Dripping Poison
Legend of the Five Rings card from Forbidden Knowledge
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Item
- Force
- +0
- Chi
- +0
- Gold Cost
- 5
- Keywords
- Poison
- Card Text
- Will only attach to a Ninja.
After this card enters play: Put four Vial tokens on it.
Repeatable Limited: Bow this Personality, destroy a Vial token on this card, and target a Personality with less Chi than this Personality: Give him a -1C Poison token. Until the game ends, after the target is destroyed for having 0 Chi, lose Honor equal to the target's base Chi. - Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Clan Wars (Imperial)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Forbidden Knowledge
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Artist
- Ron Spencer
- Publisher
- Five Rings Publishing Group
Rulings
- Once you've placed a poison token on a Personality, you lose honor if any effect kills that Personality by reducing his Chi to 0, even if he has no poison tokens on him at the time. [DW, 9/12/96] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 51
Rules Q&A
- Q: Ninja Items? Actions? Holdings? Do Cards which can only be attached to a Ninja have the Ninja Trait? (Eg. Dripping Poison, Climbing Gear, Nagateppo, Han-Kyu)
A: No. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 18 March 2001", 24 Mar 2001 - Q: Dripping Poison Is Dripping Poison Discarded when It has No vials left?
A: No. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 18 March 2001", 24 Mar 2001