Loved the first play through of this game, but we had a few questions.

1. How come some cards have the keywords (ex. strike) say to discard the card while the more advanced ones don't? I was hoping that for the keywords that don't have a discard card, they were always turned on.

2. Can weapons be used more than once? For example if it says 1 success is 2 hits, and 2 successes is 5 hits, If you get 3 successes can you give 7 hits?

The reason I ask these questions is that sometimes it feels a bit tough to kill some of the orcs and goblins. The movies and books had them slicing through them with ease, but the game makes them all seem more formidable.

1. The game assumes that by that point you know the meaning of the keywords, so the explanation is omitted. You still have to discard the card to use the one keyword that you want use. Go to page 32 of Rules Reference for how to use the keywords.

Keywords are shorthand for specific abilities that appear frequently on cards. So you are better of always using page 32 of Rules Reference.

2. Yes you can use each line up to once. You cannot use one line more than once. For e.g., you cannot get 5+5 hits if you get 4 successes.

This is implied with some weapon cards having the same line for a success. Why would they copy the same line if you could use one line more than once? E.g., card below.

On 5/13/2019 at 10:53 AM, MeeKey said:

You cannot use one  line more than once.

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This is implied with some weapon cards having the same line for a success. Why  would they copy the same line if you could us  e on  e line more than once? E.g., card below.

I made the same interpretation for the same reason, but is it spelled out in the rules anywhere? I checked a few logical places and couldn't find it specifically stated.

Page 11 of Learn to Play, Attack Tests:

Each ability indicates how many successes must be spent to resolve it, and each ability can be resolved only once per attack.

This is not specified in the Rules Reference 12.1 Hero Attacks however, which is weird.

Oh... one of those cases. There were one or two examples of that in The IA rulebooks as well.

Thank you!