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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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• When an effect moves Invaders "on each board," is the chosen board the origin or the destination for those pieces?
  Whichever it would be if you targeted a land on that board with that effect. So, for example, Gather pieces into a land on that board (from that board or a different board) or Push pieces from a land on that board (to that board or a different board). [Jagged Earth, p. 12]
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Event Cards

• Can Events on an Event Card be resolved in the order of your choice? (e.g., to get the benefit from "Canny Defense" during the Ravage cause by "New Cash Crops Take Hold" earlier on the card)
  No, the Events on a card are executed in order from top to bottom, so the extra Ravage takes place before you get the benefit of "Canny Defense."

  Likewise for "A Strange Madness Among the Beasts," the Beasts deal damage after the first part of the card (in which some of them may be removed).
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