search your deck.
Mirumoto Gukochi question...
This has sort of been bothering me for some time now. I was wondering, when does Mirumotot Gukochi's reaction trigger. Is it after the duel is over, or does it trigger at the same time as say the trait on Blade of Penance.
Same trigger as Blade of Penance - after you determine that he's the winner by comparing stat-totals - though Gukochi says, "after" and Blade of Penance says, "when."
Or is the "while" a duration effect which means it continually adjusts the units force based on Gukochi's current chi? Mainly we have been playing it the other way, but I'm not so sure.
The Chi value doesn't "lock in" when the Reaction triggers. Instead there is an on-going effect on Gukochi: "Gukochi adds his Chi to his unit’s total Force while he is unbowed." Changing his Chi during the battle will change his unit's total force.
That should cover everything from Saturday the 29th. 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.