Cleric rules question...

By Cheriba2, in Talisman Rules Questions

Hi -

I have a question regarding rules as they may be applied to the Cleric from the Sacred Pool expansion. We started a new game this evening and I pulled the Cleric. The special ability is "Whenever you are about to pray you may replenish one fate." This has some ambiguity that we would like to have some clarification on. Can the character pray anytime and regain a fate (on or off his/her turn) - for example, if the Cleric is in battle and doesn't get the die roll to beat a character/enemy, can the Cleric cast a fate and re-roll, but **still** doesn't get the die roll to win, so pray and get a fate and re-roll ad-infinitum to get the intended die roll? Can the praying occur anywhere at any time? The other cards when you have something that you can regain (for example, the troll, can regain a life if rolls a six), there are specific conditions, but none are listed with the Cleric. It seems the Cleric could always have whatever die roll a player wants, which does not seem fair in the game.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

cheriba said:

Hi -

I have a question regarding rules as they may be applied to the Cleric from the Sacred Pool expansion. We started a new game this evening and I pulled the Cleric. The special ability is "Whenever you are about to pray you may replenish one fate." This has some ambiguity that we would like to have some clarification on. Can the character pray anytime and regain a fate (on or off his/her turn) - for example, if the Cleric is in battle and doesn't get the die roll to beat a character/enemy, can the Cleric cast a fate and re-roll, but **still** doesn't get the die roll to win, so pray and get a fate and re-roll ad-infinitum to get the intended die roll? Can the praying occur anywhere at any time? The other cards when you have something that you can regain (for example, the troll, can regain a life if rolls a six), there are specific conditions, but none are listed with the Cleric. It seems the Cleric could always have whatever die roll a player wants, which does not seem fair in the game.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

A character may pray whenever a space or card says allows you to, temple, chapel, graveyard, altar adventure card etc . Whenever you do that with the cleric, you then replenish 1 fate.

You are not allowed to re-roll the same die more than once when using fate

Regards

Pray is a keyword that will appear on appropriate cards and spaces as The Wizard has highlighted.

Great - thanks for the clarification!