From:  Chad Martin <chad@t...> 
Date:  Mon Jun 17, 2002  5:49 am
Subject:  [NetRep] Rulings Digest #31

A few preliminary things:

1) Yes, I'm still alive. I was just in the middle of nowhere for a
week, and I was quite the busy man for a few days around that. I
should be caught up with all the list questions as of this digest.

2) In case anybody's keeping track, I doubled up on one of the numbers
of the rulings digests somewhere in the upper twenties, so I'm
skipping 30 and going straight to 31. If anybody's keeping
track/posting the digests, you can change the digest numbers
accordingly up to this point.

And now on with the show...

Do I understand correctly that only a non-ringwraith may re-unite
Sauron with his Ring? A Ringwaith cannot move to Barad-Dur without
special cards.!!!

*** That is correct. A Ringwraith may only move to Barad-dur that
Ringwraith is in a mode. There is nothing that prevents a Ringwraith
bearing the One Ring from entering a mode and taking the One Ring to
Barad-dur, however.
--------
forwarned is forarmed:
if this card is in play, and a company wants to enter an underdeeps
site, is it necessary to play a creature as an auto attack, so that
fof´s first effect is acitvated?? without playing this creature as an
auto attack there wouldn´t be a second auto attack, and so fof is not
activated, isn´t it?!

fof says, that scuh an reduced attack cannot be canceled, but that
doesn´t say, that a strike cannot be canceled. so if there is an
attack with one strik, can i use for example fatty bolgers ability??

*** Forewarned is Forearmed will be activated at any Under-deeps
site, since the hazard player need not play the creature for the
second automatic attack until the first automatic attack is dealt
with. Fatty Bolger can cancel the strike of a one strike attack, even
if the attack cannot be cancelled.
--------
flatter a foe:
since using this card is an influence check, must the character tap??

*** No.
--------
i want to add another question to flatter a foe.
though you are not tapping, it is still an influence attempt. if lure
of power is in play, will this card be triggered, when you are
successfully flattering a foe?

*** Yes.
--------
I've got a question about a card The Windlord Found Me
It's written :
"Cannot be duplicated by a given player."

Does it mean I can put only one copy of this card to the play-deck ?
Do I understand it corretly ?

*** Unique means you can only have one copy in your play
deck/sideboard. Cannot be duplicated means only one copy can be in
play at any time, but more copies can be out of play, in your deck, in
your discard pile, etc.
--------
I encountered an eratum on RingLore saying that
Ringlore taps the sage and the site. Is it possible to
play ringlore at a tapped site? And on a tapped sage?

*** Unless otherwise stated on the card, if a card requires you to
tap a character, site, or whatever, that entity must be untapped when
you play the card.
--------
Hhm, that means having to include the wimpy shadow-magic user
Ciryaher. But anyway, how long does deeper shadow stay in effect? I
know it's been errataed to be a short event, so I presume it's until
end of turn.

*** If a short event's text doesn't indicate a duration for its
effect, the effect lasts until the end of the turn, so you presume
correctly.
--------
1) Can Uvatha's special ability be used to recycle a
discarded agent?

*** No. Agents aren't creatures.
--------
2) Along those lines, can you respond to/cancel a
nazgul's special ability with Marvels Told?

*** You can discard a tapped Witch-King, since he becomes a long
event, otherwise no, due to timing rules.
--------
3) I've seen Flatter a Foe interpreted 2 different
ways in regards to Assassins, and would like an
official ruling:

a) The 1st attack is canceled and if the reduced
hazard limit goes below the number of hazards played
the remaining attacks of the assassin "fizzle" out.

b) I was also told that once the assassin resolves
enough for the 1st attack to be canceled that the
remaining attacks cannot fizzle and must be faced.

*** Interpretation B is correct. If the first attack has already
occured, the Assassin is in play, and no longer needs a hazard limit
to stay in play.
--------
4) With hazard limit reducing resources in general, is
it in fact possible to respond with hazards as long as
they are not corruption or creatures (which must
initiate a chain of events)? I can understand
responding with Many Sorrows Befall to cancel the
Flatter/Riddling Talk, etc., but responding with
Rivers, etc. seems to make the reduction in hazard
limit moot.

*** You can respond to the resource with any hazards that aren't
required to start a chain of effects, like River.
--------
5) The MEWH rulebook states under Targeting Site and
Resource Cards: "A hero resource card may not
targe/affect a minion site card or a minion resource
card." And likewise for minion resource cards. The
only exception given to this is the testing of ring
items. So I assume that a Smoke Rings/Long Bottom
Leaf cannot be used to grab a minion resource? What
about minion characters for Smoke Rings?

*** You cannot use Smoke Rings or Longbottom Leaf to recycle minion
resources as a Fallen Wizard. Jim Montanus wrote the following about
the character situation, which I declare official:

I think this issue is not an oversight - the rules for FW don't make a
distinction between hero and minion characters, they make a
distinction between non-orc/non-troll and orc/troll characters.
Non-orc/non-troll character can be targetted with both hero and minion
resources, and orc/troll characters can be targetted only by minion
resources.
--------
OK, this might be an easy question for the rules gurus. The text for
"Enchanted Stream" says it's playable on a moving company with at
least one wilderness in its site path. Does this mean the site path
as indicated on the site card or the site path taken by the moving
company, as if done by region movement?

*** Enchanted Stream refers to the company's site path, which is
generally the same as the site's site path when using starter
movement, and is determined by the regions the company passes through
when using region movement.
--------
Can Aragorn only cards like Paths of the Dead or The
Return of the King, also be played on Strider??

*** No. Aragorn and Strider are two different cards.
--------
CRF quote:
"Effects that modify a character's body also modify the number an Orc
or Troll would be discarded on. A maximum to body applies equally to
the discard number."
I still don't quite get this, for example let's say I play Mithril
coat (+3 to body to max. 10) on a Morgul Lt. (9 body, discarded on a
9). So his body goes up to 10, but is he discarded on a 9, 10 or 11?

*** No. Mithril Coat's body modification also modifies the discard
number. Which means he would be discarded on a 9+3 = 12. Since the
maximum printed on Mithril Coat also applies, the 12 is bumped down to
10. So he would have a body of 10, and would be discarded on a body
check roll of 10.
--------
By the way, speaking of Mithril coat, the minion Bag End says that
only hero items are playable there. Does this mean you have to play
the actual card from METW (in case of the Mithril coat) or does it
mean you can play any minion item which has a hero counterpart (e.g.
Mithril coat, Arkenstone, Iron Crown etc.)?

*** The restriction you refer to is for greater items only. Hero
resources have the copper background. Even if a minion item has a
hero version, it's still a minion item. You would have to play the
version from METW, in the case of the Mithril Coat.

Chad Martin
chad@t...
Official Council of Elrond NetRep
http://www.feinus.com/ccg/elrond.htm
Assisted by: Nigel Buckle, Wim Heemskerk and Brian Wong