I've been playing GoT card game with friends for a few months now and we are gradually getting better and picking up all the rules. There are still a few pretty major ones that we don't know if we are playing correctly hope someone can help us out.

1. At the setup stage you have 5 gold to spend, if you don't spend it can this carry forward through the first plot phase to the first marshalling stage or do you return any gold you can't or don't want to spend to the gold pool after setup is complete?

2. If a character is tapped can you still utilise their text box effects (i.e. other sandsnakes get stealth and I icon or if they have initiative or gold bonuses on them)

3. In dominance is it the characters printed strength that is counted or the strength after any modifiers are applied (Asshai characters get +1)

4. At the start of the game if you win a power challenge and the person you won the power challenge against has no power on their house do you not claim anything or do you take it from the power pool?

Rather basic questions but hopefully someone can get us playing properly

xax23 said:

You don't have 5 gold to spend, actually. To quote the rulebook, "you may place up to 5 gold worth of characters and/or location cards". This is a one shot opportunity. There's never any gold in your gold pool, so there's not any to return or retain.

xax23 said:

Around these parts we use the term "kneeled", stranger.
Generally, abilities on cards are active and actionable irrespective of whether the card is standing or kneeling. It goes without saying that you can't use abilities that require you to kneel a card if that card is already kneeling in the first place, though.

xax23 said:

Current Strength. If any rule or effect refers to STR, it's always current STR. If printed STR is meant, the rule or effect will say so.

xax23 said:

If you win an INT challenge, and they don't have cards in hand, nothing gets discarded. If you win a MIL challenge and the have no characters in play, no one gets killed. Same thing here. If they have no power on their house, you can't move power from their house to your house. That makes POW challenges a tad weaker right at the start of the game. You can still claim power for renown and unopposed (if applicable), you can still trigger "After you win a POW challenge…" or "After you win a challenge as the attacker…" types of effects, though.

Ratatoskr said:

Around these parts we use the term "kneeled", stranger.

Actually, we use "kneeling" or "knelt". Gotta learn irregular verbs like you did in German

knelt schmelt

Besides, there are no irregular verbs. It's just that some verbs follow rules that are too complicated for average mortals to fathom.

And even more besides, is French really better? The subjonctif actually gave me brain damage. I can produce medical estimates to that effect. In fact, I sued the Académie française. Litigation is currently pending.

I assume you're speaking about the past subjunctive rather than the present subjunctive (the latter is rather simpler, while the former is hardly used at all anymore, like the passé simple). And you can sue them all you like, they will all die before the trial, even though they call themselves "immortals".