When initiating challenges. How many characters can partake in them. For instance: Can more than one character attack for a Military challenge? In response, can the Defending player stack up multiple characters on one attacking character. These rules weren't explained thoroughly and left me with a lot of questions.

U can chose how many character can participate in challenge there is no restriction, but after challenge you must kneel participate characters.

Actually, you have to kneel them right when you declare them as attackers or defenders.

So each Military, Intrigue, and Political challenge can have multiple characters participating in each? It isn't restricted to one character per type of challenge?

Allomancer said:

And yes, the characters you declare are knelt as part of declaring them . You do not wait for the challenge to resolve before kneeling them.

If a character is standing, that character canan participate any challenge it has the icons for or as in the case of certain characters, any challenge it's text allows it too.

So technically if there is just one character attacking, the defender player can stack (excuse my mtg terminology) as many characters that are eligible on the one attacking character.

It isn't like Magic where defenders are assigned to attackers. Rather, the total strength of attacking characters are added together, as are defenders.

So yes, if decide to throw 1 character at your opponent in a challenge, they can defend with any number of characters. All that matters is the combined STR of the attackers and defenders.

You are, however, limited to one challenge of each type per round normally.

KristoffStark said:

So "stacking" any number of defending characters on a single attacking character probably isn't even the right way to think about it in M:tG terms. You "attack" with any number of characters and you"defend" with any number of characters. If you are "stacking" anything, it is on the challenge.

Now for the Plot phase, can you keep choosing the same plot over and over again. Or do you keep having to choose Plot cards until your deck is exhausted to start using cards over again?

You must cycle use each of your plots in your plot deck before reusing any of them.From Core rules, page 11, under Plot Phase, Step 1: Choose and Reveal Plot Cards: [my comments in brackets]

Plot cards are kept in three states: in the plot deck, revealed, and used. [For the first round of the game, all of your plots are in your plot deck, face down]

When you reveal a plot card during the plot phase, it moves from your plot deck to a revealed state. When you reveal a new plot card, place it on top of your previously revealed plot card. [You know have two piles, your face down plot pile, and your face up revealed pile

(All plot cards under your currently revealed plot card are considered your “used” plots.). [Although part of the same pile as the revealed plot, they are two distinct plot card states]

If this was the last card in your plot deck, return all your previously played plots (except the one just revealed) to your plot deck after your revealed plot has taken effect. [This prevents you from playing the same plot in back to back rounds once youv'e played all seven plots]

Since my previous explanation looks way more confusing than I thought it would (with typos to boot), let me try again.

You cannot select the same plot card over and over. Each round, the plot you choose to reveal replaces the previously revealed plot, which in turn is then considered to be in a used state/pile. Normally, used plots cannot be reused until your last plot card has been revealed and all plot effects resolve. When this happens (normally in round 7's Plot phase), all the plots in the used state (should be 6) are returned to your plot deck for use in subsequent rounds.

The information below shows the number of cards in each of the three states, after the selected plot card is revealed in each round. I’ve split round 7 into a two parts, one immediately after the plots are revealed but before they are resolved, and the other after resolution. This is important since some plots, event cards, and abilities resolve based on the number or type of plots in your used pile when the plots are revealed.

Round # in Plot # in revealed # in used
Beginning 7 0 0
1 6 1 0
2 5 1 1
3 4 1 2
.
.
6 1 1 5
7 (revealed) 0 1 6
7 (resolved) 6 1 0
8 5 1 1

Note that the number of cards in each phase for round 1 and 7 (resolved) are the same. This means that your 7th plot is the beginning of the next used pile, and will not return to your plot deck until you cycle through your plot deck again. Most games don’t last nearly that long – so you’ll only get to play your 7th plot once.

So basically just use up all of the Plot cards before you can start reusing them. But you can still look through the ones you have available to choose which to use that round right?

Also, you get a power token every time a challenge goes unopposed right? And an opponent can choose not to block even if they have eligible characters for the challenge right?

Again sorry if I'm asking a ton of questions. I basically play a game, make a note of anything I got caught up on and relay the questions to this thread lol.

Allomancer said:

Yes, you may look at your unused Plot Cards at any time. It is worth noting, however, that you cannot look at you opponent's unused Plot deck.

Yes, you Claim a Power for Your House each time you win a challenge unopposed. And yes, your opponent can choose not to defend even if they have eligible defenders (in fact, sometimes it's a very good idea).