Minor spoilers maybe?

In a situation where you are swapping a card in play for an enemy card or flipping a card in play to reveal that it is an enemy, which occurs in the Scenarios 'The Last King' in Path to Carcosa and in the the side adventure 'Carnevale of Horrors' respectively, does that swap or flip count as the enemy spawning?

This question specifically came up in regards to the rogue event card 'Think on Your Feet' which is fast card that can only be played 'when an enemy would spawn at your location.' So could you play it in response to an in play card being swapped with an enemy or an in play card being flipped over to reveal an enemy? In the case of the latter, would that allow you to escape the damage the enemy would have otherwise inflicted on that investigator for being at that location when it was flipped?

Interesting question. My first instinct is to say yes, but to be certain, I'd suggest you ask directly.

Well, when you flip an agenda or act card and find an encounter card, you do as if you just drew it (which means such enemies spawn - like the enemy on the back of agenda 1 in Carnevale). Otherwise, you need to ask FFG.

I don't see the problem with this. You are spawning a monster, and thematically it would make perfect sense to GTFO if you start to see the transformation just as it would if you start to sense or hear something coming from beneath the floorboards or whatever.

I'm assuming that the damage you are referring to is the effect of the cards in Carnivale as I'm pretty sure that these ones just engage you and then attack on the enemy phase.

5 hours ago, Soakman said:

I'm assuming that the damage you are referring to is the effect of the cards in Carnivale as I'm pretty sure that these ones just engage you and then attack on the enemy phase.

I am in fact referring to the masked carnevale-goers who instruct you to 'attacks each investigator in its location' when you flip them if it's an enemy on the other side of the card. The instruction is part of an action on the card so I assume it resolves as part of the action during the player investigation turns

Heres the offical response.

Greetings,

"Spawning” occurs when an enemy is drawn from the encounter deck, or when an effect uses the word “spawn” to put an enemy into play. (for example: "Search the encounter deck for an enemy and spawn it…”) Otherwise, if an enemy enters play through some other method, such as the bystanders swapping with set-aside enemies or being flipped to an enemy side, this is not considered “spawning.”

Hope that helps. Cheers,

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Matthew Newman

Associate LCG Designer

Fantasy Flight Games

Wow. Unexpected, but good to know. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing the answer.