Hi people,

Firstly, I just wanted to say hello to everyone on the forums!

Now, I just played my first game of GOT yesterday with my friend using the core set and I just wanted to ask several questions to clarify some general rules and card specific rules. My apologies if some of the answers to these questions are blindingly obvious! I was playing Lannister against my friend's Baratheon. Right, here we go....

1. During a plot phase, my friend played "Good for the Gander" against my "Planning Ahead". Does his ruling of "copy the "when revealed" ability of an opponent's revealed plot card" have any effect on my ruling of "Skip the taxation phase this round"? My card doesn't say "when revealed", so is the textual effect of his plot card wasted?

2. When you participate in a challenge with a character who has an attachment, do you kneel both the character and the attachment? Or is it just the character? This question came up regarding my friend's Ser Axell Florent with Lightbringer attached to him.

3. We didn't understand the reasoning behind the rule on cards like King Robert's Chambers and Queen Cersei's Chambers. Why would you attach it to your House card? Is it simply to make it immune to cards that affect locations?

4. Can Lannisport Brothel be used again as soon as you stand in the standing phase?

5. What is the reasoning behind The Hound's ability? Are there cards that allow you to return discarded characters back to your hand? I can't see any in the Lannister deck?

6. Lastly, can you kneel locations such as Western Fiefdoms as soon as you play them to decrease the cost of your next card? We assumed you could - I don't see why not.

Thank you. Again, apologies if these are pretty obvious to the advanced players out there!

Rydo72 said:

Will go ahead and answer your questions in order. Welcome to the game.

1. Yep, in that case, Good for the Gander had nothing to copy, so the effect is "wasted".

2. The attachment kneels separately from the character, location, or other.

3. Yep, making it an attachment makes it immune to location destruction. However, it also makes it vulnerable to attachment destruction. Deciding how to play it will depend on matchup (never play it as an attachment against Targaryen, as an example).

4. After a knelt character stands, LB is knelt to kneel that character. So it happens right after a knelt character stands.

5. It's meant to be a drawback for him because of his cost/str efficiency. And it is a nasty drawback.

6. Yep. You can use Western Fiefdoms on the same turn you marshal it.

Most welcome.

ASoIaF, you truly are a legend. Thank you for your help!

To be clear on #4: In the Standing phase, both the character AND the Brothel are likely to stand - at the same time even. You can indeed use the Response on the Brothel in that case. The only requirement is that the Brothel be standing when you trigger the Response. It doesn't matter how, when or how recently it stood.