You are assuming that if you find a card you have to play it, because you saw that Forced: there. You are wrong according to James. You badly misinterpet the ability, have you understood that by now?

Your argument is naive because this is exactly the kind of game where honesty should be forced by the rules. It is highly competitive and will be played in tournaments against people you don't know. When playing with your buddies everything's OK, but try to bring your fair play gospel to a room of prize-hungry competitive strangers and you are in for a rough awakening...

Dystopian said:

Actually, I'm not assuming that at all. For some reason I've not made myself clear enough here, in that I'm talking completely outside of the game about this - I could NOT care less what the stupid ruling is...I'm fine with the card and any rulings on it - my issue is simply that trying to claim that you don't see a card you can play when your human eyes literally SEE a card that IS playable, is known worldwide and in Webster's dictionary as a "Lie." That is ALL I am claiming.

There's really no way to reasonably argue this point. Lying is lying, plain and simple. I don't care what the rules are or say at all - my point is that if you see a green block and call it brown, that's a lie.

So there's utterly zero chance that my argument about what constitutes a "lie" and what telling the "truth" are defined as is "naive." Since I'm not at all discussing those terms in relation to any card or ruling in this game.

I'm by far experienced enough (and since I'm older than many of you on these forums, I'd wager that it's quite a bit more experience than most here) to realize how people act in a competitive gaming environment, having participated in so many of these types of events over the past several decades. Yes, gamers are probably going to claw and whine for any advantage they can find to either enhance the skills they already possess (or in most cases) to make up for any lack of playing ability otherwise.

My point still stands that incorporating prevaricating into your skill-set in order to win any of the prizes that might be offered at any standard (or even worldwide) tournament from FFG, is pretty sad. It's especially sad considering that they're not tossing around thousands of dollars or college scholarships or anything like that...and even if they were, it doesn't change the fact that this is still "just a game."

I agree with you in that "honesty" will probably have to be enforceable by the rules or by a judge coming over to look at the cards themselves to weed out the unethical....