(Message rlau:16)
Subj: Re: Questions on the game...
From: Raymond Lau <godsfire@earthlink.net>

  To: lbsinfo@frpg.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:11:13 PDT
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>a) Can you have more than one copy of a non-unique character in play?

Yes

>b) The Hidden Keep of the Assassins reads, in part, "BATTLE: Bow to send any
>Assassin Hero you control in a Battle home, bowed."  Can this target bowed
>heros?  Otherwise, it's seems redundant to me, since any unbowed hero can
>leave a battle by bowing.

Yes, you may target your own bowed Heroes.

>c1) Are city sections limited to 3 per deck?  My girlfriend's deck for 'The
>Moto Oasis' had one City Section that only Assassins could use, and then
>four 'Jewel of the Deserts'.  Since that's all she had, we played with four
>Jewel of the Deserts.

City Sections do not have card limits place upon them. They are not part of
your deck.

>c2) Are City sections considered cards, and effected by all effects that
>effect cards?

Yes.

>c3) One City section I got was the 'Thieves Quarter', which says: "You may
>not redistribute any water to or from this City Section during the end
>phase."  Does that mean that if I raid someone's water reserves, I can't
>store any water on the Thieves Quarter?

Yes.

>d) Adnan is supposed to be Raid '-1', not Raid '1', right?  It's a little
>difficult, just looking at the card, to decide if the - is supposed to be a
>separator or a sign.  Might have helped if there was a space.

That's correct. It's a minus sign. It'll look better on the reprint.

>e1) The Tale of the Last Raid says:  "Play when one of your Heroes destroys
>an opposing Hero during  a Raid."  This is going to require a card effect,
>right, since Heroes are not normally destroyed during a raid.

yes.

>e2) Contest of Wills says: "Reaction: Immediately before the Fate Values are
>revealed in a Raid, your unbowed Hero challenges the opposing Hero to a duel
>which may not be refused.  If the Raiding Hero wins, the Raid continues as
>if this city were undefended.  If the Defending Hero winds, the Raid is
>unsuccessful."  Since the defender is declared for a Raid with it's fate
>card face up (ie, after it's revealed), when should this card be played?  I
>would think before the Attacker's fate card is played... but I dunno.



>e3) Would the duel from Contest of Wills destroy a hero?  It doesn't
>explicitly say it doesn't, and by L5R logic that means that the loser would
>die.  (These are tied together because I want to use CoW to play TotLR)

Yes

>f) Wisdom of the Stars reads: "Reaction: Play immediately after you engage a
>Hero.  Increase the damage inflicted by the Hero by 2.  Reduce this Hero's
>Ka by 1 pernamently."  If the Hero this is used on only has 1 Ka, does the
>damage from the Engagement still happen, or does his death prevent the
>damage.  On page 68 of the rulebook, it says "As soon as a Hero is
>destroyed, it goes into your Buried Discard Pile.  There are no 'parting
>shots' in Legend of the Burning Sands, and any effects which would have been
>produced by a Hero had it survived do not take effect."

The engagement would still take effect, but your hero would die immediately
after you played the card.



Raymond Lau
LBS Lead Designer
Alderac Entertainment Group

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