Couple Quick Questions That Came Up

By countinggardens, in Arkham Horror Second Edition

Sorry if these are answered elsewhere but me and my group are fairly new to this game (Played about four times) and a couple questions tripped us up.

When you die, you lose half your items etc. Do items include spells or allies? As well as curses and blesses?

Do weapons exhaust when you use them?

CountingGardens said:

Sorry if these are answered elsewhere but me and my group are fairly new to this game (Played about four times) and a couple questions tripped us up.

When you die, you lose half your items etc. Do items include spells or allies? As well as curses and blesses?

Do weapons exhaust when you use them?

If you die, or in official terminology "knocked unconscious" or "driven insane" (reduced to 0 sanity or stamina), you lose half your items AND clue tokens as well as your retainer. Spells are considered items! Allies, curses, and blessings (as well as skills) are not discarded in this process. But if you are devoured, it's a different story. If you are devoured, you lose everything except for monster and gate trophies, that investigator is removed from the game, THEN draw a new investigator along with his or her starting random and fixed possessions.

To answer your second question: unless explicitly stated on the weapon, you do not exhaust a weapon after use.