Cirdan and Local Troubles (TSF)

By Davachido, in Rules questions & answers

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Right so update from Caleb:

The card anatomy on page 8 of the core rules describes Game Text as: “The special abilities unique to this particular card.” There is no distinction made between ‘benefits’ and ‘drawbacks’ - all of a character’s game text constitutes its ability, both good and bad. Any bold trigger (such as Action , Response , Forced ) is a triggered action, so if Local Trouble is attached to Cirdan when his Forced effect triggers, you must raise your threat by 1.
Cheers,
Caleb
Which makes it quite hard on Cirdan but hopefully I have enough test of wills around for when I next play it!
This also infers that if you trigger off Glorfindel's effect it also raises threat by one.
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Still much worse on tactics Boromir... when you raise your threat by 1 to ready him, you must raise it 2 more - 1 for readying and 1 for triggering an ability!

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1 hour ago, Seastan said:

Still much worse on tactics Boromir... when you raise your threat by 1 to ready him, you must raise it 2 more - 1 for readying and 1 for triggering an ability!

But at least that's your choice to do so. You literally can't stop Cirdan's trigger.

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Cirdan and Glorfindel are the only heroes with a Forced, and Glorfindel's Forced is essentially optional, putting aside that he will likely never be selected by "Attach this card to the hero with the highest threat cost without a copy".

So yep, sucks to be Cirdan.

Meanwhile, I was disappointed that Caleb focused on the ability/drawback aspect in answering, rather than the question of who/what is triggering the triggered ability - which seemed to me to be the only real source of ambiguity. Still, at least he picked the right answer. :)