Downpour Drenches the World

Frequently Asked Questions

Elements and Elemental Thresholds

• If you gain Elements from a Growth option, do they go away at the end of the turn?
  Yes. (Core rulebook, p. 10)
  Tags: Elements, Growth, Fractured Days Split the Sky, Lure of the Deep Wilderness, 1 more...

General Play

• If an effect says that you may X to Y (e.g., paying Energy to gain a Power Card, Destroying Presence to skip an Event on a board), are you allowed to get the second half for free if you can't do the first half?
  No, the second half is gated behind paying the cost in the first half. Similarly, "you may Y by X" requires paying the cost in the second half to get the effect in the first half.

  While this tends to be pretty obvious when the cost is paying Energy, it's less clear if the cost is performing some other effect, like discarding a card or removing Presence.

  While you must be able to pay the cost in order to get the bonus, ongoing effects can alter the final result of the cost being paid. For example, you can successfully pay the cost of "Destroy 2 Presence" even if Flowing and Silent Forms Dart By will end up saving that Presence from destruction if you do so. On the other hand, you can't attempt to pay the cost with Presence under Absolute Stasis, since that Presence only exists for Victory/Defeat – it doesn't exist as far as the Event is concerned.
  Tags: Action Modifiers, Flowing and Silent Forms Dart By, Absolute Stasis (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Turmoil's Touch (Wandering Voice Keens Delirium), 11 more...

Power Cards

• If I have one Presence in a land, and I play Entwined Power on another Spirit who has one Presence there, do we have a Sacred Site?
  You may target Powers as if you had a Sacred Site there, and they may target Powers as if they had a Sacred Site there. But for all other purposes, no, because Entwined Power only lets you use each others' Presence for targeting Powers - not for anything else, including resolving Powers.

  For instance, Gift of Living Energy (a Minor Power) wouldn't count it towards "If you have at least 2 Sacred Sites...", nor would Fear of the Unseen (a Fear Card) treat it as a Sacred Site for scaring away Invaders.

  Note that if you Entwine with River Surges in Sunlight, their River's Domain Special Rule only applies to them (read it as "counts as your Sacred Site"). So for targeting, they would treat any Wetland where either of you have Presence as a Sacred Site, but you would still need 2+ Presence as usual.
  Tags: Sacred Sites, Presence, Entwined Power, River's Domain (River Surges in Sunlight), 6 more...
• If Entwined Power is used on Downpour Drenches the World and another Spirit: can lands with 2 of the other Spirit's Presence be treated as Downpour's Sacred Sites (and thus Wetlands) while the *other* Spirit is targeting?
  No, only while Downpour is targeting. Entwined Power is "each Spirit may use the other's Presence while it is targeting", not "both Spirits' Presence belongs to both of them while either is targeting".

  There is no formal definition of "using another Spirit's Presence"; informally consider it "treat it as yours for anything related to the act of targeting".
  Tags: Targeting, Sacred Sites, Downpour Drenches the World, Entwined Power, 0 more...
• If you meet the elemental threshold for Powerstorm, can the target spirit pay for and repeat the same power multiple times?
  No, they can't.

  The elemental threshold on Powerstorm allows the target spirit to repeat up to three different power cards.

  The spirit Downpour Drenches the World is worded differently, and may repeat the same Power card.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Powerstorm, Downpour Drenches the World, Pour Down Power across the Island (Downpour Drenches the World), 0 more...

Spirit Phase

• Can you use a Presence track action in the middle of Growth?
  Yes, so long it's in between actions (or before them). Generally, each icon is one Action(†).
  

  For instance, Downpour Drenches the World could choose its second growth option (which has 2 "Add a Presence" icons), add 1 Presence to uncover a "Move Presence 1" space, use the Move 1 to shift a Presence, then place a second Presence from the new position. Or Many Minds Move as One could gain Energy with its 3rd Growth option, then use it to gain a Power Card before deciding where to place Presence.

  (†) = With an exception for icons that explicitly indicate "do this thing multiple times", like Fractured Days' "xN"s or Ocean's "....to/from EACH Ocean".
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Presence track, Actions, Downpour Drenches the World, 2 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can you take the second growth option of Downpour Drenches the World if you have only 0 or 1 Power Cards in hand?
  Yes.
  

  Discarding two cards is not listed as a requirement or cost, but as a Growth effect. You must perform that effect to the extent possible. (In this case, you would be left with no cards to play.)
  Tags: Growth, Downpour Drenches the World, Ember-Eyed Behemoth
• If a Special Rule cares about Elements, when does it check your Element total?
  Each time you use the ability. If you gain or lose Elements throughout the turn, these special rules may become stronger or weaker.

  If the special rule has a limited number of uses (e.g., Swiftness of Lightning), you can only use it again if you haven't used it more than your current Elements would allow. The total number of Elements you have had earlier in the turn doesn't matter.
  Tags: Elements, Lightning's Swift Strike, Downpour Drenches the World, Swiftness of Lightning (Lightning's Swift Strike), 1 more...
• Can a Spirit like Finder get its Presence in an in-play Ocean using "Move 1 Presence" on a growth track?
  No, because that is not a Power or Blight.

  The same applies to Presence placement during Growth or Growth options allowing movement.

  You can use Mists Shift and Flow to move Presence into the Ocean, as that happens as part of the targeting of a Power.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Move, Finder of Paths Unseen, Ocean's Hungry Grasp, 8 more...

~ Expansions, Promos, and Publishing

• How can I get the promotional Spirits from the Kickstarters? <i>(Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island and Heart of the Wildfire)</i>
  The promotional spirits from the core-game Kickstarter (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island and Heart of the Wildfire) and from the Jagged Earth Kickstarter (Downpour Drenches the World and Finder of Paths Unseen), along with the rest of the promotional items from Jagged Earth, are now packaged as part of the Feather and Flame boxed set.

  In addition, images of the promo spirit panels and their Power Cards from the first KS have been uploaded to BoardGameGeek here, so even if you can't get hold of physical copies you can still print-and-play them. (The cards are never shuffled into any decks, so don't need to match backs or cardstock.)
  Tags: Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island, Heart of the Wildfire, Downpour Drenches the World, Finder of Paths Unseen, 0 more...