Rules for 3 October 2004

Your Rules for Sunday, October 3, 2004

Permanently gained restricted abilities

Say a Personality (DON'T think of Doji Konishiko, or Marty won't answer the question!) permanently gains, say, an ability from an Action card that, under normal circumstances, can only be used once (or once for each time something happens; think of Shame).

I've been contemplating a personal moratorium on answering anything with the faintest stench of Blessings of Isawa on it. That'll show you. ;)

Can the ability then be used once per turn, or more often than that? Or does the restriction carry over to the gained ability?

You get the whole pile of text of the ability. If you copy Shame, and use it, then no more copies of [this card name] can target the victim of the Shame-clone-ability until the Personality is re-honored and dishonored again.

You could, however, hit them with a "regular" shame in addition to the clone-shame-ability.

Brutal Confrontation + Same Old Tricks question

I have a really simple question about the interaction between The Same Old Tricks and Brutal Confrontation : can the former cancel the latter if its action is used more than once ? I would assume it can't, but I just want to be sure.

If you manage to dig Brutal Confrontation out of your Discard Pile and play it again in the same turn, sure, you can cancel its Battle Action.

However, the Same Old Tricks won't avail you at all against the Battle Actions that Brutal Confrontation gives to Players. Those are not abilities considered to be played off of the Brutal Confrontation card.

They sort of just hang out in the etherium as a game rule modification with a certain duration, sort of like picking up a Star Man in Super Mario Brothers. :)

That should cover everything from Sunday, October 3, 2004. If I missed your question unrelated to Dawn of the Empire, please repost it with the flag [RULES] as part of your distinct and clear subject line. I'll get back to you at the first opportunity.