Reply: Mage Knight Board Game:: Rules:: Re: Official Rules FAQ Thread

by flogae

Smash62bill wrote:

flogae wrote:

So I really think that should be narrowd down a bit further. Maybe the Designer or someone close to him can help...

Unfortunately that boat has long since sailed: the designer, by some accounts, hasn't answered questions about MKBG in some years. (And I don't blame him: as I understand it he wasn't involved in the development of the last two expansions, so he would likely not wish to give answers that could lead to additional unanticipated problems.)

Which, IMO, still leaves us in an okay position: as I've stated elsewhere, we players of MKBG have plenty of hours of experience with this game to answer these types of questions, if we can come to a consensus.

And, the fact that this question really hasn't arisen in discussion often, suggests it's a rarely arising situation. There seems to be agreement that Who Needs Magic is referring to all of the dice in the Source. The only question now is whether you can do things with/to those dice that doesn't constitute "use". And this probably doesn't have a definitive answer: so choose the answer that seems the best fit from your opinion and go with that. (I've already stated above what I think it should be, and why.) Whichever interpretation you decide to hold to, it's not going to ruin the game or vastly upset the balance.

Now there's an interesting question as to why WizKids and company, in the recent while, haven't been providing a lot of answers either, especially with regard to the five new cards that came out with the Ultimate Edition. My suspicion is that, they too, see the expert answers that many players on these forums give, and figure that we--as a group--are proficient enough to figure out the best answers to these kinds of questions, questions some of which likely didn't even occur to the design team during their design process. And I think that we, as a group, are getting to be pretty good at handling them. Sure, they are not "official" answers we come to, but at least in this way we can see the thought that is behind them, and know that it is thorough.

And besides that, it does give us something to talk about. 😀

You are 100% right, of course.

As for my group, I know how we will answer the question for ourselves: disallow any usage of dice from the source but allow taking dice from the source to produce tokens, using those tokens and putting the unused dice back as in the powered effect of Mana Draw and other cards.