A few general questions

By Jackwraith, in CoC Rules Discussion

Can abilities of your cards that simply state 'a character' target either player's characters? Some cards are obvious because they say Sacrifice (something only you can do) or they stipulate 'character controlled by an opponent'. But other cards, like the Forced Response of T-Men, aren't so specific. T-Men wounds a character when it enters play. Considering the card's cost, I would think that it would be wounding an opponent's character, but it's still a pretty powerful card, so presumably it could wound something of yours. I don't think so, but that's why I'm asking.

Can Actions that require payment of resources be used multiple times? Like Shotgun: Pay 1 to choose and wound a character committed to this story. It doesn't exhaust either the character Shotgun is attached to or Shotgun itself, so I'm presuming you can use it as long as you're willing to pay the cost for it, right? And can multiple actions of that sort be taken in the same phase? Can I pay Shotgun three times in the Terror phase to eliminate characters I don't want to face in the Combat phase? Or can I only activate Shotgun once per phase?

Also, slightly off-topic, will cards from the basic set appear (or have they already appeared) in Asylum Packs? I'm presuming so, since there are really useful cards in the basic set that I'd like to have more copies of without shelling out another $35.

Thanks for any feedback.

Jackwraith said:

Can abilities of your cards that simply state 'a character' target either player's characters? Some cards are obvious because they say Sacrifice (something only you can do) or they stipulate 'character controlled by an opponent'. But other cards, like the Forced Response of T-Men, aren't so specific. T-Men wounds a character when it enters play. Considering the card's cost, I would think that it would be wounding an opponent's character, but it's still a pretty powerful card, so presumably it could wound something of yours. I don't think so, but that's why I'm asking.

If not stated (one of your character, one of an opponent character) then you can target the character you want.

Jackwraith said:

Can Actions that require payment of resources be used multiple times? Like Shotgun: Pay 1 to choose and wound a character committed to this story. It doesn't exhaust either the character Shotgun is attached to or Shotgun itself, so I'm presuming you can use it as long as you're willing to pay the cost for it, right?

If you have enough domain to drain you can use it several times during action phase.

But only one at a time.

During thiese phases, the active player can take an action, then the other player can take one, then the active can take another one, and so on.

Jackwraith said:

And can multiple actions of that sort be taken in the same phase? Can I pay Shotgun three times in the Terror phase to eliminate characters I don't want to face in the Combat phase? Or can I only activate Shotgun once per phase?

See my answer above.

But you can only take actions in the phase described at the end of the rule book (a figure shows when you can).

You can not tak actions during the struggles (terror, combat, ...) for example (except the forced responses).

Jackwraith said:

Also, slightly off-topic, will cards from the basic set appear (or have they already appeared) in Asylum Packs? I'm presuming so, since there are really useful cards in the basic set that I'd like to have more copies of without shelling out another $35.

Thanks for any feedback.

I do not know but suppose they don't.

I suppose if you want multiple core set cards you have to buy several core sets.

You can have a look at the Asylum pack content list to check.

Hope these answers help.

So far NO core set cards have been reprinted in APs.

So if you want extra copies - either buy extra core sets, or look for some trades (either white -boarded versions or black-bordered versions, from CCG times).

Thanks for the answers.