Attachments and Text Boxes

By AUCodeMonkey, in CoC Rules Discussion

Are abilities from an attachment added to a character's text box? Or do they stand separate?

The reason I'm asking: my wife had a Khopesh on a Mature Deep One. She used the Khopesh's ability to wound and destroy one of my characters. I then placed Bound and Gagged on the Mature Deep One, which makes it unable to commit to stories and blanks its text box. I argued that because of this her Mature Deep One should be dead because the Khopesh adds Toughness +1 and its ability to the MDO's text box, and therefore it's all blanked and it loses its Toughness and dies due to its 1 wound. She, understandably, argued that the Khopesh's text was separate from that of the attached character's text box.

... She ended up winning. Her Deep One deck is brutal now, with Into Tartarus...

Attachments have their own text box, and do not add to the text box of the card they're attached to.

Thank you for the clarification. Curse you for making me tell my wife that she was right enfadado.gif