Xenophobia

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Cards

• If the "Xenophobia" Event stops each individual Invader from dealing Damage to the land (but leaves them dealing Damage to Dahan), do Ravage Damage bonuses increase Damage dealt to the land?
  No. In order for per-land Damage bonuses to apply, at least one Invader must be dealing more than 0 damage. (See the Ravage Timing sidebar on page 7 of the Jagged Earth rulebook.) This is checked separately for "damage to the land" and "damage to Dahan".

  Damage to the land and to the Dahan are tallied separately. The vast majority of the time, these Damage amounts are the same until applying any Badlands in the land, so it's not worth the trouble of computing them independently until Badlands are checked in Step 4. The "Xenophobia" Event can make the Damage amounts diverge back in Step 1, which means that the Damage bonuses in Step 2 can potentially apply differently to those totals.

  This most commonly comes up against the Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Level 6, which can grant +2 Ravage Damage per land. If only Explorers are Ravaging, "Xenophobia" makes each of those Explorers deal 0 Damage to the land. Since none of the Ravaging Invaders can harm the land, there is no Damage to the land for the Adversary to increase. On the other hand, since the Explorers are still dealing Damage to the Dahan, the Adversary can increase that Damage total by 2. (This can also arise with more complicated Invader configurations if Strife or the "Mesmerized Tranquility" Minor Power are involved.)
  Tags: Ravage, Xenophobia, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony)

Invader Actions

• Under “Ravage Timing” on p. 7 of the Jagged Earth rulebook, it mentions “modifiers to individual Invader Damage” happen first, and “per-land modifiers” only happen afterwards. Why is this relevant? What are some examples of individual vs. land modifiers?
  It's relevant when every Invader in a land has been rendered harmless (via Strife, or reducing its individual Damage to 0) — drawing an Event Card like Destroy the Unnatural (which does +3 total Damage in certain lands) won't increase the Damage from 0 to 3.

  Individual modifiers are things like “Cities deal +3 Damage”, Mesmerized Tranquility (“Each Invader deals -1 damage”), or Strife tokens. Per-land modifiers are things like Destroy the Unnatural (above), or anything which says “Invaders deal +N Damage (per land) …”
  Tags: Strife, Damage, Ravage, Mesmerized Tranquility, 17 more...

Power Cards

• How does Voice of Command interact with Events that boost Invader damage or count Invaders?
  Events usually interact with "sides" (attacker vs counterattacker):

  • Boosts to total Invader Damage only benefit the Invaders' side - not the Explorers fighting alongside Dahan.
  • Boosts to "Invader Damage against Dahan" (Xenophobia) apply to damage done to the Dahan side - it doesn't matter if the damage is allocated to Dahan or Explorers.
  • Events counting the number of Invaders Ravaging (Fearful Mobs) count the pieces on the Invader's side - so not the Explorers. (A strict reading would count them, but this is wording for the normal case)

  (The last works differently from Badlands, which care about whether damage is actually done to Dahan pieces.)
  Tags: Ravage, Voice of Command, Fearful Mobs, Xenophobia, 3 more...