What is the timing of Victory / Defeat?
What is the timing of Victory / Defeat?
Check Victory/Defeat after each action tree is entirely complete – i.e., when you're not in the middle of an action, and there are no pending triggered actions. Example: if a Ravage action destroys a Spirit's last Presence, you still finish the Ravage action (which might involve a Dahan counterattack), plus any actions it triggers (e.g., "Blood Draws Predators"), but you do not resolve any further Ravages from the same Ravage Card.
This is a slight rules change; it was originally released on this site before being formally published in the Nature Incarnate expansion. (The core game rules say to check for Victory/Defeat immediately and the Jagged Earth rules say to check after each and every action, which could be in the middle of a tree of actions – e.g., between the Ravage action and "Blood Draws Predators".)
For loss conditions which key off of "you try to do something but can't" (e.g: The Kingdom of France's loss condition, when you are unable to add a Town), the loss is noted as soon as that happens, but you may play out the rest of the action tree to see if you achieve a Sacrifice Victory. Other loss conditions, like The Kingdom of England, are only checked when the tree is complete.
