Legend of the Five Rings CCG Quiz #1

Answer: True

Most tournament games are restricted to Gold Edition cards, but there are a few games out there that will still let you use any card in the game.
Having said that, I'm still waiting to see the deck that uses Jal-Pur Raiders . . .

Answer: Eagle

The Gold Edition Clans are the Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Mantis, Phoenix, Ratling, Scorpion, Unicorn, and Shadowlands.
Previously, there were also Monk, Monkey, Naga, Ninja, Spirit, and Toturi's Army clans. Things were getting out of hand. Don't even ask me about the Kolat.

Answer: 2

You play with a green-backed Fate deck and a black-backed Dynasty deck.

Answer: Followers

Your Dynasty deck consists mostly of your personalities and the holdings that purchase them. Rounding out the forty card deck are Events, Regions, Retainers, and Fortifications.

Answer: Stronghold

You don't even have to have a single member of your clan in your deck. It's the stronghold that counts.

Answer: Stronghold

Each stronghold produces gold when bowed. At the start of the game, it is your only means of paying for cards.

Answer: False

There are four methods of winning in "Legend of the Five Rings". You may destroy your opponent's four provinces (Military Victory), you may increase your Family Honor to 40 or more (Honor Victory), you may reduce your opponent's Family Honor to -20 or less (Dishonor Victory), OR you may bring all five Rings into play (Enlightenment Victory).
Out of these four, Military and Honor are easiest, while an Enlightenment Victory is very hard.

Answer: Retainers

Actions, Items, Spells, Kihos, and Followers are all kinds of Fate cards. Your hand consists of these cards, drawn from your Fate deck. Retainers are found in your Dynasty deck, and come into play from your provinces.

Answer: Lion Clan Families

Each Clan is made up of 3 or more families. Usually one family provides samurai, and one provides shugenjas (wizards). The other families provide members of clan specialties, like historians, courtiers, or tattooed men.

Answer: Only one copy can be in play

You can only have one copy in your deck, and if your opponent's copy is in play, you cannot play yours.

Answer: Initiative

Force is used for attacking, and Chi is used for dueling. The Honor Requirement states how high your family honor must be in order to bring this personality into play. The personal honor can be used to improve family honor, and also has something to say about whether you can attach certain cards to this one.

Answer: Dynasty phase

In your Event phase, you turn all the cards in your provinces face up. If you have any events show up, they go off - hence the name.
Next, you may take Actions, such as attaching cards. You opponent may take Open actions; you may take Open or Limited Actions.
Next, you may attack any or all of his provinces.
Finally, you may purchase any or all of the Dynasty cards in your provinces, so long as your gold holds out. Thus, it is called the Dynasty phase.
In your first few turns, it's better to buy gold than personalities. Trust me on this.

Answer: all of the above

Follower cards all come with an honor requirement, which means that only a personality with that level of personal honor or higher can attach them. (Some, though, have a requirement of "-", and anyone can attach them.)
Buying a personality of your clan at full price will let you add their personal honor to your family honor. Many an honor victory has been won by buying several people per turn at full price.
And finally, at least one card, the sword called Honorable, gives its personality a force and chi bonus equal to the personality's personal honor.

Answer: buy it anyway

If you pay the full 8 gold, you can add the personality's personal honor to your family honor. However, you have a choice to pay up to 2 less gold for the personality. This only works if the personality is a member of your clan, and you do NOT gain the personal honor.
An old Mantis Clan stronghold used to allow you to sacrifice honor for gold, but that was a special ability limited to them.

Answer: of a trademark dispute

Believe it or not, the OLYMPIC committee objected to the five rings in the old design, claiming sole rights to any logo featuring five interlocking rings.