Beta 3: forest location bug

[Hannibal_PJV]

Story mode normal, no perma dead, 4 character party.

Kyra was is forest. Met monster without weapon. Did roll poorly and lose her hand. So far so good. The monster was not banished as it should have been, but it was sufled back to the location deck.

Sorry no picture because the monster was gone when this happened.

[Borissimo]

Do you remember what the monster was?

[Hannibal_PJV]

No... Most propably a zombie or cultist, but I am not sure.

It should have been easy victory so I was not payin too much attention to it. But rolling 1, 1 and 2 is always bad ;-)

[Hannibal_PJV]

It could have been Ghost. Conflict between not having magical and forest location power.

Its is hard to reproduce. Shadow could do the same though, so have to try to fail, when next time in the forest and against some undead monster that needs magic to kill.

Edited April 3, 2016 by Hannibal_PJV

[Hannibal_PJV]

It happened now again with a ratswarm...

[Borissimo]

Ahhh, well Rat Swarm is an interesting thing. The text of the card reads,

 

"If you do not defeat the Rat Swarm by at least 4, shuffle it into the deck it came from."

 

So this is working correctly. On a roll of 8-11, the Rat Swarm is shuffled back into the deck before it can be banished.

[Hannibal_PJV]

And location deck says that you banish a minion even it is not defeated. I think that location power should overcome minion powers, but have to check that From the rulebook... There that ruling what is more powerfull, when there Are conflicts between card powers.

[Borissimo]

I'm pretty okay with how the Rat Swarm works -- the card effect happens first, so that when the location effect tries to trigger, the card isn't there anymore. To me, this doesn't seem like an issue of priority because the timing of the effects is very clear.

[Borissimo]

Okay, I just checked out the text of the Rat Swarm and confirmed that the way it works with the Woods is 100% correct. The last line of text of the card says something to the effect of "this monster is still considered defeated." Thus, if you roll 8-11, it should definitely NOT be banished by the forest's location effect. It's possible that the first time you encountered this issue it was the Rat Swarm as well, in which case there is no bug.