Foreign Diseases

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• When an effect does multiple things "on each board," can each thing happen in a different land?
  Yes in principle, but most such effects specify otherwise.

  By default, as long as you're resolving everything on a particular board, you can split the effect. For example, "On Each Board: Remove 1 Beasts. Add 1 Disease" (part of the first choice of the "Life's Balance Tilts" Event) can remove a Beasts token from one land and add a Disease token to a different land on the same board. And similarly, "On Each Board: Push up to 2 Dahan" (part of the first choice of the "Hard-Working Settlers" Event) can Push 2 Dahan from different lands on the same board.

  Nevertheless, many of these effects specify that they happen in a single land on the board, which means that they can't be split. For example, if "On Each Board: Gather 1 or 2 Dahan into a land with Dahan Setup Symbols." (the "Return to Old Pillars" Dahan Event) moves two Dahan, it must move them into the same single land, since the Dahan are gathered into "a land" (singular).
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Event Cards

• When an Event deals damage to Dahan, is the damage reduced by Defend powers?
  Generally no, since it is the Event and not the Invaders that's dealing damage.

  However, Events can harm Dahan in ways that Defend can prevent:

  • If an Event causes a Ravage or increases Ravage Damage, then the ravaging Invaders are the ones dealing the Damage, and Defend works like normal.
  • If an Event explicitly makes Invaders deal Damage to Dahan (e.g., "Raiding and Retaliation" making each Town and City deal 1 Damage to Dahan) rather than generically dealing Damage in a land with Invaders, then Defend reduces that Damage unless the Event explicitly says it doesn't.
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General Play

• If an effect checks for the "most," "least," or "fewest" of something with a minimum or maximum condition (e.g., "the land with the fewest Towns/Cities (min. 1))," what happens if two conditions are in conflict (e.g., if the land with the fewest Towns/Cities has 0 Towns/Cities)?
  Nothing happens, since nothing meets both conditions.

  If a minimum or maximum limit is given, ignore anything that doesn't meet the min/max condition before ranking what's left. So when checking for "the land with the fewest Towns/Cities (min. 1)," consider only the lands with at least one Town/City before trying to find the fewest Towns/Cities among those lands.
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