Focused Offense: Plot with claim 3 that say you can only declare one challenge and cannot defend.

Rookery (martell): When you win an intrigue (by 4 or more) challenge kneel, discard, pay one gold.

Situation: If I attack with an intrigue challenge and win by four or more. I use the response of the rookery to reveal a new plot and choose Focused Offense. Can I attack in another challenge since I didn't have that constant effect before when I attacked using intrigue?

1.-Attack- Intrigue: Win by 4 or more.

2.-Response: Rookery.

3.-Reveal Focused Offense. (Constant effect start working: declare only one challenge)

3.-Attack in melee or power (not both).

Hope someone can elaborate in this.

Cheers

Focused Offense must be your revealed plot in order to limit you to declaring only one challenge. If you use a Rookery (or some other effect) to change your plot after declaring that 1 challenge, the plot effect would be gone and you could declare more challenges.

As to whether declaring 1 challenge and then changing your plot to Focused Offense, I think that since the plot does not specify a particular timeframe (eg, "this round," "this phase," etc.) that its effect starts when it is revealed and ends when a new plot is revealed. That means you can declare only 1 challenge after it is revealed -- until it is replaced. If it counted challenges that were declared before it was revealed, wouldn't it count challenges that were initiated in previous rounds (it doesn't, after all, say "this round"...)?

I have actually thought about this without trying it.

I believe Focused Offense's text applies throughout the life of the plot only. Because it doesn't give you a time window where it limits that one challenge. If it said "this round" or "this phase", then I'd say you are SOL.

Besides, if you initiated more than 1 challenge already, it would already be an illegal move according to that plot, so I can't see how the "more than 1 challenge" would actually look at the history of the current phase. "You cannot declare defenders." would also be illegal if it looked back at the history of the challenges phase because you may have defended against an attack already.

I think what you did is a nice and tricky way to overcome the limitations of that plot.