Blank Textboxes, passive abilities and ignoring character abilities

By Ser Folly, in 2. AGoT Rules Discussion

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HI,

these are unusually dumb questions, but I had to promise last night's losing baratheon player to check, i had not been cheating on him (without me knowing, that is).

1. If a character ignores attackers abilities does that include a keyword: He wanted to defend against Eddard Stark who is deadly and just use one character that ignored abilities. His arguing went along the line that so his character is not killed by deadly since it is the only defender and ignores abilities. _ I killed him then, claiming that keywords are not abilities....

2. This one is hypothetical but I'd like to know whether I'm right. A card that blanks a textbox would also erase keywords (but not traits) thus doing the trick for question 1. above.

3. If a location with an abilitie/text is kneeled, does that mean you do no longer profit from that: I had Winterfell Castle and he wanted to kneel it somehow, arguing that I would no longer have the +1 strength on all Stark characters. I told him that this is a passive ability and those still apply when kneeled.

Thanks in advance...

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Ser Folly said:

1. If a character ignores attackers abilities does that include a keyword: He wanted to defend against Eddard Stark who is deadly and just use one character that ignored abilities. His arguing went along the line that so his character is not killed by deadly since it is the only defender and ignores abilities. _ I killed him then, claiming that keywords are not abilities....

Ser Folly said:

2. This one is hypothetical but I'd like to know whether I'm right. A card that blanks a textbox would also erase keywords (but not traits) thus doing the trick for question 1. above.
are removed by blanking effects (like Nightmares) unless the blanking effect itself says otherwise (like Milk of the Poppy).

Ser Folly said:

3. If a location with an abilitie/text is kneeled, does that mean you do no longer profit from that: I had Winterfell Castle and he wanted to kneel it somehow, arguing that I would no longer have the +1 strength on all Stark characters. I told him that this is a passive ability and those still apply when kneeled.
to do (something)" need to be standing in order to work, but that's because kneeling the card is part of the cost.

So, just like is says in the FAQ that kneeling a location with a gold or initiative bonus does not turn off the bonus, kneeling a location with a general continuous effect will not turn off the effect - unless the card specifically says so.

The kind of questions you are asking here are pretty common for people who have experience in other CCGs. Sounds like your friend needs to "unlearn" some rules from other games.

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ktom said:

The kind of questions you are asking here are pretty common for people who have experience in other CCGs. Sounds like your friend needs to "unlearn" some rules from other games.

Thanks Ktom,

actually he doesn't enjoy losing and would never ask if it were the other way round, that means he always tries to sneak around this and that, which can at times be amusing, but more often than not is annoying.

He used to play Magic a few years ago. It's me who's new to these games, and its me who is quite fluent in English, who bought the game and who sorts out the rules of play angel.gif. Bad luck for him...