To whom it may concern:
In a previous Puzzler, the civilian LSJ phrased
an implementation of the No Repeat Actions rule
in such a way as to count every minion who was
a part of the action (via Mask of a Thousand
Faces) as having attempted the action (and
therefore, every one of those minions was
prohibited from attempting another action of
the same type).
The RT says that the NRA should be implemented
in a slightly different, more intuitive fashion:
When the action ends (is resolved or is blocked),
the acting minion becomes unable to perform an
action of the same type for the remainder of the
turn.
Thus, only the last acting minion (in the case
of one or more vampires Masking the action) is
under the onus of NRA.
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L. Scott Johnson (vte...@regency.wizards.com)
Official VtES Net.Rep for Wizards of the Coast.
(*) - Subject to review by Rules Team
"L. Scott Johnson" <vte...@regency.wizards.com> wrote:
> To whom it may concern:
>
> In a previous Puzzler, the civilian LSJ phrased
> an implementation of the No Repeat Actions rule
> in such a way as to count every minion who was
> a part of the action (via Mask of a Thousand
> Faces) as having attempted the action (and
> therefore, every one of those minions was
> prohibited from attempting another action of
> the same type).
>
> The RT says that the NRA should be implemented
> in a slightly different, more intuitive fashion:
>
> When the action ends (is resolved or is blocked),
> the acting minion becomes unable to perform an
> action of the same type for the remainder of the
> turn.
>
> Thus, only the last acting minion (in the case
> of one or more vampires Masking the action) is
> under the onus of NRA.
The Rules Team has been making some funny rulings recently, but I have to
say that I agree with them on this one. After all, the _intent_ of NRA
is to prevent someone from taking multiple bleed actions per minion in a
single turn, not to prevent someone from taking 1 bleed action per minion!
It also avoids the bizarre situation where a minion can't Mask back into
the action that the minion initiated.
For once: good!
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Eric Pettersen
pe...@diderot.ucsf.edu (NeXTmail capable)