We are assuming you have to pay the characters cost in addition to the 1 fate the charge card costs? Are we right?

Again, please point me to the specific rules that clarify this.

thanks

Fu Leng in my festering pit

Nowhere does it say it must be paid for etc.

It simply enters play. It will have no fate on it it of course, since entering play and paying for a card with fate/adding fate are separate things.

Don't conflate rules and you'll get how it works. Just read exactly what it says and follow it. If there's more to it, it should be on the card. For example in this case it would have said something more like "choose a character in a province and pay its fate cost - put that character into play in the conflict"

Entering play doesn't mean you paid for it. But paying for a card is a way for it to enter play.

From the online Reference:

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Play and Put into Play
Playing a character or attachment card involves paying the card’s fate cost and placing the card in the play area. This causes the card to enter play. Cards are played from a player’s hand or provinces. Any time a character card is played, its controller has the option of placing additional fate from his or her fate pool on the card.

Some card abilities put cards into play. This bypasses the need to pay the card’s cost, as well as the opportunity to place additional fate on the card. A card that is put into play bypasses any restrictions or prohibitions regarding the potential of playing that card. A card that is put into play enters play in its controller’s play area. A card that has been put into play is not considered to have
been “played.”

• In order to play a card, its fate cost (after modifiers) must be paid.
• When a card is put into play, its fate cost is ignored.
• Unless otherwise instructed by the put into play effect, cards that enter play in this manner must do so in a play area or state that matches the rules of playing the card.
• When an event card is played, place it on the table, resolve its ability, and place the card in its owner’s discard pile.

If it makes you feel any better Fu, I thought the same thing in my first game

On 10/6/2017 at 8:58 AM, Tebbo said:

Nowhere does it say it must be paid for etc.

It simply enters play. It will have no fate on it it of course, since entering play and paying for a card with fate/adding fate are separate things.

Don't conflate rules and you'll get how it works. Just read exactly what it says and follow it. If there's more to it, it should be on the card. For example in this case it would have said something more like "choose a character in a province and pay its fate cost - put that character into play in the conflict"

Entering play doesn't mean you paid for it. But paying for a card is a way for it to enter play.

Not so quick and fast - if it says "put into play" then it puts it into play, but if it says "play the card" then you still must pay its cost. If there were a card that said "Action: Choose a character in your discard pile, play that character" you would actually pay the cost of that card. The book is actually very clear between putting something into play, and playing the card.

I understand that although I didn't word it that way and wasn't perfectly clear.

What I meant to say is follow exactly what it says and what the rules tell you it means. Do not add or subtract words/phrases in order to make the text fit what you think it should do. I was not referencing the rules, I was just applying a little logic. You're right that I used messy non-referenced terminology. If I confused the OP, my bad.

It's a legitimate question, because the Learn to Play does not mention 'put' once. 'Put into Play' is an LCG thing though it's not the clearest method, 'put into play' and 'play' sound so similar to the lamen person, that the Rules Reference needs multiple paragraphs just to explain how they are different. Simply making a keyword like 'summon' or 'call' would have made it so much simpler and clearer for new LCG players.

12 hours ago, LuceLineGames said:

Simply making a keyword like 'summon' or 'call' would have made it so much simpler and clearer for new LCG players.

They did in some other games. Conquest had "deploy", AGoT2 has "marshal" (both also have play, but it only applies to events). But even when there is a specific word, I hear people using "play" all the time.