Official Rulings

codewolf asks:

In a tournament Locutus was chosen to be stopped when facing Kolaran Raiders. The player then said that they were going to play Knowledge and Experience to prevent the stop. I told them if they prevented the stop that they would not get the 10 points for using Locutus skill and someone would be killed. Was I correct in saying that. My logic was is was as though they did not choose him tobe stopped.

You may respond after someone has been selected but before they have been stopped. If the dilemma is prevented during that time, Locutus would score the points but not be stopped.

See the "dilemmas" entry in the Current Rulings Document for examples outlining when you may respond while facing a dilemma.

 Categories: choose, dilemma, prevent, stopped

thsch asks:

Helen Noel

You may play this personnel at cost +3 to reveal the top four dilemmas of an opponent's dilemma pile and remove each dilemma that has a cost of 1 or more and does not require a skill from the game. The remaining dilemmas return to their owner's dilemma pile.

Where exactly are the remaining dilemmas placed? On the top or (face up) on the bottom of the dilemma pile?

Whenever dilemmas are returned to a dilemma pile, they are returned face-up to the bottom of the dilemma pile unless specified otherwise.

 Categories: dilemma, dilemma pile

ntimmons asks:

I would just like to clarify the timing on this dilemma. When the choice happens to replace this dilemma with the revealed dilemma, we are into part "h" and well passed the cost deduction part "e" of the process, and whatever dilemma is revealed is 'replaced' and continues along in part "h" where we process the text of the dilemma line by line.

I am assuming the bonus to this dilemma is that it could very well get you a dilemma that costs more then zero for the low-low price of "Consume 2." It could also potentially let you face a planet dilemma in space or vice versa as the planet/space check happens in part "e" as well, or it could flat out fizzle and for the low-low price of "Consume 2" you get nothing (Skeleton Crew? awesome.. I wanted one of those to be put out of play... that is exactly what I wanted...)

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The dilemma revealed by Repressed Message is processed beginning at step "f. 'When . . . about to face . . . dilemma' triggers process."

This means that you may face a space-only dilemma at a planet mission or vice-versa, the cost of the revealed dilemma is not counted against the total cost you may spend on dilemmas, and you may even face a dilemma you have faced previously this mission attempt.

 Categories: dilemma, replace, Repressed Message, timing

DJstormtrooper42 asks:

Two questions:

1st
From the rulebook:
"During your turn, effects from your opponent’s cards may not include or consider your stopped personnel."

If this is the case, how does a card like A Bad End or Don't Let It End This Way legally function?

2nd
"You cannot use another card’s text to affect one of your stopped personnel or ships."

If this is the case, can a affected by Brief Reunion be killed while stopped?

For your first question, the golden rule of CCGs is that cards may break a rule if they explicitly do so. A Bad End and Don't Let It End This Way explicitly break the rule about whom dilemmas can affect.

For your second question, yes, a personnel placed in play by Brief Reunion will still be killed at the end of the turn even if that personnel is stopped. The reason is the same as why Michael Eddington will still be killed if his ability is used and he is stopped: you activated the game text before the personnel in question was stopped. An effect that is already pending on a personnel or ship is not cancelled just because that personnel has been stopped.

 Categories: A Bad End, Brief Reunion, dilemma, Don't Let It End This Way, effect, event, kill, Michael Eddington, personnel, stopped

Totharious asks:

I have set up in play and my opponent just turned over my Aftereffects. If I destroy setup, do I get to choose all 3 personnel or do I only choose 1?
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Dilemma

2 Aftereffects
Randomly select three personnel. If the total cost of those personnel is 5 or less, they are killed. Otherwise, randomly select one of those personnel to be stopped.
"It fired a weapon that cut a swath four thousand kilometers long from Florida to Venezuela."
13 C 1
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Event

1 Set Up
Infiltration. Plays in your core. When an opponent's personnel is about to be randomly selected, if your Infiltrator is at that mission, you may destroy this event to instead choose the opponent's personnel to be selected from all eligible possibilities.

“This is ridiculous. I’m not the changeling. If I were, don’t you think I’d put up a little more of a fight?”
3 R 54

Set Up responds to "an opponent's personnel . . .", this means it allows you to choose one.

 Categories: Aftereffects, dilemma, event, kill, multiple kills, selection, Set Up