Cactus Game Design Message Boards

1.Does the Kings version (warrior class character) of Captain of the host negate special abilities on other warrior class characters as well (but not including itself?)


2.Can you play a good set aside enhancement during battle and set aside your last character in battle and just basically leave battle? (As long as they have initiative to play an enhancement)

Example: a player plays (Gold brigade Prayer and fasting SA set a side hero and increase 1/1 each turn set aside) on their hero in battle and leaves battle by setting their own hero aside.



3. If an ability says "a" or "an" does this mean you can target another card other than your own with it? If it does not say "Your" or "your character" in the SA?

Example These abilities do not say your or your characters in them

 Equipped for the Mission part of SA: Set a Hero aside

 Passover Preparations part of SA: Set aside a Hero

King Belshazzar SA You may search a discard pile for a temple artifact   (Can you search your opponent's discard pile for a temple artifact?)

 

3.1 Unless a set aside enhancement says "set aside an opponent's character" etc" can you only target your characters with them?



4. Drunkenness (TEC) enhancement  X = Number of draw abilities used on opponent's cards this turn.

  If Matthew drew 3 cards , does X=3?  or 1?



5. Is it true that when a player "negates" a special ability do you treat it as "the ability never happened?" (or does this" ability never happened only applies to "instead" abilities?) while the ability is still being negated?

Example: 

Matthew draws 3 cards , Evil character blocks , then blocker plays Drunkenness (SA Negate a Hero Shuffle up to X random cards from opponent's hand) 

X = Number of draw abilities used on opponent's cards this turn.

5.1 Since the draw was negated does X = 3 , 1 or 0?

For question #1 the

 Play as for Kings Captain of the host on Wiki says:

Negate all special abilities on characters and enhancements ( except banding , weapons and Captain's special abilities)

3. Confirmation of the set-aside part, and clarification of 3.1:

Quote from: The REG

Set aside enhancements played outside of battle cannot target cards controlled by an opponent (unless the enhancement is a territory class enhancement).

On Belshazzar, agree, he can search a discard pile, which expands the default targeting beyond your own.

Another question regarding set aside:

1.So If a hero was in battle and the hero played enhancement Equipped for the Mission SA "set aside a hero" can they now target any other opponent's heroes with it and set them aside? 

2. if  Player A's hero and Player B's evil character in battle was set aside by Player B's Nebby's pride enhancement (SA Interrupt the battle and set aside all characters and sites in battle for 4 turns)

    Does each character get set aside to their owner's territories?  Player A has hero in their set aside area etc?

Wow, I never realized these possibilities for set-aside cards, I always thought that they were weak!

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So... with the new Prayer and Fasting I can set aside all my opponents missionaries, they would come back on their turn, and then I could use the ability, or better yet, set them all aside and use Darius' Decree?

No. Set asides that give a benefit cannot be used on opponent's characters.

Where is this in the rulebook?

Forgot to answer the other question here...

5. Is it true that when a player "negates" a special ability do you treat it as "the ability never happened?" (or does this" ability never happened only applies to "instead" abilities?) while the ability is still being negated?

Example: 

Matthew draws 3 cards , Evil character blocks , then blocker plays Drunkenness (SA Negate a Hero Shuffle up to X random cards from opponent's hand) 

X = Number of draw abilities used on opponent's cards this turn.

5.1 Since the draw was negated does X = 3 , 1 or 0?

Back to this question, I am sticking with my original thought that this would be 1 card.  The reason is as follows:

Drunkenness shuffles a number of cards equal to the number of draw abilities 'used' by the opponent.  Even if it is negated, the ability was still 'used.'  This is unlike Foreign Wives, which has an X based on cards 'drawn,' where if the draw is negated that draw is 'undone' and 'no cards were drawn' for the ability to use.  The ability was used, it was just undone.

Instead, however, would make the X=0.  So, if Rain Becomes Dust were active, then as you mentioned the draw 'never happened' because the cards were revealed instead.