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Weapons are not placed enhancements, in or out of battle, and do not interact with Children's ability at all.

If a card is protected from a character it is protected from all enhancements played by that character.

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Quote from: Kevinthedude on August 17, 2017, 02:35:11 AM

Weapons are not placed enhancements, in or out of battle, and do not interact with Children's ability at all.

Question about that.  This is quoted from the REG, under the "Weapon-class Enhancement" entry:

Quote from: REG_v4.1.2

Weapon-class enhancements may be held by warrior-class characters outside of battle, and may be placed on a warrior-class character during a player’s preparation or discard phases. The special ability on a weapon-class enhancement only activates in battle.  Outside of battle, weapon-class enhancements follow the same rules as placed cards by following their bearers to any location in which they are moved.

Going by that, it seems to me that W.C. enhancements are, in fact, placed on W.C. characters, in which case CoL's ability should apply to them.
Am I wrong?  If so, why?

It seems that way because the REG often uses the same words (in this case, "place") as English words in some places and Card Language in others. In this entry, the word "place" is an English word that is referring to the physical action of putting the weapon on the table. When CoL uses the word "place" in it's ability, it is referring to cards that are placed on it via a place ability. Weapons are not put on the characters via an ability. The line about them following the rules of placed enhancements just explains the circumstances in which they do or don't stick to the character. To avoid this confusion the entry should say something like "may be attached" instead of "may be placed" and include the specific rules they follow once attached instead of telling you to go check the entry of a completely different ability.