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Subj: [L5RINFO] Rules for 7 July 2000
From: Jeff Alexander <jwa0@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: L5RINFO@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:38:30 PDT
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>From: "Jeff T." <frostylad@EXCITE.COM>
>Subject: Re: Panic (was: Needless panic)
>
>Question: is the sales increase due to the new look of the cards?
>I know why RT failed; players got wise to the fact that it was just as cheap
>to buy singles as it was to buy a box and have a wad of 3-4 duplicate rares
>left over.
Players were supposed to have BEEN TOLD THAT up front. It
wasn't a great hidden secret that the smart managed to "get wise
to" anyway. The word wasn't spread as fast as it should have
been. That, plus many people it did reach, customer and retailer
alike, either refused to act on it or didn't realize the
magnitude of the change until they experienced it first-hand.
FRPG *knew* customers would end up buying less per expansion
than they used to. That was the *point*. Rolling Thunder was
designed to address one of the primary issues believed at the
time to be holding back potential new customers: the amount
of money needed to jump into the game from scratch with a
competitive quantity of cards.
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>From: Art Kenan <jabbrwock@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: [Rules] Toritaka Kitao vs. Akodo Dagger
>
>Okay, this is an extremely unlikely situation, but I'm using it to make sure
>I have the proper grasp of the rules.
>
>If Toritaka Kitao has an Akodo Dagger and gets targeted with an action that
>dishonors him as well as doing something else, what happens?
>
>Toritaka Kitao (C Personality [FaS] SJ): 3F 3C -H 6G 2PH * Crab Clan
>Samurai*Falcon Clan Chui Actions that would dishonor Kitao are canceled.
>
>Akodo Dagger (R2 Item [HE5] SJ): +1F +1C 3G 4Fo * Any action of card efffect
>which would dishonor this Personality does not dishonor him but produces all
>other effects normally.
>
>As I see it, there are three possibilities.
>
>First, Kitao's trait may always win, resulting in the action always getting
>canceled entirely.
>
>Second, the Akodo Dagger's trait may always win, resulting in the action
>always having its normal effect except that it doesn't dishonor him.
>
>Third (and what I think actually happens) the active player gets to decide
>which trait to deal with first, and since the traits cannot *BOTH* happen
>(each removes the conditions that would allow the other to happen),
>whichever gets dealt with first, wins.
I'm thinking it would be #2.
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>From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Almeida?= <archmage@NETCABO.PT>
>Subject: More Rules Questions
>
>Hello everybody!
>
>I'm relatively new to the 5 rings scene (I started with a Pearl Crane Deck
>and then bought some boosters from Honour Boun). I play with some friends
>but we argue a lot about the rules (wich ends the fun of the game and start
>a lot of lawyer talk) so I ask for some of your patience and some answers,
>please!
>
>First: Where can I get the updated rulings, faq (if there is one) and all
>the card errata and most recent wording (I hope that's it...), I don't seem
>to be able to find a site who has the recent...
Check my .sig at the end. It has the most recent rulings
that currently exist.
>Second: If you have the time, please answer these urgent questions for me:
>
>I played here in Portugal in the sealed deck of the pre-release of Soul of
>the Empire (So I got the new rulebook) and I have some doubts:
>
>Page 34, Personalities: It says that If a personality costs 0 gold or an
>effect pays a personality 'full gold cost',you must gain the honor. Does
>this mean that any effect (holding, action, whatever...) that reduces the
>gold cost of the personality to zero still makes you add the personal honor
>of the personality to your family total ?
Yes.
>Page 35, Ancestors: To attach a ancestor as a reaction to bringing a
>personality into play isn't it needed to pay the full gold cost anymore ? In
>the 5 points of the rulebook, it isn't mentioned nothing about that.
You still have to pay the full cost. But since Ancestors
cost 0, I don't know why you're confused.
;;;;;
>From: Stefan Lenfest <slenfest@CONCENTRIC.NET>
>Subject: Sensei Timing Question (JUNTA)
>
>OK so here is the proper sequence as far as I can tell, and as far as it
>matters:
>(1) draw fate cards
>(2) reveal SH
>(3) reveal sensei
>(4) cut/decide who goes first
>
>Is this correct?
No. (1) should be between (3) and (4).
;;;;;
>From: Kyle Voltti <voltti@NEILNET.COM>
>Subject: Card backs?????{Andy, Ed, Mindy, Anybody?????}
>
>Is this true, that the Card backs will be changing because of the
>IOC....
Yes.
;;;;;
>From: David Sachs <sachs@FNAL.GOV>
>Subject: Toichi
>
>How is Toichi's ability used? "... Elemental Battle: A number of times per
>turn up to Toichi's Chi, an opposing Personality gains +1F."
Toichi is the Earth Ring-helping Oni. Its power helps
guarantee that the attacking army has a total Force greater than
your Province strength sometime during the battle. (And yes, it's
a lot more subtle than the other Ring-helping Oni are.)
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