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When a haunt needs tokens equal to the number of heroes, does it count the heroes at the start of the haunt or the heroes still alive?

The designer pointed to the English wording and a likely mistranslation on BGG.

  • BruceGee · Designer · 2011-10-26
  • dcclark · Community · 2011-09-18
  • spencer_myers · Community · 2011-09-18

It counts the heroes present when the haunt was revealed, not the heroes still alive. The designer quotes the English text as "the number of heroes when the haunt was revealed" and says the 'surviving heroes' wording sounds like a mistranslation.

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