Gather

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• Can the Intensify Aspect spend any Element markers on Push, Gather, Bring, Upgrade, or Downgrade instructions?
  Yes. Push, Gather, and Bring are all special forms of Move, so they can be boosted with Water markers. Upgrade and Downgrade are special forms of Replace (or Remove, in the case of downgrading Explorers), so they can be boosted with Moon markers.
  Tags: Element markers, Upgrade, Downgrade, Push, 3 more...

Effect Rules

• What counts as "adding" a piece (e.g., adding an Invader for Confounding Mists)?
  A new piece getting placed on the board.
  

  In the Confounding Mists case, this most commonly occurs due to a Build or Explore action, but can also happen due to Events, Adversary effects, or Scenarios.

  Pieces that are pushed, gathered, brought, or otherwise moved then count as "moved," but not "added." Replacing one piece with another (or multiple others) counts as neither adding nor moving the new pieces; while the pieces representing that entity have changed, the entity itself is not a new arrival.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Replace, Push, Gather, Move, 11 more...

Fear and Fear Cards

• Can the same piece be moved multiple times with the same Event or Fear card?
  Yes, as long as any restrictions on the card are obeyed.

  For instance, the same Explorer can move multiple times with the Fear card 'Retreat!', and the same Beast can be moved multiple time with 'A Strange Madness among the Beasts'.

  If the card says players must make different choices, this must be obeyed.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Events, Fear, Gather, Push, 11 more...

Power Cards

• If two lands are joined using Weave Together the Fabric of Place, is the conjoined land considered adjacent to itself?
  Changed ruling: No. (The old ruling was creating waaay too many weird edge cases.)
  

  The original ruling was made because the definition of "Coastal" is "adjacent to the printed Ocean", and a Coastal land Woven together with an in-play Ocean should definitely still be Coastal. Turns out it's much better to just rule that that's how it works.
  Tags: Land Types, Push, Move, Gather, 4 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Are there any Powers that use the words "Push" or "Gather" that Gift of Wind-Sped Steps can't make Fast?
  Not in Horizons of Spirit Island.

  In the Jagged Earth expansion, it can't affect Gather the Scattered Light of Stars — while that Power Card has "Gather" in its name, it doesn't have a Push/Gather instruction as part of its effect. (Other expansions have similar effects that check for specific instructions.)
  Tags: Gather, Push, Action Modifiers, Checking for instructions, 4 more...
• Must Gather/Push effects which don't say "up to" move exactly that many things? Eg: Does Fields Choked with Growth move exactly 3 Dahan?
  Yes, if possible. If a card gives a number of pieces to move, you must move that number if you can, or as many as possible if there aren't enough of those pieces there.

  Most "move some Dahan" powers represent the Spirit asking/working with the Dahan or calling in favors. A few, like this one, are more "the Dahan decide to get the heck out of Dodge". This applies to other kinds of pushes, as well.

  Other cards with similar wording are Terrifying Chase (Sharp Fangs behind the Leaves), Sacrosanct Wilderness (Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds), and Twilight Fog Brings Madness.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Gather, Push, Fields Choked with Growth (A Spread of Rampant Green), Terrifying Chase (Sharp Fangs behind the Leaves), 2 more...
• If I Gather/Push/otherwise move 2 Dahan at once, can I move 2 of Thunderspeaker's Presence along with them?
  Yes.

  The special rule says "whenever a Dahan moves ... you may move 1 Presence ...". Had you been limited to a single Presence, the rule would have been phrased, "whenever 1 or more Dahan move ... you may move 1 Presence ...".
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Move, Dahan, Gather, Push, 1 more...
• Can Gift of Wind-Sped Steps affect a Power which *might* Gather or Push something, like Devouring Teeth's innate power Death Approaches From Beneath the Surface?
  Yes. Gift of Wind-Sped Steps can make Fast any Power with "Gather" or "Push" in the text effects, even if the Gather/Push is conditional or optional.
  Tags: Gather, Push, Action Modifiers, Gift of Wind-Sped Steps (Sun-Bright Whirlwind), 1 more...
• If Devouring Teeth Lurks Underfoot gets a Range bonus to Death Approaches from Beneath the Surface and targets a land at least Range 2 from its Presence, does it have to Gather Presence into that land?
  No, "Gather" can only bring in pieces from adjacent lands.

  If it used "Move" — e.g., "Move 1 Presence to the target land" — then it could happen at any Range, like Fathomless Mud of the Swamp's Spreading and Dreadful Mire.
  Tags: Targeting, Gather, Range Boosts, Death Approaches Beneath the Surface (Devouring Teeth Lurk Underfoot), 3 more...