Archipelago

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Cards

• Playing with an Archipelago, Distant Exploration comes up (Invaders Explore at +1 distance). There's an empty islet with an Isolated Ocean. Can Invaders Explore its Coastal lands from facing islet's Coastal lands?
  Only if you want to permit it. The "range 2" that Coastal lands are away from each other does need to measure through both board's Oceans, even though "2" isn't the additive number of steps to do so.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Archipelago, Explore, Range, Isolate, 1 more...

Play Options

• When playing on an Archipelago, can Many Minds Move as one Gather/Push Beasts from a coastal land on one board to a "Range 2 away" coastal land on another board?
  Yes.
  Tags: Range, Archipelago, Fly Fast As Thought (Many Minds Move as One)

Power Cards

• Can you disconnect the island using Cast Down into the Briny Deep?
  Yes. For instance, if you sink the middle board in the "Coastline" layout variant 3-player game, there are now two island boards left. By default, there is no way to get from one board to the other, but if you want (player option), you may treat lands that were Range 2 from each other before the sinking as still being Range 2 after the sinking, per the Archipelago rules. (This can be annoying to track, which is why it's not a mandatory rule.)

  The Archipelago rules do not apply, since the coasts are not facing each other and it is not game setup.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Island setup, Archipelago, Player-convenience choices, Cast Down into the Briny Deep, 0 more...
• With an Archipelago, can Entwined Power's 'target via each others Presence' let you avoid paying 1 Energy to target a Spirit you don't otherwise share an islet with?
  Yes. The check for "Do you share an islet with the Spirit you're targeting?" (and 1-Energy cost if not) is part of targeting the Power.
  Tags: Archipelago, Entwined Power, Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island)

Spirits and Innate Powers

• When playing on an archipelago, do two Spirits with Presence in The Endless Dark count as being on the same islet?
  Not unless they were already sharing an islet anyway. The Endless Dark isn't on any island board, so it's not part of any islet.
  Tags: Archipelago, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine
• If playing with Ocean's Hungry Grasp and you Weave Together a land with an Ocean, how does that work? What if Ocean's Hungry Grasp loses all their Presence from that board?
  The joined land and all adjacent lands will be Coastal for all purposes, including Invader Actions. Invaders/Dahan already in the joined land don't trigger Ocean In Play (which Drowns after they move in), but when Weave Together wears off you can "move" pieces to the Ocean and Drown them. The joined land is a land all the time, not just for Powers/Blight, so other actions (Fear/Event/Invader/etc) affect it normally. Note that adding a piece (from, eg, a Build) is not the same as moving it; moving triggers Drowning, while adding does not.

  If OHG loses all Presence from the board, the joined land remains in play (and retains the printed Ocean area as part of its topology, so makes adjacent lands Coastal), but Ocean In Play no longer applies to it, so Invaders/Dahan aren't Drowned after moving there and it's no longer a Wetland for purposes of Powers/Blight (unless it's a Wetland for other reasons).

  In the extremely weird event that two Oceans are Woven directly together (via Finder of Paths Unseen) and OHG loses their Presence from both of them, the joined land stops being a land, but remains topologically joined. (This is possibly relevant if playing with an Archipelago.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Land Types, Archipelago, Weave Together the Fabric of Place, Open the Ways (Finder of Paths Unseen), 3 more...