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Subj: [L5RINFO] rulings for 4-9 Jan. 2000
From: Jeff Alexander <jwa0@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: L5RINFO@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:01:30 PST
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>From: Connor Alexander <Parodoxiom@AOL.COM>
>Subject: little naga shugenja help...
>
>hey all...i'm making a very fun naga shugenja black wind from the soul deck
>based around qakar and came upon a dilemma... When you cast BWftS, it
>destroys the shugenja involved, but not the spell. So...is there any way to
>keep the shugenja from dying while keeping the spell attached. Things like
>Feign, Sight of Death, etc, all send you to the discard pile first. So I
>would like to know if there is a way to preserve... Thanks all...
Try the Golden Obi of the Sun Goddess. You'll need to raise
his Personal Honor above two first.
Two other cards that prevent death but won't ever be legal
are the Ancestral Armor of the Phoenix (can only attach to a
Phoenix Clan Samurai) and Utter Defeat (only works on death due
to battle or duel resolutions).
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>From: dustin howard <whowhoamamii@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Question: Imperial Palace Guard
>
>If Imperial Palace guard is moved onto a unit already assigned
>to attack with any of the various follower movement cards,
>like Forward March, will it be destroyed.
"Immune to fear. If this unit is assigned to an
attacking army, the Palace Guard is destroyed."
It's only "assigning" if it happens during the Infantry or
Cavalry Maneuvers segments. Moving is not assigning. They'll
be safe.
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>Subject: Hiruma Sensei vs. Trenches
Short answer: Trenches takes priority.
Hiruma Sensei does not override an action's own inherent limits
on when it is and is not usable (even when they're worded to *look*
like restrictions). I saw the point brought up that it doesn't let
you play Limited actions during battle, for example -- that's a very
good way of looking at it.
Hiruma Sensei also does not override targetting restrictions. It
won't let you, say, target a normal ranged attack at a Personality who
has Followers or is carrying Kaagi's Journal.
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>From: Kansu Shadolin <bereklan@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: touching the void Q
>
>can you draw the cards for touching the void when you have cards in your
>hand after you play it?
No. This one was addressed in the latest Herald. If your
hand is not empty after playing it, neither effect happens.
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>From: Hiruma Nekokaburi <lwolf-nekokaburi@POWERUP.COM.AU>
>Subject: Oracle of Earth and Ruins of Isawa Castle
>
>If using a Root the Mountain kiho:
>
>Considering that the fetch action on the Ruins of Isawa Castle also
>plays the kiho, and the Oracle of Earth plays the terrain being used
>with its action, is it possible to use the Isawa Castle stronghold to
>fetch and play a kiho and use Oracle of Earth to make it indestructable?
>
>I'm guessing not, but I wanted to check...
I'd say it's legal. You use the Oracle as a Battle Action
to play a terrain. If that terrain is also a kiho, the Castle's
reaction is legal.
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>From: MitsuMan Monk <mitsuman_monk@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: Ninja Tricks 2nd Shout
>
>Second shout doesnt target anyone but the controllers dueler. You cant Way
>of Shadow it.
Actually, it doesn't target anything at all. Which yields
the same answer: Way of Shadow can't cancel it.
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>From: Ray Daugherty <raynalb@NYCAP.RR.COM>
>Subject: Shady Dealings/Kolat Recruiter
>
>Can Shady Dealings be used to help pay for the cost of the personality in
>Kolat Recruiter? In other words, is an action card's cost only related to
>the gold cost in the center of the card, or does it also include any gold
>cost included as part of the text?
Only the cost in the center of the card. Shady Dealings
can't help here.
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>From: Noah overton <puckstpr39@YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Tchickchuk?
>
>Tchickchuk,
>Reaction: Bow to reduce to zero the gold cost of a Ratling that is being put
>into play. A Ratling Follower can be attacked to Tchickchuk when he performs
>this action.
>
>ok here is the question? for him to attach a follower does it have to be the
>one that the gold cost was reduce.
No.
>can you reduce the cost of a different card, and then pay for a follower
>that
>you attach to Tchickchuk.
Yes...provided you can find a way to straighten T'chik'chuk
after you've used him, since Personalities cannot attach cards
while they're bowed.
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>From: Rich & Noel <dragnskya@JUNO.COM>
>Subject: Re: [l5rusefulinfo] Re: [L5R] Odd Questions
>
>On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 04:24:27 GMT jwa@wlv.to.gd-es.com (Jeff W. Alexander)
>writes:
>>>If a personality recieves an innate Root the Mountain with Blessings
>>>of Isawa and later casts it again, what happens when...
>>>* the battle ends? Root the Mountain remains attached to the caster,
>>>right?
>> Wrong. Active Terrains go into the discard pile once
>>they're over with. (I can't find exactly when -- the rules
>>apparently never mention this, but it's obviously true since
>>terrains don't stay in play forever.) The kiho attached via
>>Blessings of Isawa is still a separate card, and if it leaves
>>the shugenja, the ability is also lost.
>
>When was this ruling made?
Sometime between February and August of last year. Sorry I
can't be more specific.
> By the wording of Blessings of Isawa, the
>attachment of the Kiho Card is about as relevant as your appendix, a mere
>side-effect of the permanent change. Was Blessings determined to read
>other than follows?
>
>"Blessings of Isawa (U Event [DJH]): The next Kiho performed is attached
>permanently to the Personality performing it and becomes an ability of
>that personality. The personality cannot use the ability more than once
>per turn."
>
>It's seems like two seperate effects are being treated as the same
>effect. It strikes me as being similar to the notion that straightening
>someone who had been sent home from a battle with Block Supply Lines
>should somehow return them to the battle, since they were both sent home
>and bowed by the same card. Blessings 1) attaches the kiho to the
>personality, and 2) makes the kiho action an ability of the personality,
>unless there was a wording change that I missed.
o Designer's intent / alternate readings. There's no reason
to even make the attachment if it's completely separate from
granting the ability.
o It allows us to preserve hard, single-use limitations on
truly powerful kiho like Hate's Heart.
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>From: James Collier <smalltownpress@AZTEC-NET.COM>
>Subject: bringing cards into play
>
> One of my recent opponents used Inheritance as part payment for a Kolat
>Master.
> Does "bringing a card into play" mean putting one out onto the table,
>like a personality, follower, or item, or does it also mean playing a card?
It also means playing a card. Inheritance can pay for things
like Kolat Master.
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>From: JRT <0312673.ws@VULCAN.HRO.NL>
>Subject: Need ruling:Hirariko [FRPG]
>
>Hirariko (U Personality [AoD]):
>2F 4C -H 8G 0PH * Unaligned Ninja. Lose 2 honor. Items provide no
>bonuses or special effects in a duel against Hirariko. *
>
>Question:
>Does hirariko's ability affect both hirariko and her opponent in a duel
>or just the opponent?
Just her opponent. Who said ninja were fair?
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>From: Gordon Jeffrey <togashigordon@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: Shoju Sensei Q
>
>If my opponent uses Shoju Sensei with that Mantis guy who returns to play
>immediately, can I kill him to stop Shoju?
Yes. "Returning to play" doesn't undo his death, and one
single death is enough to end Shoju Sensei's effect.
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>From: Bruce Mackay <scottie@UDEL.EDU>
>Subject: Toturi's Army Listserv + Ninja Question
>
> Firstly the question. The ninja stronghold base says you can as a
>battle action "If the total Chi of an army attacking one of your Provinces
>is less than 10, send all attackers home, bowed. " The question that we
>came up with, can you only do this once per turn or once per battle, ie if
>three of your provinces are being attacked can you send each opposing army
>home in each battle using the base? We checked the accumulated rulings/faq
>but we weren't able to find an answer.
There is no limit on how many times it can be used per
turn or per battle.
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