The Wounded Wild Turns on its Assailants

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• If a Power both adds Badlands and deals Damage, does the Damage benefit from the new Badlands?
  It depends on whether the Damage is dealt before or after adding Badlands. If the Badlands Token arrives first, it increases the subsequent Damage; if the Damage happens first, the Badlands Token arrives too late to matter.

  Some examples:

  • Badlands arrive too late: "Desiccating Winds," "Dire Metamorphosis," "Unquenchable Flames" threshold, "Scarred and Stony Land," "Bombard with Boulders and Stinging Seeds" main effect, "Walls of Rock and Thorn" threshold, "Melt Earth Into Quicksand," "Spill Bitterness Into the Earth" main effect, *Surging Lahar."
  • Badlands present for Damage: "Bombard with Boulders and Stinging Seeds" threshold, "Settle Into Hunting-Grounds" threshold, "Forests of Living Obsidian," "The Wounded Wild Turns on Its Assailants," "Utter a Curse of Dread and Bone" main effect and threshold, "Spill Bitterness Into the Earth" threshold, "Transform to a Murderous Darkness."
    Tags: Badlands, Damage, Ordering, Desiccating Winds, 14 more...
• If an Invader is saved from destruction (e.g., by the Tsardom of Russia Level 2+), does it count towards effects that check which pieces were destroyed?
  No, since it wasn't actually destroyed.
  Tags: Saved From Destruction, Tsardom of Russia, Never Heard From Again (Lure of the Deep Wilderness), Darkness Swallows the Unwary (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), 10 more...

General Play

• When a Power cares about how many Invaders that Power destroyed (eg: Mists of Oblivion, or Shadows' innate Power), do Damage boosts (Badlands, Flame's Fury) count?
  Yes. Damage boosts increase the amount of damage done, but the damage is still being done by the original source.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Badlands, Damage, Mists of Oblivion, Darkness Swallows the Unwary (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), 9 more...
• When instructed to count multiple piece types separated by slashes (e.g., "the fewest Towns/Cities"), do players choose which piece type to count?
  No. Count all pieces that are at least one of the types on the list. So in the example, if there are 2 Towns and 1 City in the land, the total for that land is 3 Towns/Cities. In the unlikely case that a piece is on the list multiple ways, it only gets counted once.
  Tags: Counts As, Swallowed by the Wilderness (Lure of the Deep Wilderness), Lure of the Deep Wilderness, Beset by Many Troubles, 28 more...

Power Cards

• If you Repeat "Infestation of Venomous Spiders" with threshold, does the "this Power" in the threshold refer to all uses of the Power that turn, granting Damage twice from each skip?
  No, when you check what "this Power" does, it refers to one use of the Power, not every use that turn or every use that game. Any Action skipped by one use of "Infestation of Venomous Spiders" will only cause 4 Damage from that use's threshold, not any Damage from Repeating the Power.

  Similarly, "Never Heard From Again" (an Innate Power of Lure of the Deep Wilderness) grants bonus Fear based on how many Explorers it destroys in a single Power use, not cumulatively across multiple uses.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Repeat, Infestation of Venomous Spiders, Focus the Land's Anguish, 8 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• If Many Minds Moves as One gathers multiple Sacred Sites into one land with an action, do they still count as separate Beasts for the rest of that action?
  Yes, while Many Minds can only use A Joining of Swarms and Flocks on one pair of Presence in each of its Sacred Sites (Jagged Earth, page 29), those Presence-pairs-as-Beasts remain Beasts for the rest of the action even if they move to new lands. In particular, Many Minds can use The Teeming Host Arrives to gather Presence pairs from three different lands with the middle threshold and then Push each of those Presence pairs with the final threshold.

  This doesn't let Many Minds gather multiple pairs of Presence from the same land with a single Gather instruction, so The Teeming Host Arrives can't gather more than two Presence from one land.
  Tags: Counts As, A Joining of Swarms and Flocks (Many Minds Move as One), The Teeming Host Arrives (Many Minds Move as One), Tigers Hunting, 6 more...