Island Boards

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• What happens when the Deeps Aspect expands an Ocean onto another board? How about if it connects two Oceans from different boards?
  When the Deeps Aspect sinks a land, that land becomes part of the Ocean on its board, whether or not it's actually adjacent to the printed Ocean on that board.

  By expanding in from another board, it's thus possible to make an Ocean that's split into two parts: the printed Ocean and the bay formed from the Ocean on another board. Since the two parts make up a single Ocean, they're one land any time the Ocean is treated as a land, all pieces in one are also in the other, etc. While it may be more thematic for each land to become part of the Ocean it was sunk from, playing that way ends up raising a bunch of extra rules questions and requires extra tracking.

  Connecting two Oceans from different boards just means that those Oceans are now adjacent to each other; they don't merge into a mega-Ocean.
  Tags: Island Boards, Deeps Aspect (Ocean's Hungry Grasp)

General Play

• If you manage to create a land with no adjacent lands, how do things like Blight cascades or Push work? Can you target it from lands Range 2+ away?
  

  • There are no adjacent lands to add Blight to, so Blight does not cascade.
  • Push can't Push anything (unless you can Push to a land 2 away - eg, Many Minds Move as One - and there's a land 2 away, see below).
  • Whether you can target the land depends on whether you can measure Range from your Presence to it. If you made a disjoint land via Cast Down into the Briny Deep + Absolute Stasis, yes, because the land is Range 2 from other lands. But if you completely wall off a land via Repeats of Absolute Stasis, then there's no way to measure Range to it, so the only way to target Powers there would be to either have Presence in the land or the ability to ignore range (eg, Finder of Paths Unseen).

  Note that Isolate is NOT usually sufficient to generate any of these situations, since it only affects adjacency for Invader pieces (JE rules, p. 10).
  Tags: Island Boards, Push, Range, Targeting, 2 more...

Power Cards

• For the threshold of Dream of the Untouched Land: Should it respect the "don't use together" icons on the boards? What if we have 6 players?
  No, randomly select from all unused boards. If you have 6 players, you're component-limited (and thus don't add the board) unless you happen to have a spare copy of the game handy.

  If you are unable to add an extra board, you do not get to skip Builds and "Each Board" Adversary actions.
  Tags: Island Boards, Dream of the Untouched Land