Kerry Bruce
United States
California
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We hit a very nitty-gritty little ruling trouble last night. Haunt 35, in the Traitor's Tome, when it describes how the cat works, it says that anytime it defeats a player, it "plays cat-and-mouse" with them for a turn, and then eats them at the beginning of the next monster turn. Well, since the Heroes' book doesn't say they can't attack the cat, one of the Heroes tried to do so, and was summarily crushed by the might of the feline.
The question is, does the hero then get eaten at the beginning of the monster turn, without a chance to escape, or does the cat playing with its prey only start on its turn, thus giving the hero another turn of survival and her chance at not being eaten? We played it out like she got eaten without a chance for escape, but later decided that was probably wrong. Any ideas on this?
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Kerry Bruce
United States
California
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Aw, but I really like overthinking things. I'm a Magic: the Gathering player at my core, so that comes to me naturally. =)
The way it was worded in the Traitor's Tome suggests that the contest is what happens after the player has already been caught (which requires the cat to have defeated the player in an attack roll in the first place) and on that player's turn. So I don't see any inference that the Hero can't attack it normally, because it needs to attack the player to catch it in the first place. The player could, feasibly, want to attack the cat preemptively to stun it (which requires a lot of faith in their own Might score >=D). But, it complicates the whole "play cat-and-mouse for a turn" thing because the rules seem to assume that will happen from one monster turn to the next, not from a Hero's turn to ????.
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Michael Z
Australia
Cairns
QLD
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I think it is deliberately risky on the part of the hereos to attack the cats.
The heroes only hope is that another hero attacks the cat before the monster has a turn to stun it.
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