Dahan Threaten

Frequently Asked Questions

Definitions

• When an effect reduces the Health of a piece (or it loses a bonus to Health), and it has already taken damage equal to its new health, is it destroyed immediately?
  Yes. (Branch & Claw rulebook p. 16)

  Invaders and Dahan have Health and take Damage. As soon as they have taken as much Damage as their Health, they are destroyed, whether that comes from taking more Damage or having their Health reduced.

  Unlike in some other games, doing Damage normally doesn't reduce the Health of the Invaders; there are two separate totals.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Health, Damage, Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid, Years of Little Rain, 6 more...
• When you ¨Remove 3 Health worth of Invaders”, can you Remove 3 damaged Towns?
  No, the Health of an Invader doesn't change when it takes Damage. Damaged Towns still count for 2 Health each.

  A few effects (e.g., Kingdom of England Level 5, or some Event/Fear cards) modify Health, and this does affect how many Invaders you can Remove. But Damage does not reduce Health. (Health is simply the total amount of Damage it takes to destroy something.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Health, Seek Safety, Belief Takes Root, 14 more...

Effect Rules

• What's the timing of Strife removal? When Invaders have reduced Health per Strife, do they get it back before damage is dealt?
  The Strife is removed before they deal Damage (JE rules p. 7, Ravage Timing sidebar). This means that if their Health is reduced by Strife (via effects like the Panic Fear card) they get their Health restored first.

  This matters if Dahan are dealing damage simultaneously to Invaders, with powers like Words of Warning or Why Don't You and Them Fight.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Strife, Ravage, Panic, Unrest, 5 more...

Fear and Fear Cards

• If a Fear cards tells you to add Strife and then do something to pieces with Strife, does that affect just the newly-added Strife?
  No, it affects all pieces with Strife anywhere on the board, whether or not you put a new token on it.

  Remember that Strife, unlike the other tokens, is always assigned to a particular Invader.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Strife, Unrest, Dahan Threaten, Discord, 3 more...

General Play

• What's the timing of ongoing effects expiring?
  All "this turn" effects wear off at the same time. For now, assume all normal Time Passes activity (discard, lose elements, clear damage, ongoing effects expire) is simultaneous. Cards like Gift of Constancy (which modify discarding Powers) or Unquenchable Flames work because they explicitly specify a timing.

  Rules for non-standard things that happen during Time Passes (like Shroud of Silent Mist's Slow and Silent Death) can be done before or after effects wearing off unless otherwise specified.

  If it ever becomes clear that there really ought to be some sort of internal ordering to Time Passes, we'll call out that ordering in whatever expansion / FAQ it becomes relevant.
  Tags: Time Passes, Timing, Defend, Action Modifiers, 33 more...
• If an Event or Fear Card has multiple instructions, only *some* of which are "each", how many actions is that? Eg: Dahan Threaten has each player add a Strife, then applies a rule where Strife lowers Invader Health.
  Then the whole Fear Card / Event is one action, with one nested action per "each". (So for Dahan Threaten, each player adding Strife is a nested action within the initial Fear Action.)

  The entire "how many actions is it?" determination is:

  • If it just does 1 thing, it's 1 action.
  • If it has only "each" instructions, it's 1 action per "each".
  • Otherwise, it's 1 action, and "each" instructions cause 1 nested action per "each".

  Up-front conditionals (like on Foreign Dignitaries Visit, Harvest Bounty Harvest Dust, and the "choose one" in Choice Events) aren't part of the action - you check the conditional, figure out which one to do, then proceed as above.
  Tags: Actions, Choice Events, Harvest Bounty, Harvest Dust, Foreign Dignitaries Visit, 1 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• If an effect changes the Health of all pieces that meet a particular condition, does that affect pieces in The Endless Dark?
  Yes, so long as it checks the traits of the piece itself (e.g., what type it is, how much Strife it has) rather than the traits of the land it’s in (e.g., if Blight is present, if at least 3+ Invaders are present).
  Tags: Health, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Kingdom of England, 9 more...