Frosthaven

Which rule stickers should envelopes 24, 37, 44, 85 and 90 list?

First printings print the wrong numbers inside those flaps. Envelope 24 uses sticker 10, 37 uses 11 and 13, 44 (the Enhancer) uses 12 and 14, 85 uses 15, and 90 uses 1, 5, 8 and 9. The stickers are on the shared sticker sheets, not inside the envelopes.

Which monster cards have misprints in the first printing?

Three: the Chaos Demon's Chilling Breath is missing its value and should be Retaliate 2, Range 2; Savvas Icestorm's Frozen Shell should consume Ice, not Earth; and the elite Wind Demon at level 0 should have Move 3.

Which event and town guard cards are misprinted?

Town guard cards 1451 and 1452 should give +2 material resources. On winter road event WR-47, the first A outcome should say 'summer road deck', and the B outcome should remove SR-49 from the summer road deck instead of WR-47 from the winter deck.

Are any item cards misprinted?

Yes: item 049 (Cruel Dagger) is missing its spent icon, and item 225 should be a one-hand item, not a body item. Second printings fixed them.

What corrections apply to the Frosthaven rulebook?

Active cards without a lost icon count as discarded for long rests (added to page 30), Recover is not a targeted ability (page 33), and the Wealth favor in Appendix F costs 2 points instead of 1.

A scenario needs more of an overlay tile than the box has. Is something missing?

No. A few scenarios ask for more than exist, such as Scenario 17's five pressure plates, the barrels in 45 and 120, snow rocks in 52, corridors in 83 and debris in 109. Overlays aren't component-limited, so use a proxy or a functionally identical tile.

What changed in the second printing apart from the errata?

Three non-errata changes: the Deathwalker's character mat changes noted in the FAQ are now printed on her mat, the Blinkblade's Make It Count bottom has Move 2 instead of Move 1 in its green box, and the Shackles' level 8 Wave of Anguish was renamed Wave of Suffering so it no longer shares a name with a Deathwalker card.

Am I missing two boss standees?

Probably not. If the ones you can't find are 'FF' and 'SD', it will become clear later when you need them.

What are the two coin loot cards (1418 and 1419) with numbers and checkboxes for?

They belong to an unlockable campaign mechanic, so leave them out of loot decks until the game tells you to use them. You can store them in Envelope 74 without looking at its other contents; second printings already put them there. When they are unlocked, the instructions add them in addition to a scenario's normal money cards.

Should we use the challenge cards and town guard perks from the start?

No. Both belong to campaign mechanics that are unlocked later, and the game makes it clear when to begin using them.

What are the bless and curse tokens in the token tray for?

Only for marking traps that bless or curse whoever springs them. Bless and curse themselves are always cards shuffled into an attack modifier deck, never tokens on a figure.

What are the small squares, circles and diamonds on the ability cards?

Enhancement marks. They show where enhancements can go later in the campaign, and their shape limits which kinds fit; they have nothing to do with which effects are optional. Ignore them until enhancing is unlocked.

What are the little symbols on some monster stat cards?

They belong to campaign mechanics that are still locked; you'll learn what they mean when that content opens. One of them marks monsters that can later be captured as pets.

Why are monster initiative tokens a different colour on each side?

So you can flip a set's token once it has acted. It helps when monsters revealed later in the round still need to act.

Are we allowed to look through the monster ability decks?

Yes. Monster ability cards aren't spoilers, so you may read them, though some groups prefer not to.

Can the Banner Spear's banners move, and who decides where?

Only when granted a move, and then you decide how they move. A banner's move value is '–', so a 'Move X' grant works but a 'Move +X' bonus does nothing, and like other summons a banner can't open doors.

Are the Banner Spear's banners allies: do they buff her, count for formations, and take conditions?

Yes. Banners are summons, so you are their ally and get their aura effects, and they count as allies in formation hexes and for cards that need an adjacent ally. Monsters can target them and give them conditions like any summon. A banner never affects itself, since a figure isn't its own ally.

Can Banner Spear formation patterns be rotated or mirrored?

Yes, like any area pattern: rotate or mirror the whole pattern (so on Combined Effort you can stand on either side of your ally), but you can't move individual hexes or resize it.

For a formation's blue hex, does the ally need to be in line of sight, and can it be invisible or beyond a wall?

An ally must actually occupy the blue hex or the attack can't be performed (use the card's basic action instead). You need line of sight to that ally, but it can be on the other side of a wall as long as you can see it. An invisible ally counts, since the ally isn't targeted.

Can single-target items like the Crude Spear or Battle Axe be used with formation attacks that have one red hex, like Combined Effort?

No. Any attack with a red-hex area pattern is never a single-target attack for item purposes, however many enemies it hits. For enhancement costs, though, such one-red-hex attacks count as single-target, so they aren't doubled.

How does the Banner Spear's formation attack mastery work?

In a single scenario, attack at least three enemies with each of three different formation attack actions. The enemies can be the same ones each time, but the three formation actions must be different, and each one has to hit three enemies by itself; spreading hits across several uses doesn't count. It's generally impossible before level 3 unless an item or enhancement helps. The other mastery, about summoning a banner, has no such barrier and can be done early.

Do the abilities after a formation attack (like Let Them Come's heal) need the formation attack to have been made?

Yes. Any ability in the action that refers to the formation needs the formation attack to have been performed; if no enemy was attacked in the formation, the heal or bless doesn't happen.

Does Boldening Blow attack every enemy in its red hexes?

No. Its Attack and Disarm hit a single enemy of your choice in the depicted area; the pattern is there to show where your allies must stand, and those allies are blessed.

Does Set for the Charge's top work with forced movement as well as normal movement?

Yes, it works with both.

For the Banner Spear's At All Costs, is the self-damage one source or one per healed ally?

Each 1 damage for an ally whose hit points increased is its own source of damage, so it can be negated or reduced separately. It isn't attack damage, so shields don't reduce it, and you may leave allies out of the 'target all' heal.

How does Banner of Strength's +1 attack work?

It's an aura checked when the attack happens: the attacker must be within range 2 of the banner at that moment (for a Deathwalker shadow attack, the shadow must be). It boosts one attack per figure's turn, so only one target of an area attack, chosen by whoever controls that figure, and it works from the moment the banner is summoned.

Does Banner of Hope's heal come before wound damage at the start of a turn, and what does it heal?

You choose the order, since both happen at the start of your turn (unlike Regenerate, which always resolves first). It heals allies whose turns start in its range, not objectives (they take no turns) and not the banner itself, and it applies from the round it's summoned for allies who haven't acted yet.

Can the Banner Spear choose which ally's damage the Banner of Valor negates?

No. It's the banner's ability, so it automatically negates the first damage any ally adjacent to it would suffer each round.

For the Banner Spear's banner mastery, do I have to stay within 3 hexes of the banner during movement too?

Yes. The requirement applies at all times, so going farther mid-move fails it even if you end within 3.

For the Banner Spear's Resolved Courage, is adjacency checked when the card is played or when the attack is made?

When the attack is made. The next attack ability that round by you or an ally adjacent to you at that moment uses it up, applying to every target of that one ability.

When does the Drifter gain experience from a persistent card's track?

Whenever the token moves forward onto an experience icon, for whatever reason, even if it earned that icon earlier in the scenario. Moving a token backward never gives experience.

Are the Drifter's use-slot persistent bonuses optional, and can I save a card on its last slot by moving its token back?

Advancing is mandatory: whenever the trigger happens, the token moves, even with no benefit. Moving tokens back is optional. Once the last slot is used the card is lost when that ability finishes, so another card can't move it back to keep it, and dismissing a lost persistent early still sends it to the lost pile.

Can the Drifter's effects that move tokens back (like Fierce Barrage) move tokens on items?

No. The printed Drifter mat says these effects only move tokens on ability card use slots, not on items, and never other characters' tokens. A 2020 pre-release designer answer allowing item tokens came before the final mat.

How does the Drifter's Precision Aim work if its charges run out partway through a multi-target attack?

For a red-hex area ability, the first attack sets the range for the whole ability. Otherwise the +1 range is gone as soon as the last charge is used, so later targets don't get it.

What does the Drifter's Continuous Health boost?

Every heal ability the Drifter performs, on anyone: card heals, long rest heals, Regenerate the Drifter has, item heals. It doesn't boost heals other figures perform on the Drifter or healing traps. Since long rest and Regenerate heals are optional, you can skip them to save a charge.

How long do the shields from the Drifter's Unbreakable and Chunk of Flesh last, and are charges used if damage is already 0?

Each charge gives its shield against one damaging attack and ends with it, so two attacks use two charges. You order your shields, and once other shields reduce an attack to 0 it's no longer a source of damage, so no charge is used; a null doesn't use one either.

Does the Drifter's Crushing Weight use one charge per target of a multi-target melee attack, and when is its bonus added?

One per target, since each target is a separate attack, and it applies to any melee attack even on non-adjacent hexes of an area. The bonus is added with other attack bonuses before the modifier is drawn, so a null still means 0 and a x2 doubles it.

Do loot cards from the Drifter's Scavenger or loot-redraw perks count for personal quests about looting tokens?

No. Those quests count only what you get from looting loot tokens; cards gained through a perk aren't looted from tokens. The redraw comes from the scenario's loot deck, so it does nothing once that deck is empty.

Does the Drifter's Relentless retaliate trigger on melee attacks too, and does it stack?

It triggers on any attack by an enemy within range 2, melee or ranged. Each such attack uses a charge and gets Retaliate 2 for that attack only; it doesn't build up, though it adds to other retaliate. Moving tokens back with it must target two different persistent abilities.

How does the optional token advance on the Drifter's Fortitude work?

It's an optional cost: you may advance one of your persistent tokens to give the attack +2 range, which makes it a ranged attack, and if the token moves onto an experience icon you gain that experience as usual. You can decline it.

Can the Banner Spear's Hail of Spears teleport stunned or immobilized banners, and to different targets?

Yes. It is the Banner Spear's own ability teleporting other figures, not a grant, so the banners' conditions don't matter, and each adjacent banner is handled separately, so they can go next to different targets of the attack.

When the Deathwalker attacks 'as if occupying' a shadow's hex, what is measured from the shadow?

Everything except retaliate. Range, line of sight, push and pull direction and auras such as a Banner Spear banner all use the shadow's hex, and the Deathwalker herself needs no line of sight to the shadow or the target. Retaliate only hits her if her real figure is within its range. With no range listed the attack is melee; with a range, it is ranged.

Can the Deathwalker use Fluid Night's top or similar 'as if occupying a shadow' attacks without a shadow on the map?

No. Attacking from a shadow's hex, and removing that shadow afterwards, is part of how the ability works, not an optional extra, so without a shadow the attack can't be made; use the basic Attack 2 instead. Ordinary attacks never reach through shadows.

Which shadow can Strength of the Abyss remove, and how many attacks does it boost?

It can't remove a shadow that the action you're boosting uses in any way: as the attack's origin, for a bonus (such as Ritual Sacrifice's count), as a cost, or earlier in the same action. With two shadows you can use one for each. It boosts one attack within an attack ability, chosen before the modifier is drawn, though abilities that grant several separate attack abilities, like Wave of Anguish, can each use it.

Can all of Wave of Anguish's attacks hit the same enemy?

Yes. Each shadow gives a separate Attack 3 ability performed from that shadow, so if several shadows are adjacent to one enemy, it can be attacked by each of them.

Does Call of the Abyss create a shadow when the marked enemy is an objective that gets destroyed?

No. You can mark an objective, but objectives are destroyed rather than killed, so 'when that enemy dies' never triggers. A 2022 answer on BGG said it did work; the official FAQ later reversed that after checking with the designer.

How does Call of the Abyss marking work: more than one token, multi-target attacks, and who must make the kill?

Only one enemy can carry its token at a time; marking a new enemy moves the token. You place it before drawing the modifier, so in a multi-target attack you can mark each target in turn as earlier ones die. The shadow appears whenever the marked enemy dies, whoever or whatever kills it.

Where can Deathwalker shadows be placed or moved?

Into any hex except walls, closed doors and hexes with another shadow: obstacles, traps, objectives and enemy hexes are all fine, and 'without hindrance' simply means terrain, figures and obstacles don't slow them. Shadows can pass through other shadows but not end on them, and they can't open doors or enter unrevealed rooms.

Is an enemy standing on a Deathwalker shadow adjacent to that shadow?

Yes. A shadow counts as adjacent to its own hex for all purposes, so abilities hitting enemies adjacent to a shadow include one standing on it; this is an exception to the usual rule. It doesn't make different shadow hexes adjacent to each other, and newly placed shadows use normal adjacency.

What happens to Deathwalker shadows when scenario rules move the characters and summons to a new tile?

Move the shadows the same way, on the Deathwalker's initiative. The FAQ made this a general rule after Scenario 21, whose text should mention character tokens.

What counts as removing shadows for the Deathwalker's masteries?

Any removal by your abilities counts, including shadows you must take off for going over the limit and shadows replaced by Eclipse, and a shadow from Call of the Abyss counts as created even if an ally made the kill.

For Sunless Apparition, where must the removed shadow be, and where does the summon go?

The removed shadow must be adjacent to the Deathwalker (or in her own hex), not anywhere on the map. The summon is then placed in any empty hex adjacent to her as usual, not necessarily where the shadow was.

Does Fluid Night's bottom stop an attack's other effects, and can I use it while stunned?

It negates only the damage, so the attack's conditions, pushes and pulls still apply, with forced movement starting from the shadow you moved to. While stunned you can still use the damage negation, since it's an active bonus, but not the teleport, which is an ability. Moving shadows from a persistent bonus is also an ability, so stun stops it.

Is Deepening Despair's attack ranged, and does shadow-to-shadow movement interact with icy terrain?

It is ranged: it lists a range, so it needs line of sight from the Deathwalker and has disadvantage adjacent. Moving into or out of a shadow has no direction, so it never causes an icy slide, and a slide can't stop on a shadow to hop to another.

Can the Deathwalker open a door with Shadow Step?

Yes, as long as she has a shadow hex to end in. If opening the door makes ending in a shadow impossible, the move ends at once.

Does Anger of the Dead's bottom need line of sight, and do monsters avoid the shadow hexes?

No line of sight is needed, since the bottom is a round-long rule rather than a targeted ability. Shadow hexes don't become negative hexes, so monsters path through them normally.

What counts toward the Boneshaper's mastery of killing 15 of your own summons?

Only kills from your own abilities and perk modifiers that explicitly kill a summon, such as Exploding Corpse, all within one scenario. Dismissing a summon, losing it to enemies, or walking it into a trap doesn't count.

Who is healed by the Boneshaper modifier showing Heal 1 with the Boneshaper icon?

Always the Boneshaper, whether she or one of her summons draws it. Whoever draws it performs the heal, so a summon needs line of sight to her. A modifier that says 'self' heals whoever drew it.

Is the Boneshaper's '+1, kill the attacking summon to add +4 instead' modifier mandatory?

No. Killing the summon is optional; otherwise it's a +1, and if the Boneshaper draws it herself it's just +1. It never applies to Exploding Corpse or Putrid Cloud attacks, because the Boneshaper makes those attacks, so there's no attacking summon.

Who performs the attacks from Exploding Corpse, and can retaliate kill the designated summon partway?

The Boneshaper does: they are her melee attacks against enemies adjacent to the designated summon, using her line of sight and active bonuses, not the summon's traits. So retaliate only applies if she herself is in range, and the summon can't die mid-ability that way.

How does the Boneshaper's perk that summons at the start of the scenario work?

You perform the chosen summon action before round 1, so you suffer its damage and gain its experience. The summon acts normally in round 1, before you, and an element the card infuses (like Angry Spirits' Dark) is strong at the start of round 1.

How do skeletons join the Bone Horde from Endless Numbers?

A skeleton is absorbed only when it ends its movement on the Bone Horde; one passing through can't stop early. On their own turns skeletons follow monster AI, which treats the Horde as a legal end hex, and you choose where they go only with granted moves. You can't summon into its hex or move the Horde onto a skeleton, and a full Horde still kills skeletons that end there.

How many Shambling Skeletons can the Boneshaper have out at once?

There's no special cap: the class has six skeleton standees, matching what its cards can summon (one higher-level card summons two). At level 1 the available cards only summon three.

Does the self-damage from summoning a skeleton remove Regenerate, and can Ward reduce it?

Yes to both. It is ordinary damage, so suffering it removes Regenerate, and Ward or other damage reduction can lower it; negating it entirely keeps Regenerate.

Can the Boneshaper skip a card's summon but still take its mandatory self-damage for the experience?

Yes. The boxed self-damage is a separate ability, so you can perform it alone and gain the action's experience; the designer reportedly saw no reason to forbid it.

How does Putrid Cloud's persistent effect work against multi-target and ranged attacks?

It triggers after each individual attack against a protected figure, so an enemy can die partway through its attack ability. It still applies if the summon dies from the attack, and it can't be skipped; to stop it, remove the card.

Does Malicious Conversion give experience for both its own action and the summon it plays from the discard pile?

Yes. You gain Malicious Conversion's experience and perform the whole summon action, its experience and reduced self-damage included. The summon itself is optional, as it isn't in a mandatory box.

What exactly is mandatory in the Blinkblade's fast and slow boxes?

An ability that sits wholly inside the box (an added move, attack or suffer-damage) must be performed if you're able: move at least one hex, or attack an enemy in range, though you needn't move into range or hit every possible target. Effects the box adds to another ability must be added, but you can then use that ability normally, such as declining Blurry Jab's wound or pushing 0. If you can't perform it (immobilized, disarmed, no target), it's skipped.

Does the Blinkblade have to pay costs inside fast or slow boxes, like poisoning herself on Power Leak or spending a time token?

No. Paying a cost to trigger something is always optional, even inside a mandatory box; skip the cost and you just don't get that effect. You can also pay it and then not use what it bought, such as Power Leak's extra target.

Do fast or slow effects apply when the Blinkblade uses a card for its basic Move 2 or Attack 2?

No. A basic action ignores everything printed on that half, fast and slow boxes included. You're still fast or slow for everything else that round, and effects that trigger on taking a fast or slow action still trigger. If you use the card's real ability, you can't ignore the applicable fast or slow modifiers.

When does the Blinkblade's Hit and Run trigger, and is its Move 3 mandatory?

After an attack action, meaning a card half on which you actually performed at least one attack; choosing an attack card and not attacking doesn't count, and attacks someone grants you aren't your attack action. It triggers once per action, not per attack. The Move 3 itself is optional, but the token still advances each time it triggers.

When does Overdrive's slow Shield 1 (or fast bonus) apply?

Overdrive's top is an ongoing effect once it's in your active area: in later rounds you gain the matching bonus as soon as you declare fast or slow, before anyone acts, for the whole round. It does nothing in the round you first play it.

How does the monster from the Blinkblade's Fractured Timeline behave?

It's a spawned allied monster, not your summon, so it acts on its own type's initiative (that same round, even if the initiative has already passed). You never control a controlled or allied monster's summons; they're enemies to you and to it.

Does the Blinkblade's Borrowed Time trigger on basic actions or a long rest, and is it optional?

Basic Attack 2 and Move 2 count, since they are actions you perform. A long rest's heal is an ability, not an action, so it doesn't, and neither does an action where you couldn't perform any ability. It has use slots, so it's mandatory whenever its condition is met, even if unhelpful.

How does the Blinkblade's Double Time interact with fast effects on other cards?

Each fast effect happens twice, separately. A '+2 move' bonus is added twice to the same move (Move 3 becomes Move 7), an effect that grants Loot 1 gives two Loot 1 abilities, and experience in the repeated part is gained each time. Extra targets bought by poisoning yourself usually can only be taken once, since the first payment poisons you.

How does the Blinkblade's rolling perk card that goes to the active area for +2 on the next attack work?

It's a rolling +0: keep drawing for the current attack and put the card in your active area. Your next attack draws a modifier as usual and adds the +2 as a bonus before discarding the card, even with disadvantage then; a null on that attack wastes it. Drawn during a disadvantaged attack, it's simply discarded.

How does the Blinkblade's Breakneck Speed work?

You play three cards instead of two, one setting initiative, and perform three actions with at least one top and one bottom. Its damage happens during card selection, before anyone's turn. You may still play two cards or long rest; the token advances anyway, and with too few cards the extra benefit is lost.

Does the Blinkblade declare fast or slow on a round she long rests?

Yes, she always declares, and can even go fast if she has a time token to spend; slow is the usual choice. Effects like Hit and Run still need an actual attack to trigger.

Can the Blinkblade's Systems Reboot recover itself?

No. A card only reaches the discard pile once fully resolved, so it can't return itself, though it can return a card that finished earlier that turn. Once active, every remaining card's slow boxes are ignored and fast boxes apply.

Does the Geminate really have two hands?

No. It has one hand of 14 cards with a restriction: you bring exactly 7 of each form and during card selection may only play cards of your current form, even for basic actions. Otherwise it's one hand, so you can lose a card of either form to negate damage, persistent cards keep working after you switch, and each level-up adds just one card.

Does the Geminate switch forms if it plays a switch card but performs none of its abilities?

No. Switching isn't an ability, so you must perform at least one ability of that action for the switch to happen, just as with experience or infusions.

Can the Geminate trigger two switch symbols in one turn, and when does the switch happen?

You may use cards with switch symbols on both actions, but only one switch happens, during the end-of-turn wrap-up. So a card played afterwards in the same turn (for example via an end-of-turn effect) still comes from your current form, and an extra turn granted by another class's card doesn't switch you.

How do the Geminate's 'only range X/Y' attacks work with area patterns and range items?

A target must be both in the pattern and at one of the allowed ranges, so you hit the overlap, and that still applies to alternative patterns such as Locust Host's. Items and abilities that change range don't affect precise ranges at all, so range items are poor picks.

Do persistent loss cards count for the Geminate's mastery about losing cards?

Yes. Playing a persistent loss card counts as losing a card for the mastery, even though it sits in your active area for a while first.

Can the Geminate skip Hornet Stingers' attack and still poison allies and switch forms?

No. The poison refers to the attack's area, so without performing the attack there are no red hexes, nothing else can be done, and with no ability performed there's no switch either.

When do the Geminate's self-conditions on Smoldering Hatred apply?

First. Anything before the colon is a cost paid before the effect, so you're cursed and muddled before the attack, which therefore has disadvantage. It still works if no curse cards are left; the curse just has no effect.

On the Geminate's Reckless Jab or Smoldering Hatred, must I take both self-conditions to get either bonus?

No. Each 'condition self' clause buys its own bonus, so you can take either, both or neither.

Is the Geminate's basic Attack 2 ranged when it's in ranged form?

No. The basic Attack 2 is always a melee attack; the form doesn't change basic actions.

Why does the Geminate's Locust Host have a round bonus icon?

It's left over from an earlier version and does nothing. The action is still a lost action, and the card doesn't stay out until the end of the round.

For the Geminate perk that recovers a card after a lost action, which card's level limits the one recovered?

The card you discard. The recovered card can't be a higher level than the one you discard for it.

Do Changeling's Boon and Harvest the Essence repeat their bless, ward or form switch every turn?

No. Their bless, ward, experience and form switch happen once, when played. Only the end-of-turn element conversion is persistent, it works in either form, and it can't use an element infused that same turn.

If another character uses a Blinkblade or Geminate card (via the Tinkerer's Chimeric Formula), how does it work?

A non-Blinkblade is neither fast nor slow, so no fast or slow effects apply and either initiative may be used. A non-Geminate is in neither form, so the card works normally and its switch icon is ignored.

How do the Astral's Infusions work: is the element cost paid every round, and what triggers their on-infusion abilities?

You consume the listed elements once, when you play the Infusion; its persistent bonus then lasts while the card is in play, and paying again later doesn't re-trigger anything. Its on-infusion ability fires when it's played and again each time you play another Infusion, in any order you like. Spending elements on an ordinary card is just that card's cost and triggers nothing.

Does the Astral's Animated Claymore (Imbue with Life) get Infusion triggers, and what about its Disarm?

It benefits from your active Infusions' persistent effects (as do the other Astral summons, extra hit points included), but not their on-infusion triggers; only the level 8 Spiritbound Falchion gets those. Its 'gain Disarm whenever you don't have it' is mandatory, so a Shackles taking that Disarm just sees it come straight back. You can dismiss the summon at any time outside an ability.

How does the Astral's Stoic Vigilance redirect attacks?

A redirected attack targets the Astral regardless of the attack's range, as though the Astral had briefly swapped places with the original target, so even a melee attack hits a non-adjacent Astral.

With Propulsive Tailwind and Boon of the Tempest active, can the push happen between the attack and the move, and who controls a summon's extra move?

No: the push is a separate ability, so the move comes right after the attack ability, after every target of something like Slashing Cyclone. A summon getting the extra movement uses its normal monster AI for it.

Do the Astral's 'reduce this ability to gain an element' effects work if I never perform the ability?

No. The element comes with the ability, so you must actually perform it at the reduced value. A reduced active bonus such as Gale Barrage's counts once you commit to it, even if you don't attack later that round. A move can't be reduced to 0, but you can step out and back.

Can the Astral perform Gemstone Resonance without consuming its elements, and does its bottom trigger Infusions?

No to both. If an action shows element consumptions in its upper-left corner, all of them must be consumed to perform any part of it. Gemstone Resonance's bottom only counts as two Infusions for effects that count them; only its top is an Infusion that triggers others.

Where can the Meteor create hazardous terrain, and does terrain from items count toward his limit?

Only in featureless hexes: not on another overlay, an objective or his own existing tile, and creating it under a figure doesn't damage it. All hazardous terrain the Meteor creates, even through an item, uses his class tiles and counts toward his limit.

How does the Meteor's Quenched Rage work?

The top's push is Range 1, and 'through' means the enemy both enters and leaves a hazardous hex, so starting or ending in one doesn't count (the same goes for his mastery). If an obstacle can't legally be created, the hazardous terrain is just removed. Brittle doubles the doubled damage again; Ward halves it. On the bottom, three circles are the -1 attacks and the fourth tracks the doubling, which isn't reduced.

Can the Meteor remove his persistent cards early, and is Hardened Spike mandatory?

His persistent cards can't be removed early except at the start of a rest (short or long), and Hardened Spike just lacks its mandatory icon by mistake. A card still leaves as normal once its track runs out. You can't declare a rest with fewer than two discards by counting on removing one.

What happens to the Meteor's hazardous terrain and his ally-protection perk when he exhausts or for other terrain?

The tiles stay on the map, but the perk works like an active effect and stops once he exhausts, so they then hurt everyone. The perk only covers hazardous terrain the Meteor created, and it protects all his allies, summons included.

How does the Meteor's Living Magma work?

Its start-of-turn attack targets an enemy adjacent to any hazardous terrain (not one merely standing on it, since a target's own hex isn't adjacent to it) and in line of sight; it needn't be next to the Meteor, and the token advances every turn even with no target. It can move any one-hex hazardous tile, including one in his own hex, out and back if it moves at least one hex, but not through other overlays. Its bottom's damage comes from the ability, so it hits allies and flyers.

Can the Meteor's Flowing Fire put hazardous terrain in red hexes emptied by the attack, or attack empty hexes just to make terrain?

Hexes emptied by a kill or a push count, since the terrain is placed after the attack and its forced movement. But the attack needs at least one enemy target in the pattern; you can't attack empty hexes.

Does the Meteor's Eruption damage flying figures or enemies already on hazardous terrain?

Flyers in the new hazardous hexes take it, since it's direct damage from the card, not terrain damage. Enemies already standing on older hazardous terrain nearby aren't affected. If you perform it, it affects allies too.

When does an effect that doubles an attack's value (like the Meteor's) apply?

Among the attack's own bonuses, before the modifier card: add bonuses such as a +1 or Poison first (you choose the order), then double, then draw.

If the Meteor adds targets to Lava Bomb, is hazardous terrain created for each, and is it mandatory?

Yes, each extra target or attack gets its own terrain, since it's part of the attack. Creating it is optional unless boxed as mandatory; the element is still infused if you attack.

Can the Shards bless the same character twice with Shape the Path, and can Empowering Note boost basic actions?

Yes to both: basic Move 2 and Attack 2 are abilities. Empowering Note only raises numbers actually printed on an ability, so it can't raise an implied Target 1 or a melee attack's range.

How do the Shards' resonance spends work?

A wave action needs at least one resonance spent, and only if its ability can actually be performed (an attack needs a target, a loot needs something to loot), though you may add targets beyond the enemies present. Unsustainable Wave's extra damage is 'suffer damage', needing no line of sight, and triggers after each target's attack.

Does the Shards' Precognition perk work at the start of a scenario or if I already have the condition?

Not in the starting room, which isn't a newly revealed room. Gaining a condition you already have still counts as gaining it, unless the effect needs you not to have it.

How do I track what a Trap-class trap does, and are those traps special?

Put damage and condition tokens on the trap tile, using damage tokens to show healing on positive traps. Once placed it is an ordinary trap: anyone can spring it, the class's trap abilities also work on scenario traps, and traps don't follow the party when a scenario moves everyone.

With the Trap's Careful Footing perk, can I stand on traps without springing them?

Yes. You choose whether each trap you enter springs, so you can end your turn standing on one. You also count as adjacent to a trap in your own hex for your targeted abilities.

Does replacing a trap count as creating one, and can Proficient Hunter add damage or heal to any trap?

Yes to both. Replacing means destroying the tile and creating a new one, so creation bonuses apply, and damage or heal can be added to a trap that had none, so one trap can carry both. Merging traps' effects isn't creating.

Can the Trap chain jumps from trap to trap with Spring Loaded?

Not jumps. A jump only springs a trap where it formally ends, so any movement that trap would add is lost. You can take just the +2 movement (without jump) from each trap and walk onto the next, then accept jump at the last one, so the rest of the move is a jump.

How does the Trap's Unavoidable Outcome work?

It triggers on forced movement too, and it is mandatory, so it would spring a helpful trap on an enemy unless you remove the card before that enemy moves. It doesn't trigger for an enemy that never leaves its hex. It can spring a trap adjacent to a flying monster, but not one it hovers over. When the top springs a trap on your attack's target, the effect resolves before retaliate and a kill counts as yours.

Can the Trap's Persistent Pitfalls be used in the middle of a push, and does destroying a trap trigger it?

Yes, 'immediately' means mid-push. Only springing triggers it; destroying a trap just removes it.

If a monster loses flying while over an obstacle or a trap, what happens?

Over an obstacle it moves to the nearest hex without one and takes no damage, a change from Gloomhaven. Over a trap it springs the trap, and whoever removed its flying gets the kill credit, as with a push.

Must the Trap's Dangerous Ground spring every trap?

No. You pick traps one at a time and can only spring one that has a figure within range to apply it to, which may be an invisible figure since applying the effect isn't targeted.

Does the Trap's Spike Strip put traps along every path to the hex?

No. Pick one direct path (fewest hexes; you choose among ties) and create a trap in each empty hex along it, skipping any that aren't empty.

Does the Trap's Flurry of Nails affect a trap in the hex where my move ends?

No. 'Moved through' means hexes you enter and then leave; a trap in your final hex just triggers normally after the move.

For the Shackles' Burned at Both Ends and Chained by Spite, does the enemy take the damage I chose or what I actually suffered?

What you actually suffered. If you are brittle and choose 4, you suffer 8 and so does the target. 'Damage suffered' is capped by remaining hit points, while 'would suffer' (as on Reject the Gift) isn't.

Can the Shackles transfer a condition to an immune enemy, or while Delayed Malady stops its conditions being removed?

An immune target is fine: the condition still leaves you, it just never lands. But if you can't remove your own conditions (Delayed Malady, or a card saying they can't be removed), transfer abilities like Shared Affliction's bottom or Line of Transference can't be used. Shared Affliction's top only adds your conditions to your attacks without removing them, so it works alongside Delayed Malady.

If the Shackles' Line of Transference gets extra targets, does each target receive the removed condition, and when is it removed?

Every target receives the one condition you removed. Isaac ruled that when Line of Transference becomes a multi-target attack, the removed condition is applied to all of its targets.

How does the Shackles' Delayed Malady affect curses and its other conditions?

Curses aren't affected: you're only cursed for a moment, so a curse card is still added to your deck and can't be held or transferred. Your other conditions can't be removed or expire while it's active, but you ignore their effects, so poison doesn't block heals. Wound already taken at the start of your turn still happened.

When do my conditions fall off after Delayed Malady ends or is dismissed?

End-of-turn conditions like Disarm and Muddle drop at your next end-of-turn wrap-up. Dismissed before or during your turn, they come off at the end of that turn, unless you gained them that same turn, in which case they last through your next turn. You can dismiss it any time outside another ability, but you forfeit its last experience.

How does the Shackles' Blood Ritual work: line of sight, who caused the condition, and self-condition costs?

It needs no line of sight, though range can't be counted through walls. A condition you take this way still counts as caused by the monster that inflicted it, which matters for some items. Abilities that need you to give yourself a condition still work while it's active.

Is the Shackles' Reprisal top missing an icon, and can Wracked with Pain skip its Wound?

Reprisal's top is missing its round bonus icon. Wracked with Pain's Wound can be skipped, so you can just stun (and possibly make brittle).

How does the Shackles' Reject the Gift work?

It covers only the first damage you would suffer that round. Ward or brittle adjust that damage first (brittle doubles and is used up), then it acts like negation and sends the full 'would suffer' amount, not capped by your hit points, to the enemy that caused it.

Do the Shackles' 'when you suffer damage' cards (The Agony of Others, Reversal of Fate) trigger if I negate the damage or it exhausts me?

No. If your hit point dial didn't go down, you didn't suffer damage, whatever prevented it, and if the damage exhausts you, your active cards are gone before they can trigger. One source of damage can trigger several such cards at once.

For the Shackles' Transferred Injury, is the damage based on the heal value or the hit points actually restored?

The hit points actually restored. A heal that only removes poison or wound, or lands on a full-health figure, counts as 0, though attack modifiers can still raise that 0.

When the Shackles suffers an ally's attack damage instead of them, does its retaliate trigger?

No. The Shackles isn't being attacked, it just suffers damage, so retaliate and attack-triggered effects don't fire, and shields can't reduce it.

Where does the Snowflake create hazardous terrain, and is it tile-limited?

In featureless hexes (figures may be there, other overlays may not), adjacent to the Snowflake when the card says so. It isn't limited; use any suitable overlay tiles. Its damage is the normal hazardous amount for the scenario level, which the mat's scale shows.

What's the range of the Snowflake's ally heal modifier cards?

Unlimited range, but as a heal it's targeted, so the ally needs to be in line of sight.

For the Snowflake's mastery about the first ally to suffer damage having one of your conditions, what counts?

If no ally suffers damage all scenario, it succeeds, like a rest-related battle goal when you never rest. Bless and curse don't count, since they're never held as conditions, and conditions an ally gives itself through an ability you granted aren't ones you applied; lasting ones you apply, like Ward or Regenerate, work.

When does the Snowflake's Chilling Impact trigger?

At the end of each of your forced movement abilities that actually moves a target at least one hex; a push or pull of 0 doesn't count. A multi-target push like Polar Vortex is one ability, so all targets move first and the damage comes after. Pushes in attacks you grant an ally belong to that ally and don't count.

Does the Snowflake's Storm Wall wind consumption damage the red hexes?

No. It only hits hexes just outside the pattern, as a separate ability, so you can push enemies out of the pattern before it happens.

How does the Fist's Sure Footing perk work, and does it help when jumping over ice?

When you enter icy terrain you may ignore the slide and instead gain +1 movement in any direction (ordinary movement, so difficult terrain still costs). While jumping, ice has no effect on you to replace, so you gain nothing.

Can the Fist use Frost Eruption just to create icy terrain and infuse Ice without attacking?

No. Abilities that refer to an attack's pattern need that attack to have been performed, so without attacking there are no red hexes for the icy terrain. The same applies to similar cards such as the Coral's Crashing Surge.

How does the Fist's One with the Mountain work?

Regenerate comes back immediately whenever you lose it, so you always have it while the card is active. Recovering a level X card costs the level 1 amount of damage, and it can trigger a still-active round effect like Encased Punch, but can't recover a card already in your discard pile and keep its effect.

When does the Fist's 'suffer 1 less damage' (Fury of the Mountain, Thick Frost) apply, and does it cover retaliate from its own attack?

Last, when damage is actually suffered, after ward and brittle. On Fury of the Mountain the bonus only starts after the attack above it has fully resolved, so it doesn't reduce that attack's retaliate.

Does the top of the Fist's The Mountain's Fist always infuse Earth, or only on a kill?

Always. The infusion is a standalone mandatory one that happens whenever you perform any part of the action.

Do the Kelp's on-kill effects trigger on objectives, and do deaths from an ally's wound or bane give trophies?

Objectives are destroyed, not killed, so they never trigger on-kill effects. A trophy for an enemy dying to wound or bane only needs the death, whoever applied the condition, though such deaths give no kill credit.

Does the Kelp's Ink Cloud bottom make enemies invisible, and does it affect me?

It affects you and all allies within range, as a positive 'target all' ability, but never enemies.

How do the Kelp's trophy spends work on Skull Collection and Grim Trophies?

Skull Collection can poison several enemies in one turn if you have enough trophies. On Grim Trophies you must decide how many to spend at the start of the action, not one at a time between moves and attacks, and its movement is optional.

Does the Coral discard all its active Tides on any rest, or only when forced to rest?

On any rest, short or long, even with cards still in hand. Tide cards in your hand or lost pile stay where they are.

How does the Coral's Rising Flood work: do I need a water tile for the Move 3, and where can water go?

The bottom's parts are independent ('designate ... and', not 'to'): you can just Move 3 with no water, or relocate a designated one-hex water tile without moving, even while immobilized. A two-hex tile isn't a valid choice. You can place water in your own hex, since it counts as adjacent for placing tiles.

Does the Coral's Smashing Torrent Tide trigger on a move another character grants me?

Yes. It happens on a different turn, but it's still you performing a move ability. Its level 2 sibling's 'after you move' damage likewise triggers once per turn, so again on someone else's turn.

On the Coral's Shuck, are the repeated Move 1 and Attack 1 separate abilities?

Yes, each Move 1 and Attack 1 per Tide is its own ability. Consuming Light at the start adds +1 to every move but gives its experience only once, effects that boost all your moves boost each one, and items that affect a single ability, such as the Swiftness Potion, affect only one of them.

For the Coral, does icy terrain count as water, is it immune to water's difficult terrain, and can water tiles run out?

Icy terrain isn't water, the Coral pays normal difficult terrain costs unless a card or Tide says otherwise, and water tiles aren't limited, so proxy them. In Scenario 73, its hexes count as water for the Coral's abilities and perks.

Is the Coral's mastery about having more active cards than discards at each rest met if I never rest?

As written, yes: a requirement checked each time you rest is satisfied if you never rest, like rest-based battle goals, though some players feel it misses the intent.

Does the Coral's Overwhelming Wave let me play a third card in the same round, and must one be a Tide?

No to both. Cards are selected at the start of the round, so the extra card only applies from the next round, and among the three you need at least one top and one bottom action, not a Tide.

How does the Prism's starting mode card work?

Before round 1 you play it to set your initial mode, gaining its experience. It counts toward your hand size but isn't one of the two cards you play in round 1.

How does the Prism's Transfer work, and can it transfer into a summon over an obstacle?

You need another of your summons on the map: you take on its damage and conditions, switch your mode to its card, and move into its hex, while the summon you were leaves a figure in the hex you left. Transfer uses teleport rules, so you need a hex you can legally occupy (not an obstacle unless you're flying), and scenario teleport bans apply.

After the Prism transfers, does the summon it left get a turn that round?

Only if that summon's place in the summon order hasn't passed yet. Transferring isn't summoning and doesn't reset the order: leaving a summon during your own turn means it has already missed its turn, while a transfer triggered by an earlier summon's modifier can leave a later summon its turn.

For the Prism's Launch Pod, does the target need to survive, and which card can I play for the summon?

No: you can summon even if the attack kills the target (the FAQ treats this as card-specific errata), using the target's hex after any push or pull. The summon action is the top or bottom half of a summon card from your hand, chosen as Launch Pod resolves, not the other card you played.

What is the errata for the Prism's Long Range Missile?

Add to its end: if the damage came from an attack with other conditions or effects, you suffer them instead, so a push or poison aimed at your summon hits you. Transfer resolves target by target, so a monster's remaining attacks against a single chosen summon fail after you transfer.

If the Prism's Leaper can't reach its focus, will it attack another enemy?

No. It focuses on the enemy farthest away (by movement, then range, then initiative) and, like any monster, only attacks its focus.

When a Prism summon draws a modifier with a Prism-specific effect (grant a summon Move 2, transfer), who uses it?

The Prism: class-specific modifier effects always benefit the deck's owner, whoever drew them. A 'Heal 1 self' card heals the summon that drew it. A granted move comes after the attack, so it can't dodge that attack's retaliate.

Is the Prism's first perk a misprint, and how do Mortar Shells and the Shield Spider work?

The perk isn't a misprint; it thins the deck by removing the -2 and a +1. Mortar Shells' pattern only applies to ranged attacks, so a granted melee attack doesn't get it. The Shield Spider wards itself if it lacks Ward, otherwise the closest ally without it.

With the Prism's Remote Override perk, what initiative can I declare?

Any value from 01 to 99, chosen after monster ability cards are revealed; items and effects may then push it outside that range, but you can't declare a value beyond it. The summon still moves then attacks; you only control its path and targets.

How do the Prism's Aimed Assault and other modes combine?

Aimed Assault's added range turns a single-target melee attack into a ranged one, so melee-only bonuses no longer apply, while you can then add a ranged bonus such as Rapid Fire's extra target. Attacks that already have multiple targets don't get it. Its -1 move affects moves the Prism performs, including ones granted to it, but not moves it grants others.

How do the Drill's pressure changes work?

They're mandatory whenever you perform any part of the action they're on, but they aren't costs: you can use an ability even if the pressure can't change afterwards, such as raising pressure while already at maximum. All pressure changes from an action, including from modifiers, apply together when that card half finishes, in any order, within the limits.

Are pressure changes on the Drill's attack modifier cards mandatory?

No. Added effects on modifier cards, pressure changes included, are always optional unless in a mandatory box.

When do the Drill's Beam Axe bottom pressure effects trigger?

The over-pressure effect isn't targeted, so you always gain its experience and lose pressure. The low-pressure heal is targeted, so its pressure change and experience only happen if an ally is in range to heal.

Which parts of the Drill's Bronze Plating are persistent?

The shield and the ban on moving last as long as the card is active. The pressure check, experience, Regenerate and pressure change resolve once, when you play it.

Can the Drill discard Unstable Core before its damage happens?

Yes, nothing stops you removing it first, though it combines nicely with Radiation if you keep it.

Does the Drill's Radiation redirect self-damage from the Hammer Potion?

No. Radiation only redirects the Drill's own red-boxed self-damage; the potion's damage is a different kind.

How does the Drill's Recursion handle double pressure changes?

A double change is two single changes, each able to trigger Recursion. Recursion turns the next single change into a double, so an ability that already has two ends up with three.

Can the Drill's Curious Gear top destroy a trap with no enemy around, and does the three-mark perk count cards about to be played?

Curious Gear's trap effect has to be applied to an enemy, so it can't be used just to destroy a trap. For the three-mark perk, 'losing all your cards' includes the ones you were about to play.

What can a brand-new character buy with their starting gold?

Items from the available purchasable supply: at the very start that is items 120 to 128, plus Gloomhaven items 10, 25, 72, 105, 109 and 116 if you own Gloomhaven, and later any purchasable items that have been sold back. Starting characters get 30 gold; later ones get 10 × prosperity + 20.

Can a new character save starting gold or spend it on enhancements?

No. Starting gold must be spent on items immediately, and whatever is left is lost, so it can't fund enhancements or later purchases.

Can we play Gloomhaven, Forgotten Circles or Jaws of the Lion classes in Frosthaven?

Yes, from the start of the campaign, using any class you've unlocked in another game. They begin as new Frosthaven characters at the normal starting level, not as your old leveled-up character. Official crossover sheets add traits and updated perks, and you may miss some class-specific events tied to Frosthaven classes.

Which Gloomhaven items can be used in Frosthaven?

Only the specific Gloomhaven items the rules list, and only if they are available in your Gloomhaven campaign: items 10, 25, 72, 105, 109 and 116 at first, with more opening up as buildings are built. They join the purchasable supply. The list uses first-edition numbers, and there's no official list for Gloomhaven Second Edition.

Can players join or leave mid-campaign, or take over someone else's character?

Yes. Characters can be added, set aside or handed to another player between scenarios, keeping their experience, items and quest. Just recalculate the scenario level from whoever is actually playing.

How much of a scenario can we look at when deciding which one to play?

Everything on its main page or pages in the scenario book: requirements, complexity, goal, introduction, monster types, overlay tiles, map layout, loot deck and treasure locations. Section book entries, including what treasures contain, stay closed until you're sent there.

How is the scenario level calculated, including in solo mode?

Average the characters' levels and divide by 2, rounding up, so two level 1s and two level 2s make level 1. In solo mode (or with open information) add 1 to the average before halving, which only raises the level when the average is even. Only the level changes; rewards follow it. You may also pick any level from 0 to 7, deciding before the monster stat cards are sleeved.

What is the most monster types a scenario needs on the board at once?

Six. A few scenarios list more than six types, but none needs more than six on the map at the same time, which matches the six stat sleeves in the box.

Why are some scenario markers and numbered doors grey instead of green?

Grey and green icons mean the same thing; there are only enough physical tokens for the green ones, so grey ones aren't placed but the hex still works as described. Doors sharing a number form one group for unlocking, opening and section links.

In what order do start-of-scenario effects, item effects and road event effects apply?

Items and their start-of-scenario effects are set up before road event and scenario effects are applied, so an item can respond to a condition an event gives you, and an impair from an event doesn't block it. The party orders any effects the rules leave untimed.

Do battle goals give anything if the scenario is lost, and are they reshuffled?

No checkmarks on a loss, even if the goal was met; each new attempt deals fresh goals. At the end of every scenario all battle goals, kept and discarded, go back into the deck.

For the Duelist battle goal, does moving to another hex adjacent to the same enemy, or sliding on ice, fail it?

Moving out of any hex adjacent to an enemy fails it, even into another adjacent hex, unless it's forced movement. An icy slide counts as whatever put you on the ice: sliding after your own move fails it, sliding after a push or pull doesn't.

For goals like Miser (never exit a room with loot in it), does escaping, exhausting or ending the scenario count as exiting?

Exhausting and the scenario ending don't count as exiting a room, so in a one-room scenario the goal is met automatically. Escaping is the open question: players relayed a designer answer from social media saying escaping does count as exiting, but there's no ruling on BGG and some players read it the other way.

For the Ascetic battle goal, does looting a treasure tile count as looting a loot token?

No. Treasure tiles aren't loot tokens, and loot cards a treasure hands out aren't either. In a solo scenario the goal succeeds automatically.

For the Daredevil battle goal, does playing a persistent loss card count as adding a card to my lost pile?

Not yet. The card sits in your active area while its effect lasts and only counts once it actually moves to the lost pile.

For the Sluggard battle goal, when do I need to be at full hit points?

When you actually perform the long rest at initiative 99, not when you declare it, so you can take damage earlier in the round and be healed back to full first.

For the Tormentor battle goal, does an ability that applies two conditions at once count, and does Curse count?

Conditions from one ability land at the same time, so the enemy needs a negative condition before that ability; two conditions together don't satisfy it. Cursing an enemy that already has a condition counts, but a curse doesn't stay on the monster as a condition for later.

Does self-damage from my own card count as 'damage from an attack' for battle goals like Wastrel?

No. Damage from an attack means damage an attack deals to its target; damage you suffer as a cost or side effect is a separate effect, which is also why shields don't reduce it.

For the Exterminator battle goal, do monster types that never appear in the scenario need to be killed?

Most players read it as only the monster types that actually appear; a type listed for an unexplored room or an unused summon doesn't have to be killed. There's no official ruling.

How do challenge cards work?

Don't use them until the Town Hall unlocks them; shuffle the deck at setup. From then on, at the start of each scenario the party draws the number shown by the Town Hall level and keeps up to the limit (or none). Kept challenges apply for the whole scenario and succeed or fail with it: on a win each character gains 2 experience and the town guard a checkmark per challenge, and they go to the completed pile; on a loss they go to the bottom of the deck, which isn't reshuffled.

How do the Barbed, Keep Watch and single-target challenges work in tricky cases?

Barbed checks whether a target is undamaged at the start of the attack. Keep Watch affects summons as well as characters, and since objectives never take turns, all attacks against them have disadvantage. A challenge about single-target attacks doesn't apply once a monster set consumes an element to make its attack multi-target, because that happens before any of them act.

What is the difference between an empty, featureless and unoccupied hex, and can I summon onto a loot token?

A featureless hex has no overlay tiles other than corridors, pressure plates or open doors; an unoccupied hex has no figure; an empty hex is both. Tokens (loot, shadows, scenario aid tokens) are not overlay tiles, so a hex with only a loot token is still empty and summons and spawns can go there. Difficult, icy or hazardous terrain, traps, obstacles and objectives all make a hex non-empty.

Does a figure take damage when hazardous terrain is created in the hex it's already standing in?

No, unless the ability itself says the figure suffers damage. Hazardous terrain only hurts a figure that enters it, and it doesn't trigger again at the start of that figure's next turn or when it leaves.

Do I take hazardous terrain damage when moving through a hazardous hex an ally is standing on?

Yes. Entering the hex is what causes the damage, and an ally standing there doesn't change that.

Can a hex hold more than one overlay tile, for example a trap on difficult or icy terrain?

No. A hex can only have one overlay tile (corridors and open doors aside), so you can't place a trap on terrain or move an overlay into or through another overlay. Traps and obstacles also can't be placed in occupied hexes.

Can I place a trap or other overlay in an open door hex?

Yes. An open door counts as a corridor, and corridors don't count as overlay tiles for deciding what else can be placed in the hex.

What if we run out of a type of overlay tile, such as water tiles for a Lurker Wavethrower?

Use a proxy. Overlay tiles are not limited by the number in the box, so effects that create them keep working; what matters is the size and type of tile you're told to place.

Is water always difficult terrain?

Not as a fixed rule. An overlay's type is set by its border colour in the scenario key, and water is almost always shown as difficult terrain, but it can be something else. Water created by an effect counts as whatever the scenario key says water is, or difficult terrain if the key doesn't say.

Does moving from one water hex to another on the same tile still cost 2 movement?

Yes, when the water is difficult terrain. You pay 2 movement for every difficult hex you enter, even inside the same multi-hex tile, and nothing extra for leaving. Land to water to water costs 4.

Can figures move or attack across the edge between two map tiles anywhere, or only through doors?

Only where the edge is covered. The border hexes and edges of a map tile are walls unless a door, corridor or other overlay covers them, so doors and corridors are the only ways through, and hexes on either side of a wall line aren't adjacent.

Is a figure standing in an open doorway in either room?

Neither. An open door works as a corridor for most purposes, but it still separates the two rooms and isn't part of either of them.

Is a trap removed after it is sprung?

Yes. A trap applies its effect to whoever sprang it and is then removed, unless the scenario's special rules say otherwise. Hazardous terrain, by contrast, stays on the map.

Does destroying an objective count as a kill for battle goals, quests or on-kill abilities?

No. Objectives are destroyed, not killed, so destroying one never counts as a kill, even when the scenario treats it as an enemy.

Are objectives figures or overlay tiles, and what initiative do they have?

Both: an objective is an overlay tile and also a figure, so its hex is occupied, it can't be moved through, and it isn't an obstacle. It is immune to conditions and forced movement, never takes turns, and counts as initiative 99 for focus unless the scenario says otherwise. A destroyed objective is removed from the map.

Can I heal an allied objective or give it Shield or Retaliate?

You can heal it. Grant abilities don't work on objectives, since objectives can't be commanded, but non-grant effects that apply to allies, such as 'all adjacent allies gain Shield 1', do apply to it.

Can I create or move obstacles to seal off part of a room, or destroy obstacles between map tiles?

No to both. Manipulating obstacles can't cut one area of the map off from another (you can make paths long, and areas already cut off by the map are fine), and overlay tiles covering a map tile's border hexes can't be manipulated at all. An obstacle can otherwise be destroyed just to clear it.

What are players allowed to say to each other while choosing ability cards?

Anything except exact numbers and card names. You can point at hexes, ask someone to end in or stay out of a hex, say which monster you want to hit, mention conditions you'll apply, and use vague timing like 'early' or 'late'. Coded numbers ('low tens', 'voting age') break the rule. Once cards are revealed, the limits end and you can discuss everything.

How is a tie broken when two characters have the same initiative on both cards?

The party decides which character goes first. That order then counts as the initiative order for everything else, including monster focus ties.

Does 'earlier in initiative order' mean the initiative numbers or the order figures actually took their turns?

The numbers, as the board stands now. A monster revealed by a door that acts right away but has a lower initiative value still counts as earlier than a figure with a higher value that already acted, and focus ties use the current situation (for example which Ice Wraiths are elite now).

Can initiative go above 99, and is a long rest always the last turn?

Modifiers can push an initiative below 1 or above 99. A long rest happens at initiative 99, so it is usually last, but something with a higher value goes after it. On a tie at 99, characters act before monsters, and the party orders tied characters.

Can I play my two cards and perform no actions at all, not even the basic Attack 2 or Move 2?

Yes. You may decline either or both actions; a card whose action you don't perform is just discarded with no effect. The basic actions are an option, never a requirement.

What counts as performing an action, for effects like the Blinkblade's Borrowed Time?

Only the top or bottom half of an ability card is an action, and you must perform at least one of its abilities for the action to count. A long rest's heal is an ability, not an action, and a move-only action while immobilized or an attack-only action while disarmed isn't performed. Granting another figure an ability doesn't count as you performing that ability.

What counts as an attack action?

A card half on which you actually perform at least one attack. If you skip every attack on it, or have no valid target, it isn't an attack action, which matters for effects like the Blinkblade's Hit and Run.

When an ability lets me play an extra card, can I use its basic Attack 2 or Move 2, and when do I choose it?

It depends on the wording. If the effect lets you perform any top or bottom action of the extra card, the basic actions are allowed; if it demands a specific kind of action (like the Boneshaper's summon requirement), they aren't. You choose the extra card when the effect happens, not during card selection.

How are 'at the end of your turn' effects timed against element infusion, conditions expiring and end-of-turn looting?

There are two stages. First, while your turn is still going, you can use abilities that trigger 'at the end of your turn' (like the Geminate's Harvest the Essence). Then, once you formally finish, comes a wrap-up in which no abilities can be performed: infused elements become strong, end-of-turn conditions expire and you loot your hex, in any order you like.

Do special rules or monsters revealed by opening a door take effect immediately?

Yes. Section links are read the moment their condition is met, even in the middle of an ability, and new rules apply from then on unless the section says otherwise. Then the character who opened the door carries on with their turn.

Do a scenario's special rules still apply after we open a door into a new room?

Yes. Special rules last for the whole scenario across every room unless they explicitly say they only apply to part of it.

What's the difference between 'figures' and 'characters' in card and scenario text?

'Figures' covers everything on the map represented by a standee or miniature: characters, summons, monsters, scenario allies and objectives. 'Characters' means only the player characters, not their summons or allies.

Does a bonus that works 'once each turn' apply again when an ally takes a granted attack on someone else's turn?

Yes. 'Each turn' means each figure's turn, not each round, and a granted ability is performed by the receiving figure during the granter's turn, so the bonus can apply again.

How is line of sight determined in Frosthaven?

You have line of sight if any line can be drawn from any part of your hex to any part of the target's hex without touching a wall line. Only walls and closed doors block it; figures and obstacles don't. This is the Jaws of the Lion style rule, not Gloomhaven's corner-to-corner version.

When an ability is performed as if I occupied another hex, where is line of sight traced from?

From that other hex. The rulebook says to draw the line from the hex you are treated as occupying, so your actual figure doesn't need line of sight to the target (this is how the Deathwalker's shadow attacks work).

Does designating a figure or hex (for example the Boneshaper's Exploding Corpse) require line of sight?

No. Designating isn't a targeted ability, so line of sight doesn't matter for it. Any attack or other targeted ability that follows on the card still needs line of sight from whoever performs it.

Can I choose to leave some enemies out of a 'target all' ability?

Yes, unless the ability is in a mandatory box or it is a negative effect landing on you or your allies. This is a change from Gloomhaven, where 'target all' hit everything it could.

Do I have to attack every enemy in the red hexes of an area-of-effect attack?

No. The red hexes only show where potential targets can be, and you may skip any of them unless the ability has a mandatory box. This overturns the old Gloomhaven FAQ ruling so it matches all other optional targeting.

If an ability says all enemies and allies suffer damage but isn't mandatory, can I apply it only to enemies?

No. You can't perform part of a single ability. Because it isn't mandatory you may skip the whole thing, but if you use it, it hits every ally and every enemy it describes (this is how the Geminate's Feeding Frenzy works).

If a ranged attack's range is reduced to 1, does it become a melee attack?

No. Range can't drop below 1, and a ranged attack stays ranged even at Range 1, so it still has disadvantage against an adjacent target.

What does +1 Range do to a melee attack, such as on Blinkblade cards?

It turns it into a ranged attack. A melee attack counts as Range 1, so +1 Range makes it a Range 2 ranged attack (+2 Range makes it Range 3), and from then on it follows ranged rules, including disadvantage against adjacent targets. For the Blinkblade, the range change from being slow is mandatory.

Does my ranged attack have disadvantage if some other enemy is adjacent to me?

No. Only the target matters: a ranged attack gains disadvantage when its target is adjacent to you. Other enemies standing next to you don't affect an attack on a non-adjacent target.

Can I ignore the range on a ranged attack card to attack an adjacent enemy as melee?

No. You can skip added effects such as a condition, but the range is part of the attack itself. If you want a melee attack, use the card's basic Attack 2 instead, which also means none of the card's other effects or element infusions happen.

Is an attack that says 'within X hexes' but has no range icon a melee attack?

Yes. Any attack without the range icon is melee, even if it uses an area template or a 'within X hexes' limit, so melee-only bonuses apply to it.

Does a Target 2 attack have to hit two enemies?

No. Target X lets you attack up to X different enemies in range, so you can choose fewer.

Does a positive 'target all' ability include me, and do abilities that affect 'allies' include me?

A positive 'target all' ability such as 'Heal 2, Target all, Range 1' includes you, because you are within range of yourself and positive abilities may target the acting figure. But an ability that names 'allies' never includes you, since a figure is not its own ally.

Does 'a figure treats its own hex as adjacent' mean an enemy is adjacent to its own hex, so I can place an overlay under it?

No. The rule only applies to the figure performing the ability: your own hex counts as adjacent to you for your own targeting and placement. A target's hex is not adjacent to the target, so an effect that places a tile 'adjacent to the target' must use one of the six hexes around it. Deathwalker shadows are a stated exception.

Do I need line of sight to every figure in an area-of-effect attack?

Yes. Each figure in the red hexes is a separate target, and you can only target figures you have line of sight to, so anyone hidden behind a wall in the pattern isn't hit.

For a ranged area-of-effect attack, do all of the red hexes need to be within range?

No. Only one red hex has to be within the attack's range, and it doesn't need to contain a figure, but it can't be a hex inside a wall line. The rest of the pattern can stretch beyond the range or over walls, and every target still needs line of sight. The Geminate's 'only range X/Y' attacks are an exception: every target must be in those range bands.

Can a melee area-of-effect pattern reach an enemy through a doorway or across a wall?

Yes, if you have line of sight. A melee pattern is laid out with its grey hex on your figure; it has no initial hex or range to check, and any red hex that holds an enemy you can see can be attacked, even on another tile.

Where can the extra target from +1 Target on an area-of-effect attack be?

Anywhere within the ability's range outside the pattern. It can be any enemy you haven't already attacked with that ability, in any direction, and it still needs line of sight.

How do attacks work against an objective that covers several hexes?

It is still one figure. An area attack covering several of its hexes hits it only once, and if any part of it is adjacent to you, a ranged attack on it has disadvantage and its retaliate can reach you, whichever hex you aim at. Every one of its hexes is targetable, which matters for patterns and the Geminate's precise ranges.

Do active bonuses that affect all allies or all enemies need line of sight?

No. Only targeted abilities need line of sight (attacks, conditions, heals, forced movement, commanding figures and manipulating tiles), and an active bonus isn't one of them. Any targeted ability the bonus lets you perform still needs it.

Do heals, including heals from attack modifier cards, need line of sight?

Yes. Every heal is a targeted ability, whatever its source (a card, an item or a modifier card), so the healed figure must be in line of sight. Grant abilities are targeted too and need it as well.

Does an effect like 'enemies within range 2 suffer 2 damage' need line of sight?

No. Suffering damage isn't a targeted ability, so line of sight is ignored, though the range still can't be counted through walls.

Can I melee attack an enemy on the other side of a wall line if I can see it?

No. Two hexes separated by a wall line count as range 2 from each other even when there is line of sight between them, so a melee attack can't reach; a ranged attack with range 2 or more can.

Is a Loot ability a ranged ability for items or effects that boost ranged abilities?

No. Loot isn't a ranged ability, even though it has a distance value.

When does a monster set infuse or consume the element shown on its ability card?

Whenever at least one monster of the set performs any ability on the card, even one the element doesn't modify. The element is consumed at the start of the first monster's turn and every monster of the set gets the bonus, while an infusion happens after the last monster's turn. If no monster performs anything (all stunned, or none can move or attack; moving 0 hexes doesn't count), nothing is infused or consumed. This differs from Gloomhaven.

Will a monster set consume an element just to perform a standalone ability, like a Night Demon's invisible self?

Yes. If consuming the element enables an ability of its own, the set consumes it to perform that ability even if none of them moves or attacks that turn.

When a monster ability card infuses or consumes a wild element, who picks the element, and is it once per monster?

The party picks the element, and it happens once for the whole monster set, not once per monster.

Can a figure infuse an element that is already strong or waning, and do characters and monsters share the element board?

Yes to both. Everyone uses the same element board. Infusing an element that is already strong or waning simply sets it to strong at the end of that figure's turn, and whoever acts while it is strong or waning can consume it.

Can I consume a waning element and infuse the same element on the same turn?

Yes. Anything strong or waning at the start of your turn can be consumed, and your own infusions only take effect at the end of your turn. So you can use a waning element and then leave it strong, and a mandatory infusion on your first action never blocks a consumption on your second.

Can an end-of-turn effect (like the Geminate's Harvest the Essence) consume an element I infused this turn?

No. Your infusions don't become strong until the very end of the turn, after your end-of-turn abilities, so only elements that were already strong or waning when your turn started can be consumed.

Can I consume an element for extra movement partway through a move, after seeing what a door reveals?

Yes. An element consumption that boosts a move can be used during the move, even after you've used up the base movement. Moves don't follow the attack rule of committing before the modifier draw.

When do I have to decide to consume an element for an attack bonus?

Before you draw the attack modifier. Whatever comes before the colon of an element consumption is a cost, so you pay it and commit to the bonus before seeing the card.

Can I consume an element for a bonus if I can't perform the ability it modifies?

No. You only consume for an added effect while performing the ability, so you need a valid target for an attack or other targeted ability, can't be immobilized for a move, and can't be disarmed for an attack. You can still pay to add a target when no extra target turns out to be available.

Do I infuse an action's element if I don't perform any of its abilities?

No. You must perform at least one ability of the action to infuse its element, and the same goes for its other mandatory effects; a mandatory box doesn't override that.

Does a persistent ability with an element infusion (like the Coral's tide cards) infuse the element every round?

No. The element is infused once, when you perform the action and the card goes to your active area. It is only infused again if the persistent text itself says so.

Can I consume one element for several abilities in the same turn?

No. Consuming moves the element to inert immediately, and the same element can't be consumed more than once in a single turn. Only monsters of the same set share a single consumption.

If a scenario keeps an element permanently strong, can it be consumed more than once in a turn?

No. An always-strong element counts as strong at the start of every figure's turn, but no figure can consume the same element twice in one turn. This applies to the Scenario 60 boss and to similar rules such as Scenario 104.

If an attack modifier card shows two or three element icons, do I infuse all of them?

Separate element icons mean you infuse all of them. Two elements drawn inside a single border are a mixed element, which means you pick one.

Is an element infusion on an attack modifier card optional?

Yes. A character can always choose whether to apply a modifier card's added effects after drawing it, including its infusion.

Does an element-consumption bonus on a multi-target attack apply to every target?

Yes. The element is consumed once and the bonus modifies the whole attack ability, so every target of that ability gets it.

Who consumes the element for a granted ability's consumption bonus?

The figure granting the ability. One consumption covers every figure the ability is granted to, and the granter gains any experience tied to it (for example, the Boneshaper's Dark Tidings boosting all summons).

If an ability shows several element consumptions, must I consume all of them?

Only if they are shown together in one consumption. Separate consumptions (on separate lines or bubbles) are independent: activate any, all or none, each giving its own bonus and experience. Consumptions in an action's upper-left corner must all be paid to perform the action at all.

Can I push or pull an enemy fewer hexes than the push or pull value, or skip it entirely?

Yes. When a character pushes or pulls, the character picks both the direction and the distance, anywhere from zero up to the listed value, and the forced movement can be skipped altogether. Only when a monster pushes or pulls you must the full distance be used.

When a monster pushes or pulls my character, can we choose a path that moves me less than the full distance?

No. The party picks the direction, but the target has to be moved as far as the push or pull allows, judged over the whole path, so you can't steer into a wall or obstacle to cut it short if another legal path goes further. Monsters also count the extra hexes that icy terrain would add when maximizing the distance.

Can one attack both push and pull the same target?

Yes. All the pushes on the attack combine into a single push and all the pulls into a single pull; you pick which one to resolve first and must finish it before starting the other. You can't alternate push, pull, push, but the two-step sequence can drag a target through the same hazardous hex twice.

Can I push or pull an ally, even if they agree to it?

No, not unless the ability explicitly lets you. Push and pull are negative abilities, and negative abilities can only target enemies by default, so a willing ally still can't be moved this way.

Does a push or pull that moves the target 0 hexes count as forced movement or trigger effects tied to it?

No. The target has to actually move at least one hex for it to count as forced movement, and any effect that depends on the push or pull (such as the Snowflake's Chilling Impact) only happens if it moved at least one hex.

Does a push or pull have to go in a straight line?

No. Each hex the target enters just has to be farther from you by range for a push, or closer for a pull. The path can bend, slide along a wall, or go around one, as long as every step meets that rule; a pull ends as soon as no hex would bring the target closer.

Can I push or pull an enemy through other monsters?

Yes. Forced movement follows the target's own movement rules, and monsters can move through their allies, so a pushed monster can pass through other monsters (it still can't end in an occupied hex). It cannot be moved through your characters or summons, which are its enemies, unless it is flying.

Do I need line of sight to every hex I push or pull an enemy into?

No. Line of sight only matters when you target the enemy; once targeted, the push or pull may carry it out of your line of sight.

Does pushing or pulling an enemy into difficult terrain use up 2 hexes of the push?

No. Push and pull ignore difficult terrain, so every hex costs one point of the forced movement.

Can I push an enemy into a trap or hazardous hex that another figure is standing in, if the damage will kill the pushed enemy?

Yes, as long as that hex is the last hex of the push or pull and only one figure will be left there afterwards, so the pushed enemy must be certain to die. The figure already standing there can't be one of your allies, since a monster can't enter its enemy's hex.

Is the extra hex from icy terrain forced movement, and can sliding open a door?

The slide takes on whatever kind of movement put you on the ice. If you moved onto the ice yourself, the slide is part of your move, and if it carries you into a closed door you must open it. If you were pushed or pulled onto the ice, the slide is still forced movement, which can never open a door.

If icy terrain would slide me into another figure, do I stop or keep going?

You stop. The extra hex never happens if it would put you into a hex with another figure, obstacle or objective, and an invisible enemy still counts as a figure that stops you. Passing through an ally who stands on ice is different: you entered the icy hex, so you slide on into the next hex if it is free.

Can I teleport across the gap between two map tiles, and how do I count the distance?

Yes, if the destination is revealed. Teleport ignores walls and the empty space between tiles; measure as if the hex grid continued across the gap (a spare corridor tile helps), but you can't end in the void. A tile that floats completely disconnected from the others is an unmeasurable distance away, so only a teleport that ignores distance can reach it.

Can I teleport into an occupied hex or onto an obstacle?

No. A teleport must end in a valid hex you could occupy, so occupied hexes and obstacles are out unless the ability explicitly swaps figures. You can teleport onto a closed door, which opens it, but not into an unrevealed room.

Can I teleport to the hex I'm already standing in, for example with the Deathwalker's Fluid Night?

Yes. Choosing your current hex is a legal teleport destination, so you can use Fluid Night's bottom for its damage prevention without actually changing position.

Does teleporting count as moving, for battle goals or effects that refer to movement?

No. Teleport is not a move ability and teleporting isn't movement, so it doesn't count toward goals like Slowpoke and can't be used to spend movement points on scenario effects that need them. Effects of entering the destination hex still apply.

Can I step out of my hex and back in, and does that count as performing a move?

Yes. With at least 2 movement and a free neighbouring hex you can leave and return, and that counts as a move because you entered a hex. What doesn't exist in Frosthaven is a Move 0: if you don't enter at least one hex, you haven't performed a move ability, so nothing that triggers on moving happens.

Does a jump that ends in difficult terrain cost an extra movement point?

No. Jumping ignores difficult and icy terrain completely, including in the hex where the jump ends. Traps and hazardous terrain in the last hex still take effect.

Is there a limit on how far or in which direction I can move with Jump?

No. Jump just modifies a move ability: you move up to your move value, changing direction freely, and ignore figures, obstacles, traps and terrain in every hex but the last. You still can't jump through walls.

Can I jump over some hexes and walk through others in the same move, or land partway through?

No. A move with Jump is one jump from start to finish. You may decline Jump, but then it is gone for that whole move ability, and stacking several jump effects on one move adds nothing. Separate move abilities that each have Jump are separate jumps, each landing in its own last hex. If an effect adds Jump partway through a move, it can't be dropped again.

Can a non-flying figure move through a flying enemy?

No. There's no separate air space above a hex: a flying figure occupies its hex like anyone else. Flying lets the flyer pass over enemies, but a non-flying figure can never move through an enemy, flying or not, unless it is jumping or the enemy is invisible to it.

Does a flying figure count as standing in water, hazardous or difficult terrain for card effects that check what a figure occupies?

Yes. Flying only stops terrain from affecting the flyer's movement and keeps it from springing traps or taking hazardous terrain damage; the figure still occupies that hex, so effects that care whether a figure is in water or on hazardous terrain still see it there.

Can figures move through objectives, or end a flying move on one?

Figures can't move through an objective, even an allied one, unless they jump or fly. Because objectives are figures, a flying figure also can't end its movement in an objective's hex; it can end on an obstacle, which is never a figure.

What counts as forced movement?

Push, pull, and any ability that teleports another figure or moves an enemy under your control are forced movement. Granting an ally a move, or boosting the movement an ally performs on its own turn, is not.

In what order are attack bonuses, x2 effects and the attack modifier card applied, and do two doublings stack?

All of the attack's own bonuses and penalties come first, in any order the attacker likes (for example Poison's +1, a +1 on a monster card, or a 'double your next attack' effect). The attack modifier card is applied after that, then the target's shield, then ward or brittle. Doubling effects multiply, so two of them quadruple the value: a monster with Attack 2 using 'Attack +1' that draws a x2 deals 6.

How do a x2 or a null interact with rolling attack modifiers?

A null anywhere among the modifiers you finally use makes the damage 0. A x2 can be slotted in at any point of the calculation, including last: Attack 3 with a rolling +1 and a x2 can come out as 7 or 8, your choice.

How does advantage or disadvantage work when rolling modifiers are drawn?

If the first card is rolling, keep drawing until a non-rolling card appears, then draw exactly one more and ignore any rolling icon on it. Compare those last two: with advantage you keep all the earlier rolling cards plus your pick of the two; with disadvantage you throw away the rolling cards and use the worse of the two. If the first card isn't rolling, the second card's rolling icon is simply ignored.

With advantage, does my character have to use the better attack modifier card?

No. A character with advantage may use either of the two compared cards. Only monsters automatically take the better one.

With disadvantage, how do I compare modifiers with effects, such as +1 Stun against +0 Stun, or a card whose effect can't do anything?

Every non-numeric effect counts as positive but undefined, so two different effects can't be compared and you must use the first card drawn. Identical effects can be compared, though, so +1 Stun beats +0 Stun. The rules don't ask whether an effect would actually work: a +0 with an element effect still counts as having a positive effect even if no element is available. The same logic makes the Geminate's x2 Brittle 'better' than a plain x2.

When comparing attack modifiers, is Push 3 better than Push 2?

Yes. Because a character may push fewer hexes than the value, Push 3 can do everything Push 2 can and more, so the comparison isn't ambiguous.

Do I have to keep drawing after a rolling modifier and apply every value I draw?

Yes. A rolling card always makes you draw again, and you must add up all the numeric values, though you choose the order. Only the added effects on the cards, such as conditions, pushes or elements, can be declined. With disadvantage the rolling cards are discarded instead.

How does Pierce work, and what happens with Attack 2 Pierce 1 against Shield 3?

Pierce works as in Gloomhaven: it lowers the target's shield by the pierce value for that attack, never below 0. Against Shield 3, Pierce 1 leaves Shield 2, so an Attack 2 deals nothing. A negative modifier lowers the attack value, not the pierce.

How many attack modifier cards do I draw for an area attack or a card with several separate attack abilities?

One per attack, meaning one per target. An area attack draws a separate modifier for each figure it hits, and an action with two attack abilities draws for each of them, whether they hit the same enemy or different ones (two cards each with advantage or disadvantage).

Does a bonus to 'one attack' or 'your next attack' (like the Heavy Sword or Tri-Corner Hat) apply to every target of an area or multi-target attack?

No. An attack is a single attack against one target, and a multi-target ability is several attacks. A bonus for one attack therefore helps only one of the targets.

If a persistent bonus uses a charge on each attack, does an area attack that hits two enemies use two charges?

Yes. Each target of a multi-target or area ability is a separate attack, so the bonus triggers and its token advances once per target (for example the Drifter's Crushing Weight or the Geminate's Hornbeetle Carapace).

Are the added effects on my attack modifier cards (heals, elements, pushes, pressure changes) mandatory?

No. Apart from the numeric modifier, a character may always decide after drawing whether to use the card's added effects, unless they are in a mandatory box.

If my attack kills the target, can an effect that places terrain or a trap relative to that target (on a modifier card or the attack itself) still be used?

Yes, as long as the effect is part of the attack ability: a modifier card or a rider with no ability line separating it from the attack. It works even if the target dies, which overturned an earlier ruling. A separate ability below a divider line that refers to the target needs the target to still be there.

When an attack both places an overlay (trap, hazardous or icy terrain) and pushes or pulls the target, which happens first?

You choose. Forced movement and other added effects all resolve after the attack, with no set order between them, so you can create the tile in the target's starting hex or after it has moved, or even place it and then push the target onto it.

If I draw a null, do the attack's other effects and element still happen?

Yes. The attack was performed even though it dealt no damage, so its conditions, forced movement and element infusion all still apply.

Is 'damage suffered' the damage dealt, and is it capped by the target's remaining hit points?

Damage dealt has no cap, but damage suffered is what actually comes off the figure after ward, brittle and negation, and it can't exceed the hit points the figure had left. Damage you negate, for example by losing cards, is 0 damage suffered. 'Would suffer' is different: it's counted after shield, ward and brittle but before anything is suffered, so it isn't capped.

How do Shield, Ward and Brittle interact, and are Ward or Brittle used up if Shield blocks all the damage?

Shield applies first, then Ward or Brittle. With Shield 2 and Ward against 6 damage you take 2 (6 minus 2, then halved). Ward and Brittle only trigger if at least 1 damage is left after Shield, so if Shield reduces it to 0 they stay. If Ward halves 1 damage down to 0, Ward was still used and is removed.

Is Brittle applied before or after the attack modifier card?

After. The order is attack bonuses, then the modifier card, then shield, then brittle or ward. An Attack 2 that draws +1 against a brittle target with no shield deals 6.

Do -1 cards that a scenario or item adds to my deck stay for the whole scenario?

Yes. They stay in your deck, are reshuffled like any other card, and are only removed at the end of the scenario. Only bless and curse cards leave the deck as they are drawn.

What happens if a figure gains a condition it already has, such as Bane or Invisible a second time?

A figure can only hold one instance of each condition, so the new one just resets the duration. A second Bane gained during your turn replaces the first and now goes off at the end of your next turn; this works the same for monsters.

How long does a condition that lasts 'until the end of the next turn' (Immobilize, Disarm, Muddle, Invisible, Strengthen) actually last?

Until the end of the affected figure's next turn. Gained before that figure acts this round, it ends when its turn ends this round; gained during its own turn, it lasts the rest of that turn and the whole next one. A condition given to a summon or another character follows that figure's turns, not yours.

Can I pay a 'condition self' cost (like the Geminate muddling itself) if I already have that condition?

Yes. Unless the card says otherwise, you can inflict a condition on yourself that you already have, which pays the cost and resets its duration, so the muddle lasts until the end of your next turn. Cards that require you not to have it say 'if you don't have' explicitly.

Can I target an enemy with a condition it is immune to?

Yes, unlike in Gloomhaven. The enemy doesn't gain the condition, but it still counts as targeted, which matters for effects like the Boneshaper's Bone Dagger or the Shackles' transfer abilities (the condition still leaves you).

Is Curse a negative condition a figure keeps, for battle goals like Tormentor?

Only for a moment. A figure targeted by Curse briefly has the condition, long enough for an item or immunity to block it, then the curse card goes into its deck and the condition is gone. So cursing an enemy that already has a condition counts when you do it, but curse cards sitting in a deck don't make a monster count as having a condition later.

Does immunity to Curse stop curse cards already in the deck from working?

No. Immunity only stops new curse cards being added to that figure's deck. A curse already in the deck still takes effect when drawn, for a boss immune to curse just like anyone else.

Does removing a summon that has a negative condition count as removing a negative condition from an ally?

No. Taking a summon off the map doesn't count as removing its conditions for any battle goal or effect.

Does damaging myself or a brittle ally count as removing a negative condition, for the Optimist battle goal for example?

Yes. Causing damage to yourself or to a brittle ally, which removes the Brittle, counts as you removing a negative condition.

If a figure has both Regenerate and Wound, which happens first at the start of its turn?

Regenerate, always. Its Heal 1 resolves first and removes the Wound before the Wound can deal damage; Regenerate's heal also removes Poison (healing nothing).

Do I lose Regenerate if I negate the damage by losing a card, or if Ward reduces it to 0?

No. Regenerate is only removed when you actually suffer damage, and in both cases you suffer none. Ward and Brittle are different: they apply before you choose to negate and are used up.

Which conditions does a heal remove, and does a Heal 0 or a heal on a poisoned figure still remove them?

Any heal removes Wound, Brittle, Bane and Poison, all at once, even a Heal 0 and even if Poison stops it from restoring hit points. It is not optional. No other negative conditions are removed by healing.

What can a stunned character still do?

Very little. A stunned figure can't perform any abilities, including ones granted or controlled by others, and can't use or trigger items. It still long rests normally if it declared one, Regenerate still heals it, bonuses already active (such as Retaliate or Shield) keep working, and end-of-turn looting still happens.

What does Impair stop, and can I use my armor against an attack that would impair me?

Impair stops a character using or triggering items, including passive items with a trigger like the Crude Helmet, though bonuses already gained stay. Against an attack that would impair you, you can still use items if you aren't impaired yet, because the condition only lands when the attack finishes.

Do area or 'target all' attacks hit invisible enemies, and what can still affect them?

Invisible figures can't be focused on or targeted by enemies, so no attack hits them, including area and target-all attacks. Non-targeted effects still work: 'enemies suffer damage' effects and placing terrain near them (such as the Algox Stormcaller's hazardous terrain) are unaffected.

Does attacking end Invisible, and does Invisible protect me from retaliate?

Attacking doesn't end Invisible; it only expires at the end of your next turn. It also doesn't stop retaliate damage when you attack, because retaliate isn't targeted.

When a bless or curse is added to an attack modifier deck, is the discard pile shuffled back in too?

No. Shuffle the card into the remaining draw pile only and leave the discards alone; the full reshuffle only happens at the end of a round in which a shuffle card was drawn.

If a bless or curse is drawn but not used because of advantage or disadvantage, is it still removed from the deck?

Yes. Every bless or curse card that is drawn returns to the supply, even the one whose value was ignored; they never go to the discard pile.

How many bless and curse cards are there, and are they shared between monsters and characters?

There are 10 bless cards shared by every deck, so once all 10 are in play further Bless has no effect. Curses come in two sets of 10: one for the monster deck and one for character and ally decks.

Can one attack add more than one curse, and does an area curse add a card for every target?

Yes. Curse cards in a deck aren't a condition you hold, so a deck can contain several. An area or multi-target attack with Curse adds one per surviving target (all into the monster deck if the targets are monsters), and an attack that curses twice adds two, as long as cards remain.

Do an attack's conditions apply if the attack kills the target or deals no damage?

They apply even if the attack deals 0 damage (for example on a null), but not if the target is killed or exhausted by it. So a curse on an attack that kills a summon doesn't go into your deck.

If a brittle character is hit by an attack that also inflicts Brittle, does the new Brittle apply?

Yes. The existing Brittle doubles the damage and is removed, and the attack's conditions are applied afterwards, so the target becomes brittle again.

Do bless and curse cards stay in a deck after the figure that added them dies, or when the party moves to a new room?

Yes. They remain until they are drawn or the scenario ends.

Does a standalone condition ability like 'Stun, Range 1' affect every enemy in range, and is it an attack?

Neither. Without 'all' or a Target value, a condition ability targets one figure, and since it has no attack icon it isn't an attack: no modifier is drawn and attack-only items don't apply. Monsters with such abilities pick their single target with the focus rules.

If I draw several heal modifiers in one attack, do they make one heal or several, and can I split them?

They form a single heal ability. You can put the whole amount on one ally, where it counts as one heal (so against Poison it only removes the Poison), or spread it as one heal affecting several allies, but you can't apply it as separate heals to the same ally.

Can I heal a figure that is already at full health, for example just to infuse the action's element?

Yes. Healing a figure at maximum hit points is allowed, so the heal is performed and the action's element is infused.

Does a Heal or other self-effect on an attack modifier card happen before or after the target's retaliate?

After. Abilities attached to an attack that aren't attack effects, such as a heal on yourself, are performed once the attack has fully resolved, retaliate included. Effects on the target such as conditions and push or pull do come before retaliate.

Can I skip the heal from a long rest or from Regenerate?

Yes. Both heals are optional, which matters when you want to stay damaged or keep a negative condition for some effect.

Does a Shield on an ability card protect me as soon as the cards are revealed?

No. A shield ability only takes effect when you perform it on your turn, since which top and bottom you use is only decided then. Shields from items or other sources follow their own timing.

Does retaliate damage trigger the attacker's own retaliate?

No. Retaliate is triggered by attacks, and retaliate damage isn't an attack or a targeted effect. A push from your attack is resolved before the target's retaliate, so you can push it out of range first.

How do multiple retaliate bonuses with different ranges combine?

They add together into one source of damage, but each one only applies within its own range. A melee attacker suffers all of them, while a ranged attacker within range 3 suffers only the retaliates that reach range 3.

Does retaliate damage from an attack I make count for a later 'if you suffered damage this turn' ability on the same card?

Yes. Retaliate resolves as part of the attack, before the next ability on the card is performed.

When can I end a persistent bonus or summon early, and where does the card go?

At any time, even on another figure's turn, except in the middle of resolving an ability, so you can't dismiss a summon partway through an enemy's attack to dodge its curse. The card goes to the lost pile if its action has a lost icon, otherwise to your discard pile, so dismissing a persistent loss early doesn't save it. Round bonuses can't be ended early at all.

What's the difference between 'adjacent allies gain Shield 1' and 'grant adjacent allies Shield 1'?

'Allies gain' is your bonus, acting like an aura: it only applies to allies who currently meet the condition, so an ally who moves away loses it. 'Grant' gives the ally the ability itself; once they perform it, it's theirs for the duration even if they walk away. Round effects with a range, such as 'all allies within range 3 this round', work as an aura in the same way.

Is there a limit on how many persistent or active cards I can have in play?

No. There's no cap on active bonus cards; if you run out of character tokens to track use slots, use any other marker.

Where can a summon be placed: on a loot token, a pressure plate, or terrain, and what if there isn't room for all of them?

In an empty hex adjacent to the summoner. Loot tokens, pressure plates, corridors and open doors don't stop a hex from being empty, but traps, treasure, obstacles and terrain tiles do. If there are fewer free adjacent hexes than summons, you still perform the ability and place as many as fit; with none free, nothing is summoned.

In what order do my summons act, and can I change it?

All of your summons act immediately before you, in the order they were summoned (left to right in your active area), and you can't rearrange them. A summon never takes a turn in the round it was summoned.

Do my summons still take their turns when I long rest?

Yes. A long rest is still your turn at initiative 99, and your summons act right before it.

What does a summon do if it can't find a focus?

You may have it move toward you instead of standing still. It moves as if it were trying to get into melee with you, using the normal monster movement rules.

Do character summons drop loot when killed, pick up loot, or open doors?

No to all three. Summons don't drop loot tokens, don't perform end-of-turn looting (they only loot with an ability that gives them Loot), and can't open doors, even with a move you grant them, unless a scenario rule says otherwise.

Do my summon's kills count as my kills for battle goals, quests and abilities?

Yes. Summons pass kill credit to their summoner, so their kills count for battle goals, personal quests and kill-tracking abilities, and a Boneshaper's summons looting counts as the Boneshaper looting.

Do my summon's attacks count as me attacking, for battle goals or scenario effects?

No. A summon's attack is the summon's, not yours, even when you granted it the attack. Only the kill credit passes to you, so goals that need you to attack, or scenario effects that punish characters who attacked, ignore summon attacks.

Which attack modifier deck do my summons use, and where do blesses or curses aimed at them go?

Your deck. Summons draw from their summoner's deck, so a curse or bless on a summon is shuffled into your deck, and blessing two of your summons adds two blesses to it. You decide the added effects of any card a summon draws, and class-specific effects always benefit you.

When I grant a move or attack, who decides how it is performed?

If the recipient is your summon or a scenario ally, you decide: where it moves and whom it attacks, without monster focus rules (you still can't change the order of its abilities). If it's another player's character, that player decides how to use the granted ability.

Can I grant an ability to a summon in the same round I summoned it?

Yes. The rule that new summons don't act that round only covers their own turn; performing a granted ability isn't taking a turn.

Can I grant an attack or move to a summon that is disarmed or immobilized?

No. A disarmed figure can't perform attacks and an immobilized one can't move, granted or not. Those conditions usually end at the end of the summon's next turn, which comes just before yours, so by your turn they are often gone.

Do I need to be adjacent to my summon, or have line of sight, to grant it an ability?

You don't need to be adjacent, and there's no range limit unless one is shown, but a Grant is a targeted ability, so you need line of sight to the summon.

What's the difference between granting a summon or monster 'Attack 5' and 'Attack +1'?

Both keep the figure's own attack traits, such as poison on all attacks or extra targets. 'Attack X' is always a melee attack at exactly that value and can be granted to a figure with no attack stat. 'Attack +X' adds to the figure's own attack, can't be given to a figure without an attack stat, and for a summon keeps any range the summon always has (for a monster it is melee).

Can summons gain conditions, and can I strengthen or heal them with ally abilities?

Yes. Summons are figures and your allies, so ally-targeting heals and positive conditions work on them, and enemies can give them negative conditions unless they're immune. The one exception is Impair, which only characters can gain. Summons are not characters, so effects that name characters skip them.

Does dismissing my own summon trigger its 'when this dies' effect?

No. Removing a summon isn't killing it; on-death effects only happen when it dies from damage or from an effect that kills it.

Where does a summon's card go when the summon dies?

Wherever its action's icons say: to the lost pile if it has a lost icon, otherwise to your discard pile. Several Frosthaven summon actions aren't losses, so those cards are simply discarded.

Can I summon while disarmed or stunned?

Disarm only stops attack abilities, so you can still summon, move, heal and grant. Stun stops all of your abilities, summoning included, but your summons already on the map act normally.

How do scenario allies act, and which attack modifier deck do they use?

Unless the special rules give you control, scenario allies follow the monster rules: they move toward an enemy as if for a melee attack and heal the most-damaged figure in range, so you can't make them hold back. They use the separate ally attack modifier deck (your summons use yours), and when that deck is cursed it takes the character curses.

What does it mean when a scenario ally or figure 'can't be interacted with'?

It occupies its hex: its allies can move through it but its enemies can't. It can't be targeted, damaged or focused on, it is affected by obstacles, icy and difficult terrain but doesn't treat traps or hazardous terrain as negative hexes and never springs them, and it doesn't count for anything that checks ally positions, such as Banner Spear formations, unless the scenario says so.

Can characters trade or give items to each other?

No. Items can't be transferred or traded between characters, as in Gloomhaven and unlike Jaws of the Lion; a freshly looted item stays with the character who looted it. To pass an item on, one character sells it and the other buys it once buying is possible. The exceptions are a newly brewed potion, which the brewer may hand to another party member, and a duplicate of an item you already own.

Can I use an item found in a treasure chest or from a random item loot card right away if it puts me over my item limit?

Yes. An item gained during the scenario can be used for the rest of that scenario even beyond your slot limits. It is yours permanently, but from the next scenario on you can only bring what your limits allow.

If a random or treasure item adds -1 modifier cards, do I have to equip it and add them?

No. Leaving it unequipped is allowed. Equip it and you must add its -1 cards, unless you have a perk that ignores negative item effects.

When we replay a scenario whose random item we already looted, does the random item card go back in the loot deck?

No. A scenario's random item can only be gained once: you tick its box in the loot table when you get it (even in a scenario you then lose), and from then on you leave that card out of the loot deck.

Which deck do I draw from for a random item loot card or treasure?

The random item deck, the purple-backed cards with gold costs, not the general item supply. The blue-backed deck is random item blueprints, which unlock items for crafting instead.

What happens if I gain an item I already own or that I can't otherwise get?

For a looted duplicate the rulebook says to give it to another character or sell it right away, and the official FAQ widened the selling rule to any item a character gains but cannot have, for any reason. If a treasure's item has no copy left to take, you get its sale value instead.

Can I use an item in the middle of my move or attack?

Only if using the item isn't an ability itself. Items that only make sense during a move or attack (extra movement, a bonus to that attack, a reaction to an incoming attack) can be used mid-ability. Items that perform their own ability, such as healing, dealing damage, destroying an obstacle, or giving a round-long or persistent bonus like 'Jump on all your moves this turn', must wait until your current ability is finished. This overrides the Gloomhaven FAQ.

Can I use the Frosthaven Winged Shoes partway through a move when I suddenly need to jump?

No. Using Winged Shoes is an ability, so it can't interrupt another ability. Use them before the move, and every move ability you perform afterwards that turn gains Jump. Only the older Gloomhaven version adds Jump mid-movement.

Which items must I use when their trigger happens, and which are optional?

Items with use slots and items with a passive effect must be used whenever their requirement is met, even if they do nothing useful, as when armor gives disadvantage to an attacker that already has it. Items that are simply spent, lost or flipped are optional, and you choose when (and in what order) to use them, for example among several shields until the damage reaches 0.

When do I have to use an item that affects an attack?

Before the attack modifier is drawn, for any item that changes the attack itself (a bonus, an added effect, advantage or disadvantage, range or targets); for a multi-target attack, range and target items must be used before the ability starts. Items that react to damage you suffer, or that explicitly trigger 'when' a modifier is drawn, are used afterwards.

How does an item that changes a monster's attack modifier (like a Crude Helmet) work when the monster has advantage or disadvantage?

Apply the item to the cards before deciding which card the monster uses, so the item's change can affect which card counts as better or worse. This reverses a Gloomhaven FAQ ruling.

Can I use my items, like Crude Boots or a Spyglass, to boost a move or attack I grant to an ally or summon?

No. A granted ability is performed by the figure that receives it, so items that modify your abilities don't apply. Items that refer to 'you' don't affect your summons unless they explicitly say so. A character who receives a grant can use their own items on it.

When another character grants me a move or attack outside my turn, which of my items can I use?

Items that trigger during a move or attack work, since you are performing the ability. Items worded 'during your turn' don't, because it isn't your turn. Volatile Boots, for example, can boost a granted move and still be used on your own turn before flipping at its end.

Do range items like the Crude Bow or Well-Strung Bow work with area-of-effect or multi-target ranged attacks?

It depends on the wording. An item that adds range to a single attack, like the Crude Bow, can boost one target of a Target X attack but not a red-hex area attack. An item that raises the range of all your ranged attacks, like the Well-Strung Bow, extends the whole ability, including where an area pattern can be placed. An area attack without a grey hex is a ranged attack.

What can the Ember Energy Source (item 244) increase?

Only a value already printed on the ability. It can't give a melee attack range (melee has no printed range) or add a Target to a single-target attack, and it doesn't boost '+X' bonuses or summon stats. It modifies one instance of one ability, so a repeated or persistent ability doesn't keep the boost.

Can I recover an item with several use slots before all of them are used?

Yes. Unlike Gloomhaven, a partly used multi-use item can be recovered, for example by a long rest, and its token goes back to the first slot.

Can I use an item during my long rest turn and then refresh it with the same rest?

Yes. A long rest is a turn, and you can use items before the rest's steps and then recover them; recovered items can even be used again that turn. Flexible Slippers are the exception, because end-of-turn looting comes after the refresh.

Is a lost or consumed item gone for good?

No. It is unusable for the rest of that scenario (unless recovered), but every item returns to its normal state at the end of the scenario, even before a force-linked follow-up. No item can ever be permanently lost.

Which side does a flip item start on?

The side that shows its gold or crafting cost. For a flip item with no cost on either side, start on the side that doesn't have the item number, since item numbers are printed on card backs.

How do the Flexible Slippers (item 006) work: can I loot an empty adjacent hex, or use them when my own hex is empty?

Your end-of-turn looting happens in the adjacent hex you pick instead of your own, and neither hex needs to contain anything, so you can also use them to avoid picking up loot. If you were stunned or impaired before your turn, that condition expires at the same time as end-of-turn looting, so you can let it expire first and still use them. You can't use them during a long rest and then recover them with it, because end-of-turn looting comes after the refresh.

Do items that trigger after moving 4 or more hexes (like Horned Helm or Endurance Footwraps) trigger more than once per turn?

No, at most once per turn. Hexes from several move abilities in the same turn add together toward the 4, but moving further only adds to the 'or more'.

Can I leave enemies out when using Tome of Life (item 218)?